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The Last Archive podcast

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The Last Archive

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  Pushkin Industries  

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.

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.

 

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#66

How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab

According to the science, it really is better to give than receive. Donating a dollar; sha... more

02 Dec 2025

47 MINS

47:42

02 Dec 2025

#65

The Terminator from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

Elon Musk has claimed that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.&rdquo... more

30 Mar 2025

27 MINS

27:47

30 Mar 2025

#64

Body Snatchers from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and renamed it X. When asked why he wan... more

30 Mar 2025

27 MINS

27:24

30 Mar 2025

#63

Baby X from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

The science fiction that Silicon Valley techno-billionaires like Elon Musk adore concerns ... more

29 Mar 2025

27 MINS

27:52

29 Mar 2025

#62

The Dogefather from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2021, Elon Musk started calling himself The Dogefather to signal his support for Dogeco... more

29 Mar 2025

27 MINS

27:53

29 Mar 2025

#61

Planet B from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

Elon Musk is a rocket man. He wants humans to become ‘a multi-planetary species&rsqu... more

28 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:26

28 Mar 2025

#60

Dimension X from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

ElonMusk is reinventing himself as a kingmaker for the United States and the world. He wan... more

27 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:00

27 Mar 2025

#59

The Dark Knight from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

Elon Musk’s origin story keeps changing. First, he was Tony Stark, or Iron Man. Not ... more

27 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:01

27 Mar 2025

#58

John Birch vs. the PTA

In the 1960s, a right-wing organization led by a former candy tycoon rose to fame in Ameri... more

31 Oct 2024

33 MINS

33:08

31 Oct 2024

#57

Part 2: Long Jump, Tall Tale

Jesse Owens spent the rest of his life retelling the story of the 1936 games and his encou... more

10 Oct 2024

45 MINS

45:02

10 Oct 2024

#56

Part 1: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

The most famous athlete in 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany was the American sprinter Jesse O... more

10 Oct 2024

39 MINS

39:55

10 Oct 2024

#55

70 Years of Brown v. Board of Education

Jill Lepore returns to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ruling in Brown v. Board of E... more

17 May 2024

34 MINS

34:06

17 May 2024

#54

The Returns: A Conversation with Jill Lepore

In a special, all-new episode of ‘The Returns,’ host emerita Jill Lepore returns to talk a... more

07 Mar 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:58

07 Mar 2024

#53

The Returns: Epiphany

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our own archive to help put o... more

29 Feb 2024

46 MINS

46:37

29 Feb 2024

#52

The Returns: Hush Rush

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our archive to help put our p... more

22 Feb 2024

50 MINS

50:54

22 Feb 2024

#51

The Returns: Project X

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our archive to put our presen... more

15 Feb 2024

45 MINS

45:27

15 Feb 2024

#50

The Returns: An Election Mini-Series from The Last Archive

Election Year 2024 is upon us. And it promises to be a bit of a mess. But where did all th... more

08 Feb 2024

01 MINS

01:42

08 Feb 2024

#49

The Unmarked Graveyard from Radio Diaries

This is the first episode in Radio Diaries’ new series The Unmarked Graveyard, untangling ... more

20 Nov 2023

23 MINS

23:45

20 Nov 2023

#48

The Krononauts

In our season finale, we travel through time. See [omnystudio.com/listener] (https://omnys... more

27 Jul 2023

48 MINS

48:04

27 Jul 2023

#47

Callings

In the 1940s, a freelance wiretapper named Big Jim Vaus got mixed up with the cops, the mo... more

20 Jul 2023

43 MINS

43:12

20 Jul 2023

#46

Acting Out

In the 1930s, at a women's reformatory in upstate New York, an upstart social scientist ma... more

13 Jul 2023

48 MINS

48:53

13 Jul 2023

#45

Parakeet Panic

When invasive parakeets began to spread in New York City in the 1970s, the government deci... more

06 Jul 2023

40 MINS

40:01

06 Jul 2023

#44

The Word For Man Is Ishi

In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, en... more

29 Jun 2023

49 MINS

49:18

29 Jun 2023

#43

Player Piano

This week on The Last Archive, the story of the composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to... more

22 Jun 2023

53 MINS

53:09

22 Jun 2023

#42

Coming Soon: Season 4

This upcoming season on The Last Archive: early artificial intelligence, the forgotten ori... more

08 Jun 2023

02 MINS

02:06

08 Jun 2023

#41

Is Shakespeare American? From Where There’s a Will

We’re bringing you an episode of a new Pushkin podcast we’re enjoying and think you will, ... more

22 Dec 2022

11 MINS

11:23

22 Dec 2022