Malcolm Gladwell
October 28, 2022
Malcolm Gladwell explores Mennonite history in podcast
Duane Stoltzfus, chair of the communication department, received an email on Feb. 7 with the subject line, “question from a journalist.” It was from Malcolm Gladwell, renowned journalist and podcast host of “Revisionist History,” which Gladwell describes as “things overlooked and misunderstood.” He was planning a series of episodes about the Minnesota Starvation Experiments. In the early 1940s, conscientious objectors were faced with a dilemma. By definition and principle, they could not morally justify going to war. But the war was precisely where their country was headed. “By World War II,” Stoltzfus said, “We had the Quakers, Brethren and Mennonites...