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Sailer: ‘The Fading of the Gladwell Era’

August 22, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Steve Sailer writes on the fading “10,000 hour” fad, which he aptly calls “middlebrow,” an word criminally underused since the end of the Cheever/Updike era.

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