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2024-03-28

  The Iceman - ‘The Deadline’

In our first installment of essays from The Deadline, we’re bringing you ‘The Ice Man,’ a story about the history of cryogenic freezing, and the perils of being unable to let go.  After the essay, Jill and Ben talk about where the essay began and the m...
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2024-03-21

  Coming Soon: Jill Lepore’s The Deadline

Last year, Jill Lepore published a book called The Deadline. It’s a compilation of years worth of beautiful essays Jill has written on everything from the history of cryogenics to the Silicon Valley gospel of disruption. For the next six weeks, we’re g...
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2024-03-14

  From Decoder Ring: “The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1”

We’re bringing you an episode of Decoder Ring from our friends at Slate. This episode dives into a strange historical urban legend: Did Peter Falk of Columbo fame really help quell a Romanian communist revolt during the Cold War? Host Willa Paskin inve...
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2024-03-07

  The Returns: A Conversation with Jill Lepore

In a special, all-new episode of ‘The Returns,’ host emerita Jill Lepore returns to talk about the post-truth moment we find ourselves in and what it means for the 2024 election.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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2024-02-29

  The Returns: Epiphany

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our own archive to help put our present politics into historical context. This episode, Epiphany, first ran in 2021, as the finale to Season 2, which was all about lies, fakes, frauds, and ho...
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2024-02-22

  The Returns: Hush Rush

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our archive to help put our present politics into historical context.  In the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh transformed talk radio. In the process, he radicalized his listeners and the conservative mo...
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2024-02-15

  The Returns: Project X

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our archive to put our present politics into historical context. The election of 1952 brought all kinds of new technology into the political sphere. The Eisenhower campaign experimented with ...
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2024-02-08

  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 this mess come from? In a 4-episode mini-series drawing from our own archive, Jill Lepore and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey investigate, situate, and contextualize our present...
  Pushkin Industries author
2023-11-20

  The Unmarked Graveyard from Radio Diaries

This is the first episode in Radio Diaries’ new series The Unmarked Graveyard, untangling mysteries from America’s largest public cemetery. Each week, they’re bringing you stories of how people ended up on New York City's Hart Island, the lives they li...
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2023-10-24

  Jill Lepore’s The Deadline

Today we’re bringing back Jill Lepore with a chapter from her latest book The Deadline. The astonishing collection is the art of the essay at its best. Enjoy this chapter and purchase the audiobook here or wherever you get your audiobooks.See omnystudi...
  Pushkin Industries author