From the 2011 New Yorker Festival: Malcolm Gladwell, after announcing that the topic of his talk will be the virtues of legitimacy rather than of obnoxiousness, blames a lack of legitimacy for much of the turmoil around the world.

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Malcolm Gladwell on The Virtues of Obnoxiousness The New Yorker Festival

Starring: Malcolm Gladwell