Pushkin. There's a place in our world where the doubtful things go. Lies and hoaxes and conspiracy theories. Boxes of this stuff, tottering, stacks of files full of dubious claims and facts that don't check. This spring, in the second season of my podcast, The Last Archive, I'm heading down there. My name is Jill Lapour. I'm a historian at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Over the last few years, I've been troubled by some pretty big
questions about our present. Why is it so hard for us to agree on what's true? Why does it feel so impossible to know anything anymore? So I started this podcast, The Last Archive to find answers to trace a history. Last season, the podcast took the form of a murder her mystery, Who Done It? An investigation into the question who killed truth. A lot of history has happened since then, twenty twenty the year to end all years, and now twenty twenty one, with an insurrection and impeachment and a
mass vaccination campaign. Everything just keeps seeming so unbelievable. So this season, I'm taking on a new mystery. I'm investigating the rise of doubt over the last hundred years of American history, starting with the Scoops Monkey Trial in nineteen twenty five, all the way down to now. We'll meet hypnotists and parapsychologists, Nazis and Soviet propagandists, and voices too of reason. Come by and knock on the door of the last archive. You can find it anywhere you get
your podcasts. Just past the shadow of a doubt,