2025-03-26
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Long read hi, my name is Jill Lepore.
I'm the author of a 2021 long read called Is Society Coming Apart?
I think the Guardian was doing a roundup of stories trying to take stock of what had and had not changed during the pandemic in the US and the uk And I somehow got really interested in this guy,
Robert Nisbett, who had written this book, the Quest for Community,
because it seemed to pop up in a lot of places when I was trying to understand the history of the idea of the social fabric.
What I wrote about in 2021 was the relationship between society and government.
I was really riffing on Margaret Thatcher's famous declaration
that there is no such thing as society and trying to understand the sort of hyper alienation of the pandemic and how it did or did not manifest that idea.
I don't know.
That much that I described in 2021 has really changed.
I think the kind of ruptures that took place during the pandemic have not healed and maybe have only widened.
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By Jill Lepore, read by Kelly Burke and produced by Hattie Moyer In March 2020, Boris Johnson,
pale and exhausted self isolating in his flat on Downing street,
released of himself that he had taken himself,