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The Last Archive

by Pushkin Industries

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  • Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook

    October 6, 2026 · 51 min

    Here's a preview of a new audiobook we think you'll enjoy, Blockers: an inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, as told by the public servants it targeted and Michael Lewis, one of America’s best…

  • The Staten Island Problem - Part 5: Revenge of the Forgotten Borough

    August 13, 2026 · 40 min

    Election night 1993 meets election night 2016. The fate of the island and the country converge in the figure of one man: Rudy Giuliani. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Staten Island Problem - Part 4: Wu-Tang vs. Shaolin

    August 6, 2026 · 33 min

    At the height of the secession movement, the Wu-Tang Clan forms on Staten Island. We take a tour of early 1990s hip-hop and reveal the hidden history of the group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Staten Island Problem - Part 3: The Tuvalu Effect

    July 30, 2026 · 31 min

    A group on Staten Island tries to stop secession, squaring off against the secessionists in a heated set of debates and meetings recorded on never-before-seen archival tapes. A set of debates best understood via a detour into the history…

  • The Staten Island Problem - Part 2: A New Map

    July 23, 2026 · 28 min

    After the Supreme Court takes a close look at New York City government, Staten Island comes out the loser. A local artist begins organizing for secession. We take a deep dive into the psychology of the island, which has a lot to do with…

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  • The Staten Island Problem | New Series from Ben

    July 9, 2026 · 37 min

    Ben Naddaff-Hafrey has a new show out! On the 250th anniversary of the United States, he investigates the story of what was, at the time, the biggest secession movement in the U.S. since the Civil War. From Revisionist History, The Staten…

  • The Terminator from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

    March 30, 2025 · 28 min

    Elon Musk has claimed that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Paradoxically, Musk is also working to create artificial intelligence. Why? Jill Lepore tours through a century of imagined robot rebellions, and argues that these…

  • Body Snatchers from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

    March 30, 2025 · 27 min

    In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and renamed it X. When asked why he wanted to own the social media network, Musk talked a lot about something he called the “woke mind virus.” Where does the idea of a mind virus come…

  • Baby X from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

    March 29, 2025 · 28 min

    The science fiction that Silicon Valley techno-billionaires like Elon Musk adore concerns gleaming futures in which fantastically powerful, immensely rich men colonize other planets. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at some of the…

  • The Dogefather from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

    March 29, 2025 · 28 min

    In 2021, Elon Musk started calling himself The Dogefather to signal his support for Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a joke meme about a dog. That dog is now wagging the tail of the world’s economy. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at…

  • Iron Man from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

    March 28, 2025 · 28 min

    In 2008 Tesla Motors launched its first car, the completely electric Roadster. Tesla was a great story — something genuinely new, an engineering marvel. Musk became a media darling, on the cover of countless magazines under headlines like…

  • Planet B from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

    March 28, 2025 · 28 min

    Elon Musk is a rocket man. He wants humans to become ‘a multi-planetary species’ and talks about establishing human settlements on Mars. As President Trump talks up the Mars program while dismantling aid initiatives around the globe, Jill…

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About the show

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.