Decoder with Nilay Patel · 2026-07-20 · 59 min · 10,879 words

Dr. Jill Lepore on why the AI backlash is vital for the future

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Search and follow stay tuned with Preed. Wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Dekoder. I'm Neil I Patel, editor and chief of The Verge, and Dekoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer, Dr. Jill LePore, about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25th. Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Dakota is a show about systems.

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