ln The Naked t;:itadel, Susan Faludi provides a rich desc1iption of life in an alternate social structure-the military academy. Does Malcolm Gladwell's account help to explain why Shannon Faulkner...

ln The Naked t;:itadel, Susan Faludi provides a rich desc1iption of life in an alternate social structure-the military academy. Does Malcolm Gladwell's account help to explain why Shannon Faulkner wasn't welcomed into the academy? Did Faulkner's appearance cause the academy to "tip"? Does GladweU's theo1y have any predictive vaJue? That is, could it tell us, ahead of time, whether the academy would be u-:msfom1ed by being required to admit women?