Malcolm Gladwell joins Amna Nawaz for our 'Settle In' podcast
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally, from us, settle in with author Malcolm Gladwell, who says he doesn't trust people who don't change their minds. |
| 0:07.0 | He recently sat down with Amna Nawaz for our new video podcast to discuss that and revisit his first book, The Tipping Point, 25 years later. |
| 0:15.0 | I wanted to ask you about this because this has really stood out to me about you and the way you talk about your work |
| 0:21.0 | and the way you are willing to revisit your own work and to say, I got something wrong. |
| 0:27.3 | And the crime example, as you've mentioned, I know you wrote about the tipping point |
| 0:30.8 | that the broken windows policing policies in New York where the idea that little crimes |
| 0:35.4 | could be tipping point for big crimes. |
| 0:38.0 | And we know over time now years later how that led to very harmful policing policies like |
| 0:43.0 | stop and frisk and disproportionately targeting black and brown people. |
| 0:46.3 | And you have come out since then and said, we were wrong. |
| 0:50.0 | I was part of that and I'm sorry. |
| 0:53.1 | And it was so striking to me to have someone with your kind of platform and voice say something |
| 0:58.1 | like that so definitively. |
| 0:59.9 | So I wondered if you tell me a little bit about what fed that decision and how hard that |
| 1:04.3 | was to come out and say, I was wrong. |
| 1:06.9 | Well, it wasn't hard at all. |
| 1:10.0 | No? |
| 1:11.6 | Because I do it all time. |
| 1:12.6 | If you knew me, you would know that my wife is always like, she's, she, I so consistently |
| 1:19.5 | change my mind on things, she's looking at me and she's like, because I'll express an opinion. |
| 1:25.0 | And she'll be like, well, you could change your mind tomorrow. |
| 1:28.2 | And I go, yeah, actually. |
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