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They are run by the Aurea Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Peter Munk, founder of mining company Barrick Gold, and his wife Melanie Munk. The debate series was founded in 2008 by Munk and Rudyard Griffiths, who moderates most of the debates. The Munk debates are held in Toronto, at steadily larger venues as they have proven popular.
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. [2] He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.
Talking to Strangers studies miscommunication, interactions and assumptions people make when dealing with those that they don't know. To make his point, Gladwell covers a variety of events and issues, including the arrest and subsequent death of Sandra Bland; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's interactions with Adolf Hitler; the sex abuse scandal of Larry Nassar; the Cuban mole Ana ...
The two squared off against non-fiction author Malcolm Gladwell and New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg, who made the case for continued trust in the mainstream media.
Rudyard Griffiths (born 1970) is a Canadian author, television broadcaster, and philanthropic adviser. [1] [2] [3] He has been a columnist at the National Post, Toronto Star and The Hub [4] and a television anchor on CTV News Channel and the Business News Network.
The author revisits his 2000 bestseller "The Tipping Point," to examine the flip side of that earlier book's lessons about studying social change. Among the topics he covers: Cheetah reproduction.
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The debate, moderated by Politico and FOX 11 Los Angeles at the University of Southern California campus, featured the four top candidates in a recent Politico/Morning Consult poll.