- 96
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 2,095
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 938K
- YouTube views
About The Last Archive
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.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Industries
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 96 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook
13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Staten Island Problem - Part 5: Revenge of the Forgotten Borough
6 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Staten Island Problem - Part 4: Wu-Tang vs. Shaolin
Inside a recent episode
Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Trump had no personal experience inside it and had made no effort to educate himself. Handed the task of managing it, he was just going to wing it. And that's what he did. Right after the election, all these experts across the federal government people who managed the nuclear stockpile in the Department of Energy, people who ran pandemic preparedness at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who ran the National Weather Service in the Department of Commerce, and on and on and on, put out finger sandwiches and sparkling water and sat around waiting for someone from the Trump administration to turn up, just to let them know what they were working on and what they might need to do to prevent various horrible things from happening. […]
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- Amy Westervelt
- Maya Shankar
- Arvind Ethan David
- Lucie Sullivan
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- YouTube views
- 937,810
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 1,782 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 313 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 57
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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