When the Colorado–14th Amendment ballot case broke, Washington Post columnist and public intellectual E.J. Dionne was skeptical. He was among those who thought that Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado and let the people decide whether he should […]
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore on “the hold of the dead over the living”
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, historian Jill Lepore discusses her recent collection of essays, The Deadline, with the magazine’s law editor, Julien Crockett. Here is a taste of the interview: JULIEN CROCKETT: In the introduction to your […]
Episode 120: “Popular Historians in Post-War America”
Should professional historians write for the general public? If so, who is the “public” they are trying to reach? And when historians do write for the public how do they manage to make their work readable and accessible without sacrificing […]
Jill Lepore on the state of “society”
Here is a taste of the Harvard historian’s recent piece at The Guardian: In March 2020, Boris Johnson, pale and exhausted, self-isolating in his flat on Downing Street, released a video of himself – that he had taken himself – […]