Preamble Politics Feast of Fools By Lewis H. Lapham How American democracy became all about the rule of money. More
Preamble Home Castles in Air By Lewis H. Lapham The American democracy and dream are the building of castles in air. Whither goeth the one so goeth the other, these days up in smoke and the spout. More
Preamble Intoxication Alms for Oblivion By Lewis H. Lapham “One should always be drunk,” proclaimed poet Charles Baudelaire. But the question remains, drunk with what? More
Preamble States of Mind The Enchanted Loom By Lewis H. Lapham On the mind’s ability to reinterpret the past and the tenth anniversary of Lapham’s Quarterly. More
Preamble Death Memento Mori By Lewis H. Lapham Learning how to die, as Michel de Montaigne once rightly said, is the unlearning of how to be a slave. More
