Revisionist History is a podcast by Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell, produced by Gladwell's company Pushkin Industries. It first aired on June 3, 2016 and () has aired thirteen seasons.
Gladwell, already a successful author and essayist, was convinced to create a podcast by his friend Jacob Weisberg, then editor-in-chief of The Slate Group. At that time Slate also operated the Panoply Media podcast network, who produced the first three seasons of the podcast. After Panoply announced that they would cease making podcasts in September 2018, he announced that he was co-founding a podcast production company with Weisberg named Pushkin Industries, which has produced the series since then.
Each episode begins with an inquiry about a person, event, or idea, and proceeds to question the received wisdom about the subject.
The season Development Hell interviewed notable screenwriters and film directors about a passion project which never came to fruition.
This season was titled Hitler's Olympics and talked about the antecedents to and controversies regarding the 1936 Summer Olympics, particularly focusing on how Hitler used the games as a mouthpiece for Nazi ideology.
The first part of this season was a miniseries titled The Tipping Point Revisited, in which Gladwell revisits his 2000 book The Tipping Point and looks at it from a new stance.
Revisionist History has received positive reviews from critics. In Podcast Review, Nic Dobija-Nootens called it "perplexing, frustrating, and always worth a second look". The New York Timess Amanda Hess praises the show's impact, crediting it for creating a "podcast micro-genre ⦠[of] history-bending show[s]".