http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ A Magazine of History and Ideas en Copyright 2011 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:03:43 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The second half of LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark's conversation with novelist John Crowley. They discuss Crowley's novel, Little, Big, on the 30th anniversary of its publication.. The second half of LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark's conversation with novelist John Crowley. They discuss Crowley's novel, Little, Big, on the 30th anniversary of its publication. (For Part 1 http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-john-crowley-part-2.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-john-crowley-part-2.php Audio & Video Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:03:43 -0500 During a recent trip to Mountain View, CA, Lewis Lapham spoke with Google's Richard Gingras about the magazine, the media, and the future.. Last month Lewis Lapham visited the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to discuss The Future with Richard Gingras, Head of News Products. The interview was part of the Authors@Google http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/video-lewis-lapham-google.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/video-lewis-lapham-google.php Audio & Video Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:16:09 -0500 Novelist John Crowley talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about why the future is disappearing from people's imaginations and why it's being replaced by the past.. Novelist John Crowley talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about why the future is disappearing from people's imaginations and why it's being replaced by the past. (For Part 2 click http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-john-crowley.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-john-crowley.php Audio & Video Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:36:08 -0500 by Lewis H. Lapham. “…Of comfort no man speak: Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/preamble/kingdom-come.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/preamble/kingdom-come.php Preamble Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:48:27 -0500 1778 / London. Boswell: We must be contented to acknowledge that death is a terrible thing. Johnson: Yes, sir. I have made no approaches to a state which can look on it http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-dying-is-easy.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-dying-is-easy.php Voices in Time Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:38:32 -0500 1904 / Alexandria. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/endgame.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/endgame.php Voices in Time Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:58:49 -0500 c. 1635 / Holland. The tulip—so named, it is said, from a Turkish word, signifying a turban—was introduced into western Europe about the middle of the sixteenth century. Conrad Gesner, who claims the http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/futures-market.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/futures-market.php Voices in Time Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:47:53 -0500 1840 / Paris . In ages of faith, the final aim of life is placed beyond life. The men of such ages are therefore used naturally and, as it were, involuntarily, to fix http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/managing-the-future.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/managing-the-future.php Voices in Time Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:05:56 -0500 c. 1190 BC / Argos. Clytemnestra: Cassandra, you may go within the house, since Zeus in no unkindness has ordained that you must share our lustral water, stand with the great throng of slaves http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/unwelcome-prophet.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/unwelcome-prophet.php Voices in Time Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:00:00 -0500 c. 370 BC / Athens. Socrates: Among the ancient gods of Naucratis in Egypt there was one to whom the bird called the ibis is sacred. The name of that divinity was Thoth, and http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/unintended-consequence.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/unintended-consequence.php Voices in Time Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:17:26 -0500 1919 / Oxford. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/on-the-bright-side.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/on-the-bright-side.php Voices in Time Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:25:33 -0500 c. 1220 / Iceland. Ganglieri, speaking to three men named High, Just-as-High, and Third, asked, “What is to be said about Ragnarok? I have not heard it spoken of before.” High replied, “There http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-fenriswolf-the-midgard-serpent-and-thor-walk-into-a-bar.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-fenriswolf-the-midgard-serpent-and-thor-walk-into-a-bar.php Voices in Time Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:00:00 -0500 1776 / Philadelphia. We ought to reflect that there are three different ways by which an independency may hereafter be effected, and that one of those three will, one day or other, http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/birthday-of-a-new-world.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/birthday-of-a-new-world.php Voices in Time Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:32:28 -0500 From what I hear it's supposed to be pretty nice. Lewis Lapham talks with author Brook Wilensky-Lanford about the search for Adam and Eve's hometown. . Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden by Brook Wilensky-Lanford Grove Press (August 2, 2011) From what I hear it's supposed to be pretty nice. Lewis Lapham talks with http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/the-world-in-time-to-the-paradise-city.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/the-world-in-time-to-the-paradise-city.php Audio & Video Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:51:42 -0500 44 BC / Rome. [Thunder and lightning. Enter Caesar, in his nightgown.] Caesar: Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight: Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out, “Help, ho! They murder http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/varying-interpretations-1.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/varying-interpretations-1.php Voices in Time Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:42:00 -0500 1861 / Shanghai. Western books on mathematics, mechanics, optics, light, and chemistry contain the best principles of the natural sciences. In the books on geography, the mountains, rivers, strategic points, customs, and http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/borrow-the-barbarians-tools.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/borrow-the-barbarians-tools.php Voices in Time Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:01:40 -0500 1909 / Atlantic Ocean. Reader: When you speak of driving out Western civilization, I suppose you will say that we want no machinery. Editor: By raising this question, you have opened the wound http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/question-and-answer.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/question-and-answer.php Voices in Time Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:12:18 -0500 1718 / Adrianople. Dear Mrs. S.C., Apropos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The smallpox, so fatal and so general among http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/life-insurance.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/life-insurance.php Voices in Time Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:19:48 -0500 Marc Maron, standup comedian and host of the WTF podcast, talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about reading, why his books might be bullying him, and why you can't go wrong with a good mac-and-cheese recipe.. Marc Maron, standup comedian and host of the popular WTF Podcast, talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about reading, why his books might be bullying him, and why you can't http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-marc-maron.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-marc-maron.php Audio & Video Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:39:04 -0500 1899 / Tuskegee, AL. There is a great lack of money with which to carry on the educational work in the South. I was in a county in a Southern state not long http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/school-ties.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/school-ties.php Voices in Time Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:31:26 -0500 1862 / Russia. “The motive force behind our actions is that which we recognize to be useful,” pronounced Dr. Bazarov. “At the present time the most useful thing is negation—so we deny—” http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/new-men-and-old.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/new-men-and-old.php Voices in Time Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:43:49 -0500 1841 / Ockham. Dearest Mama, I must tell you what my opinion of my own mind and powers is exactly—the result of a most accurate study of myself with a view to http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/all-in-good-time.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/all-in-good-time.php Voices in Time Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:01:22 -0500 c. 429 BC / Thebes. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/blind-fate.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/blind-fate.php Voices in Time Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:25:33 -0500 . This Fall, Lapham's Quarterly will open the seventh seal and stake our fate in prophecies, oracles, utopias, dystopias, new technologies, and new worlds with our latest issue, The Future, http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/events-news/coming-soon-the-future.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/events-news/coming-soon-the-future.php Events & News Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:24:24 -0500 1865 / San Francisco. At the instance of several friends who feel a boding anxiety to know beforehand what sort of phenomena we may expect the elements to exhibit during the next month http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/forecast.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/forecast.php Voices in Time Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:53:26 -0500 c. 95 / Patmos. I saw the Lamb open one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures call out, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!” I http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/stormy-with-a-chance-of-locusts.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/stormy-with-a-chance-of-locusts.php Voices in Time Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:16:52 -0500 1835 / Paris. Christianity—and this is its fairest merit—subdued to a certain extent the brutal warrior ardor of the Germans, but it could not entirely quench it; and when the cross, that http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/furor-teutonicus.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/furor-teutonicus.php Voices in Time Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:20:14 -0500 And it only took 300 million cubic yards of concrete. Lewis Lapham talks with Earl Swift about the roads that connect America.. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways by Earl Swift Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 9, 2011) And it only http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/the-world-in-time-country-roads.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/the-world-in-time-country-roads.php Audio & Video Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:42:07 -0500 The papacy, despite ups and downs, has enjoyed nearly 2000 years of uninterrupted rule. Lewis Lapham talks with historian John Julius Norwich about one of the most successful institutions the world has ever known.. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich Random House (July 12, 2011) The papacy, despite ups and downs, has enjoyed nearly 2000 years of uninterrupted http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/the-world-in-time-vicars-of-christ.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/the-world-in-time-vicars-of-christ.php Audio & Video Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:20:30 -0500 802701 / London. We were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence of any http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/h-g-wells-travels-in-time.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/h-g-wells-travels-in-time.php Voices in Time Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:42:15 -0500