The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight from Revisionist History
Deep Cover
Pushkin Industries
4.3 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly taken center stage. Who was he? What did he do that has — 300 years later — endeared him to a generation of legal scholars? Revisionist History explores the cult of personality around the mysterious Sir John Knight. Enjoy this episode from Revisionist History, another Pushkin Industries podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello listeners, Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:03.3 | Before this episode starts, I wanted to let you know that there is a month of new content |
| 0:08.2 | coming from Pushkin that you can hear early and ad-free. |
| 0:12.6 | Our team has exciting new shows and podcasts like a new series from my podcast Revisioness |
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| 1:06.7 | Pushkin |
| 1:11.6 | Hi deep cover listeners, it's Jake. Today I'm back in your feed to bring you an episode from Revisioness |
| 1:18.0 | History, another Pushkin podcast. This season on Revisioness History, Malcolm Gladwell is |
| 1:24.4 | diving into one of the most controversial corners in American life. Guns. The six episodes series |
| 1:31.3 | looks at America's gun problem through topics like TV Westerns, the assassination of Robert Kennedy |
| 1:37.4 | and the insanity of the Supreme Court. In the first episode Malcolm takes a close look at a name |
| 1:43.8 | that popped up in a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment, a 17th century |
| 1:49.9 | Englishman named John Knight. He'll discover who this man is and why so much about 21st century |
| 1:56.8 | American gun control hinges on his story. All right, here's the episode. You can binge listen to |
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| 2:10.6 | pushkin.fm slash plus or hear the episodes weekly in the Revisioness History podcast feed. |
| 2:24.1 | It's 1686 in Bristol, a major port and manufacturing center on the southwest coast of England. |
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