Trial by Teenager, Part 1

The Last Archive

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What if there were a way to stop politicians from lying on social media? Jill Lepore heads to a local high school to test out a crazy idea: Should juries of high school history students decide whether each and every political ad is true enough to be posted to social media?

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello listeners, Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:03.3	Before this episode starts, I wanted to let you know that there is a month of new content
0:08.2	coming from Pushkin that you can hear early and at free.
0:12.6	Our team has exciting new shows and podcasts like a new series from my podcast Revisioness
0:18.7	History, Paul McCartney's brand new podcast McCartney, a life in lyrics, new and exclusive
0:24.5	content from the Happiness Lab by Dr. Louis Santos and a brand new season of the podcast
0:30.5	called The Dream that dives into the truth behind life coaches and self-help.
0:37.2	You won't want to miss Pushkin's September launches.
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1:19.8	Fill with textbooks and backpacks and snacks.
1:25.0	That place, this place, is a high school.
1:28.6	Sneakers skidding on freshly waxed linoleum floors, fluorescent lights, gleaming overhead, the
1:35.6	gavill of gossip, flirting in the hallway, and down this hallway, a history class.
1:42.6	What is a fact?
1:46.6	Welcome to the last archive, the show about how we know what we know and why it seems lately
1:59.6	hard to know anything at all.
2:01.6	I'm Jill LaPore, this episode we're going back to school to learn how to know what's
2:07.4	true.
2:08.4	Tell me, be brave now.
2:11.8	What's a fact?
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