Democracy Then and Now: Jill Lepore

From the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner of We the People comes an urgent account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world in The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. Jill Lepore is an international best-selling author, American historian, and journalist currently serving as the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Professor of Law at Harvard University, in addition to her contributions as a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2005. As a wide-ranging and prolific…