The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Consider this your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s ever heard of: the Pushkin Prizes, created to honor the giants of the American education system. This year, Malcolm is celebrating one prominent university that decided to play the US News & World Report at its own dirty rankings game—and smeared themselves in the process. Featuring an eagle-eyed math professor, our favorite data scientist, and the legend of one disgraced congressman.

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0:00.0	Pushing.
0:07.0	Hello, hello everyone, Gather round.
0:12.7	Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:14.2	If you're a fan of my show, Revisionist History, then you know my deep and abiding obsession
0:19.2	with American higher education.
0:21.1	How it's broken, how it can be fixed.
0:24.3	Over our next couple of episodes, we dive into this topic again.
0:29.3	And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry.
0:33.3	And the other gives me hope.
0:36.3	Listen to Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts, and you can always get
0:41.2	our shows early and at-free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus.
0:58.3	And the Oscar goes to...
1:00.3	And the People's Choice Award goes to...
1:04.3	Thank you to the Academy for this incredible recognition.
1:08.3	I'm so honored.
1:10.3	I'm so honored.
1:12.3	Everybody wants to know what I would do if I didn't win.
1:19.3	I guess we'll never know.
1:24.3	Everybody gets a prize in modern America, actors, writers, musicians.
1:31.3	But you know who doesn't get a fancy prize?
1:34.3	The hardworking administrators of America's elite colleges and universities.
1:40.3	For years I've observed this oversight with what can only be described as dismay.
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