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Hallelujah
How does genius emerge?
McDonald’s Broke My Heart
They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away.
Divide and Conquer
The complete, unabridged history of the world’s most controversial semicolon.
A Polite Word for Liar
What could possibly go wrong?
Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis
The one song The King couldn’t sing.
Tempest in a Teacup
Malcolm tells the real story on what happened in Boston on the night of December 16, 1773
Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah
You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong. There’s two.
A Good Walk Spoiled
Rich people and their addiction to golf: a philosophical investigation.
Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight
In the battles over gun rights, a 17th century English nobleman has taken center stage.
Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge
The justices of the Supreme Court may have watched too much gun smoke growing up…
Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson
Malcolm goes to a shooting range in North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15.
Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard
Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968. Today, would he have lived?
Guns Part 5: The Footnote
In a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.
Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care”
At the end of our series, we offer a lesson on the obligations and costs of compassion.
Board Game Season
How life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love and ... farming
Lord of the Rankings
US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best universities.
Project Dillard
Part two of a two-part series.
The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion
This your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s heard of: the Pushkin Prizes
Welcome to Development Hell
The untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page.
Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell
A failed vampire love story, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Prius and an unexpected turn.
The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell
Why did Gary and Angus have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation?
Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell
The story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop.
The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell
A masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.
I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell
Between her big hits, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog.
Labour of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell
In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.
Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell
Cameron tells the story behind “Blue Seattle” for the very first time.
In Triplicate
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat.
Star Struck
A pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.
“I Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me”
Do we underestimate the value of ordinary acts of kindness?
Outliers, Revisited
Revisionist History runs a mysterious experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hitler's Olympics
Introducing... Hitler's Olympics
Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics
