. >> malcolm gladwell what's your new book about? >> it's called "david and goliath" underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants and it's about underdogs. i got really interested in telling the stories of people who seem weak and powerless and yet go on to accomplish great things. and that was a puzzle of how they managed to do that i thought was worthy of a book ,-com,-com ma and so this is my latest. >> back in 09 you 09 you wrote a piece for "the new yorker." david versus goliath and i will let you tell the story but is that when your interest started? >> yeah although i would say nothing in that article that i wrote for "the new yorker" made its way into the book but it is what got me thinking about it. it was an article i wrote about a guy starting with the guy who is an indian immigrant living in silicon valley and starts to coach his daughter's basketball team. they're all 12, 13 and they are all the daughters of silicon valley and they can't pass, shoot, dribble. they can do anything that resembles basketball so he deci

more with malcolm gladwell when we come back. with drivers from the coca-cola racing family. coca-coca family track walks give thousands of race fans the chance to get out, get moving, and have fun... all along the way. it's part of our goal to inspire more than three million people to rediscover the joy of being active this summer. see the difference all of us can make... together. >>> and we are back with malcolm gladwell, who wants college students to start boycotting football games. how can institutions of higher learning devoted to the building up of the human mind be at the same time encouraging a sport that we now know, he says, destroys the human brain. you gave a speech at the university of pennsylvania that's become a kind of youtube sensation. >> what level of proof do we need -- >> what did you say in that speech? >> well, i was invited to give this talk to the undergraduates about the subject of proof. and so i gave a talk which said how much proof do we need about the dangers of some activity before we act? and my argument was that there are times when our deman

well, that's what malcolm gladwell wants colleges to do, shut down their football teams. why? case that is worth hearing. listen in to my conversation with the long-time "new yorker" staff writer and best-selling author of "the tipping point outliars" and the forthcoming book "david & goliath, underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants." malcolm gladwell, pleasure to have you on. >> it's good to be back. >> what got you interested in football? >> well, i -- i mean for starters, i'm a football fan. and so i have -- but recently i've become aware of how like many people, of how morally problematic being a football fan has become. >> why? what did you start noticing? >> well, i became -- all of this stuff on the neurological consequences -- potential neurological consequences of playing football has started to bubble up in the last couple of years and that adds to a whole series of other concerns that have been around for much longer, which is that playing football at an elite level, in college or at the pro level, has all kinds of long-term health consequences. we know fr

i cannot give up my canadian roots. >> malcolm gladwell when does david and goliath at the state's? >> the beginning october, october 1 of this year. >> this is booktv on c-span2 previewing the outcome gladwell's newest book david and goliath, october 2013 is when it hits the bookstores. thanks for watching booktv. >> anita raghavan talks about the rise and fall of the galleon group one of the largest hedge funds in the world. an insider trading scandal brought down the ferments several high-profile

. >> reporter: while events leading to this crash are unclear, malcolm gladwell made interesting pointshapter to south koreaial airline culture and a world of others. he sat down with fareed zakaria to explain. >> you found by and large koreans were very bad at being pilots. explain that. >> the overwhelming majority of crashes are the result of a breakdown in communication between the copilot and the pilot. something comes up, a situation emerges that requires those two pilots to be in open and honest communication, and they fail to do that. one person withholds information, one person doesn't share, whatever. >> the question becomes, gladwell argues, what is the role of culture in plane crashes. is it easier in some culture than others for a subordinate to speak candidly, even harshly. >> the answer is absolutely. >> in one study of the field of cultural psychology, south korea ranked second in the world for respect for authorities or what is called power distance. >> in 99% of cases, a beautiful and wonderful things, in the cockpit, it's a problem, right? and so you -- whenever you s

. >> malcolm gladwell when does david and goliath at the state's? >> the beginning october, october 1 of this year. >> this is booktv on c-span2 previewing the outcome gladwell's newest book david and goliath, october 2013 is when it hits the bookstores. thanks for watching booktv. >> anita raghavan talks about the rise and fall of the galleon group one of the largest hedge funds in the world. an insider trading scandal brought down the ferments several high-profile businessmen of -- this haut was hosted by the ages society in new york city. >> a little introduction to this wonderful friend of mine. anita raghavan. i first met her back in 1995. i was then coming to new york and looking around for stories to do and i decided to do a story on indian journalists who were rising in the mainstream is this press. at that time when i was interviewing all the people who had reached the top position someone said to me hey you know, there is this reporter you must meet at "the wall street journal." her name is anita raghavan and he described her as that brigh