'Tipping Point' Author Reveals That He Is at Heart, a Coward

You may remember the seminal book, "The Tipping Point," economist Malcolm Gladwell's ground-breaking treatise about marketing and how people's brains work. It was a remarkable tome, and I highly recommend it.

Unfortunately, however, the author turns out to be yet another sheep in the mindless culture wars thrown at us by the always aggrieved left. While I give credit to Gladwell for finally admitting how he went so very wrong, I can't help but slam him for his subservient bow to the Woke Mind Virus. Why were so many of us crying out while so many big voices remained silent?

Some laud him for finally admitting that biological males beating up women in sports is fundamentally wrong, but I wonder about his stance in the first place. I believe in forgiveness, but dude—what the hell were you thinking?

🚨 Malcolm Gladwell says “trans athletes have no place in the female category.”

He admits he was cowed into saying that it was ok.

He knows it’s not.

He was bullied into it and he’s ashamed that he gave in.

Good for him. Mad props. pic.twitter.com/GGm1oCiNbv
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) September 2, 2025

The 62-year-old admitted that he gave his opinions under duress from the leftist, Marxist cancel crowd:

"If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction," Gladwell said. "And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don't think there's any question."
Gladwell said he regretted his 2022 appearance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where he moderated a panel discussing the "path forward for the inclusion" of transgender athletes in sports.

Sounds good now, Mr. Gladwell—but where were you back in the day, when so many of us were fighting against the insanity we were seeing on a daily basis? You were a coward in the moment, which is how societies die.

He admitted that he was silent on the subject: “They’re not asking for a place at the table, they’re not asking to be treated with respect and dignity. What they’re asking is for no one to question their considerable physiological advantage they bring to the sport,” Gladwell said.

“I heard that and thought, ‘This is nuts,’ and yet I didn’t say anything.”

No shoot, Sherlock. We've been sounding the alarm for years. As the famous saying goes, "Silence creates its own violence.”

Malcom Gladwell says he is “ashamed” of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women’s sports. He says he was “cowed” into saying so.

“Trans athletes have no place in the female category,” he says. pic.twitter.com/AjeKUJVPYD
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) September 2, 2025

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I applaud Malcom Gladwell for his reawakening, and as I’ve said has written some great books—but this is terrifying. It shows us how a mind—a great thinker—can be sucked into such a toxic zeitgeist. It’s this kind of mindless obeisance that led to Nazi Germany and so many other stains on humanity.

Thank you for asking the questions, Mr. Gladwell—but where were you when it mattered?

Progressive policies have hurt America immeasurably.

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