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Would somebody send Gladwell back to cool-hunting?

In the current New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell proffers what he calls (at his blog) a “semi-defense of Enron.” Insofar as “defense” implies an argument or justification for something, the article is nothing of the kind. Rather, it is a perfect specimen of the sort of fuzzy-headed, attention-mongering contrarianism that frequently pops up at Slate, and that has, for the past . . .

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