Coming Soon: Season Two
15 Apr 2021
1m
Pushkin Industries · History
The Last Archive
The Last Archive is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. The show is written & hosted by Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, and was created by the historian Jill Lepore. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
Episodes
Election Special
22 Oct 2020
24m
Tomorrowland
16 Jul 2020
48m
For the Birds
09 Jul 2020
46m
She Said, She Said
02 Jul 2020
41m
The Computermen
25 Jun 2020
41m
Cell Strain
18 Jun 2020
45m
Project X
11 Jun 2020
42m
Unheard
04 Jun 2020
39m
The Invisible Lady
28 May 2020
37m
Detection of Deception
21 May 2020
46m
The Clue of the Blue Bottle
14 May 2020
42m
AI processedThe 1919 murder of Lucina Broadwell in Barre, Vermont, serves as a lens to examine the evolution of evidence and the nature of truth. While the case was initially treated as a standard criminal investigation, the conviction of George Long relied less on objective facts and more on the social stigma surrounding reproduc...
Introducing The Last Archive
30 Apr 2020
3m
AI processedThe erosion of objective truth in American society stems from a century-long historical shift in how evidence and facts are perceived. Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, investigates this "truth problem" by examining archival records ranging from mid-century congressional debates on vaccine s...
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