Grio100 Malcolm Gladwell – author and pop-sociologist
By Talia Whyte
Malcolm Gladwell has made a career for himself – as well as a lot of money – thinking aloud of the untold back-stories to many political and cultural institutions. For example, this curious journalist recently examined Atticus Finch, the white lawyer played by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. While most film historians consider Finch to be one of the greatest on-screen heroes, Gladwell argued that the character was an example of “the limits of Southern liberalism” during the story’s time period, and that Finch was not the racial justice activist as he’s been seen historically.
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