Malcolm Gladwell is in the business of proving everybody and everything wrong. Using copious research, relentless reasoning and polished prose,...
In his latest book, “David and Goliath,” best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell talks about an experiment in Brooklyn, New York City, that has been going on for the past six years. In 2003, when a former police officer, Joanne Jaffe, took over as head of the Housing Bureau, she realized her job would take more than constructing buildings for shelter.
Malcolm Gladwell says the craziest things. The frizzy-haired New Yorker staff writer became a best-selling author by advocating the counter-intuitive.
Today’s gospel from Luke 16: 10-13 is part of an entire passage, verses 1 to 13, which is the long form of the prescribed Gospel. The first part is about the sly and shrewd man who did something “bad” and yet was used as a good example by Christ. The opening of the short form of the Gospel says: “The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones.”
