Season 4

In season 4 of The Last Archive, host Ben Naddaff-Hafrey digs into the history of truth in 20th century America. These six stories trace a history of how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes lately as if we don’t know anything at all. Through gripping narratives about the history of automation, the forgotten origins of social network theory, invasive species panics, freelance wiretappers, sci-fi family histories, and time travel, The Last Archive Season 4 is a thrilling look at the history of knowledge.

 

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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she writes about politics, history, law, and literature. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, her dozen books include These Truths: A History of the United States, cited as “nothing short of a masterpiece” by NPR, and, her latest, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, longlisted for the National Book Award.

Photo credit: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University

 

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