The Sunday Magazine for November 3, 2024
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay:
The race for the White House enters its final stretch
After a charged and surprising campaign, Americans are set to pick a new president on Tuesday. And in a contest that appears so close, many voters are bracing for possible chaos after election day. Piya Chattopadhyay reconvenes our U.S. Election Panel – Washington Post White House bureau chief Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa, Wall Street Journal senior political correspondent Molly Ball and former CBC Washington correspondent Keith Boag – to break down the final stretch in the race for the White House.
What viral he-man health hacks really reveal about masculinity
Is there a crisis of masculinity? If you look at social media and even the political arena, many signs point to yes. And the solution? Some promise it can be found in a multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry that has transcended Gwyneth Paltrow-style holistic health habits... to include alpha male he-man hacks. Timothy Caulfield is an author, health researcher and science communicator. He joins Piya Chattopadhyay to dispel some of the myths he encountered by entering the "manosphere" for his new documentary Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
Malcolm Gladwell returns to The Tipping Point – this time, from a darker side
When Malcolm Gladwell released his debut book The Tipping Point in 2000, only three people showed up to his first publicity event. But it didn't take long for the Canadian journalist's exploration of social epidemics and their impacts to catch fire... and soon, reach its own tipping point in the zeitgeist. Nearly 25 years later, Gladwell has returned to his seminal work – this time, from a darker perspective. At a recent on-stage event hosted by the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, Chattopadhyay spoke with Gladwell about his latest book Revenge of the Tipping Point, in which he warns that the same tools we have used to make positive social changes can also be used to thwart them.