Jill Lepore appears in the following:
The Unpopular Vote
Friday, October 25, 2024
The closest we ever came to abolishing the electoral college and why we probably never will.
More Perfect: The Gun Show
Friday, August 16, 2024
In 2008, the Supreme Court stepped in to settle our fight over the Second Amendment’s meaning. They did. And they didn’t.
Jill Lepore on the Past and Present, the Personal and Political
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Jill Lepore talks about her take on history and essay-writing and her new collection, The Deadline.
Rags to Riches Revisited
Friday, April 07, 2023
If America is supposed to be a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all, why do so many fall through the cracks?
The Science Fiction Origins of the Metaverse
Friday, April 29, 2022
What if Silicon Valley's tech moguls have been reading Sci-Fi wrong?
The Science Fiction Origins of the Metaverse
Friday, November 05, 2021
Many of Silicon Valley's words, products, and even ideologies come straight from science fiction. But what if they've been reading it wrong?
The Birth of the Modern Campaign
Friday, October 23, 2020
Political consulting and dirty tricks as we know them today can be traced back to a single race — in 1934.
How the Kennedy Campaign Used Tech and Data
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Jill Lepore on the 1950's era precursor to today's big tech marketing companies
Jill Lepore Asks, 'Who Killed Truth?'
Friday, May 15, 2020
Acclaimed historian and author Jill Lepore joins us to discuss her new podcast "The Last Archive."
Democratic Threats and Renewal
Tuesday, February 04, 2020
A historical look at how threats to Democracy can help renew it.
Can We Govern Ourselves?
Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Can we govern ourselves? John Adams didn't think so. Brooke speaks with Jill Lepore about her book "These Truths."
Jill Lepore Argues for American Patriotism
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Jill Lepore says patriotism shouldn't be a bad thing.
Unforeseen
Wednesday, January 02, 2019
A book of technology predictions makes distressing reading at the end of a year that, a golden anniversary ago, looked positively thrilling.
About Those Self-Evident Truths
Friday, November 09, 2018
Inquiry, fact, principles and good government throughout all of American history, with Jill Lepore.
This America
Monday, November 05, 2018
From a 1958 synagogue bombing in Atlanta to the events of recent weeks, the bloody-mindedness of broken men can be countered only by principle and fortitude.
'Teetering on Revolution': The American Story
Friday, September 21, 2018
Harvard historian Jill Lepore talks about her new take on the full scope of U.S. history in the book, These Truths.
It Was Never Thus
Monday, August 27, 2018
During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.
Rags to Riches Revisited
Friday, May 11, 2018
If America is supposed to be a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all, why do so many fall through the cracks?
When Republicans Wanted Abortion Rights
Friday, January 05, 2018
Historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore explains how the intractable political battle came to be.
Inquietude
Monday, October 02, 2017
The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.