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Coming Soon: Season Three

Oct 13, 20222 min
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Episode description

Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore returns with the third season of her Pushkin Industries podcast The Last Archive. Across two seasons, Lepore has unspooled a history of the United States's post-truth crisis — of how we know what we know and why it seems lately as if we can't agree on anything at all. In her third and final season, Lepore tells eight stories about common knowledge. From high school juries ruling on the truthfulness of political ads to profiles of cutting-edge animal scientists, Lepore offers a season of celebration.

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Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go, the stuff everybody knows common knowledge. Hi, this is Myron Taxman from Encyclopedia Britannica. You sent in for some information and I was in the area here, so I thought i'd stop by and show you what we have. I'm Jilllapour, host of The Last Archive. For the past two seasons, I've been down here trying to figure out what happened to truth and why it seems so hard

lately to know anything at all. I've been tracing stories about frauds and liars, but this season I wanted to meet the good guys. What does a fact start there amongst your table? And how do you know when something is true? Discuss like high school teachers and their students, Encyclopedia salesman, and of course public librarians. Oh my god,

I love this story so much. This season of The Last Archive, we're celebrating common knowledge, looking for the solutions the anti dute one crazy thing, it's gonna say, the other crazy thing, knowledge that ties communities together. That's a strange topic to spend the evening talking about with the woman that you're gonna ask to marry you. On a week and a half, we'll go back to school talk

to some brilliant young people who truly care about cleaning up. Please, for the love of John Starks, please take up your draft and throw it away because we want to clean and fresh tool about a dirty and Matthew school. So step across the threshold with me one last time. It comes to this, the end. This is like, this is the original. This is where the known things go, the last archive. Listen this fall wherever you get your pot tests

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