# Jill Lepore

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Trump Sends Troops to Portland & Shootings Trigger Left-Right Blame Game | Jill Lepore

After a string of mass shootings across the U.S., America swaps out “thoughts and prayers” for a left vs. right blame game, Republicans hypocritically criticize the Democrats' “violent rhetoric,” and Trump escalates a nonexistent problem by deploying troops to Portland. Harvard law professor and...

Jill Lepore on AI and democracy

Paul Wells interviews Jill Lepore, Harvard historian, New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize winner about The Rise and the Fall of the Artificial State, her latest bestseller. "Few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless,” Lepore writes, "than the rise of what could ...

The Washington Roundtable Live: Can D.C. Get a Grip on A.I.?

The Washington Roundtable travels to Madison, Wisconsin, for a conversation about the politics of artificial intelligence before a live audience at the Cap Times Idea Fest. The group discusses the stakes of Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, D.C.; the potential for coöperation between the U.S. and...

Security concerns prompt OpenAI to scrap latest model

OpenAI says it won’t release its newest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, because it showed high levels of deception during testing. Gregory Allen, founder and CEO of Decision Tree Research, explains the security concerns.And, a number of artificial intelligence agents have gone rogue lately, notably OpenAI’...

‘Repair, correct, improve, adapt, update, those are good ideas’—Jill Lepore on amending the Constitution

About the guest Professor Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanis...

Frankfurter Buchmesse 2026: What Everyone in Publishing Will Be Talking About

AI, audiobooks, BookTok and the biggest shifts shaping #fbm26 Ahead of the fair, On The Books hosts Erin Cox and Felix Zeltner unpack the biggest shifts shaping the industry. At the top of the list: AI. After several years of hype and experimentation, publishers are confronting tougher questions...

Historian Jill Lepore on the “artificial state”

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore talks about her latest book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” how technology like AI is having a knock on effect on our democracy and why it's not too late to stop us slipping into an “artificial state.” 

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore) | TCHR

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more ubiquitous by the day, its alleged dangers are being increasingly discussed by the dominant players of Silicon Valley, who are beginning to call publicly for a slowdown in its implementation. The greatest risk to people is not the technology itself but...

I Do Not Have a Body

AI agents want your bank account and your home address. Meta's Muse took a lowball offer on a seller's keyboard and sent the buyer to his door. OpenAI named its agents Dots, and dot.com goes to Grok. And Anthropic wants to know what you want from AI. Logan is calling in from a villa in Tuscan...

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation

In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that took over a market niche from DuPont and Alcoa. That experience left Christensen puzzled. How could a small company with few resources beat rich incumbents? It led to his theory of disruptive innovation, introduced in the pages of Harvar...