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Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders

Pushkin Industries
Weekly podcast. Next episode on Thursday.

Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more, stretching across decades and leaving no one untouched — victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and those just trying to help. Eventually, the consequences lead to the center of a hot national debate on who should be allowed to live, who should die, and how the state should kill them.

On The Alabama Murders, Malcolm Gladwell asks: why, in our efforts to alleviate suffering, do we so often make it worse?

Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

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177 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
S14 E2·
October 2
October 2
33 mins
S14 E1·
October 2
October 2
32 mins
Season 14 Trailer
The Alabama Murders
Season 14 Trailer·
September 22
September 22
4 mins
S13 E17·
August 14
August 14
1h 18m
S13 E16·
July 24
July 24
40 mins
S13 E15·
July 17
July 17
53 mins
S13 E14·
July 10
July 10
43 mins
S13 E13·
July 3
July 3
38 mins

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