Who killed truth?
In The Last Archive, acclaimed historian Jill Lepore traces the history of evidence, proof, and knowledge, in troubled epistemological times. From archives and libraries to interrogation rooms and evidence vaults, Lepore takes listeners around the country--and across the passage of time--in search of an answer to the question: Who killed truth? Season One begins with a murder in northern Vermont in 1919, and ends in Silicon Valley in 2020. Produced in the style of classic 1930s radio drama, The Last Archive is a show about how we know what we know and why it seems, lately, as if we don’t know anything at all.
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Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she writes about politics, history, law, and literature. Her dozen books include These Truths: A History of the United States, cited as “nothing short of a masterpiece” by NPR, and, out this fall, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future. A winner of the Bancroft Prize, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Magazine Award, and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize. She’s also a long-time fan of all manner of radio plays, and a particular devotee of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the Air.
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