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Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about…

— Jill Lepore

History is only written from what remains.

— Jill Lepore

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

— Jill Lepore

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

— Jill Lepore

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her…

— Jill Lepore

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

— Jill Lepore

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't…

— Jill Lepore

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.…

— Jill Lepore

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of…

— Jill Lepore

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

— Jill Lepore

“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up…

— Jill Lepore

One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but…

— Jill Lepore