Preamble Animals Man and Beast By Lewis H. Lapham Michel de Montaigne once considered, “When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?” More
Preamble Crimes & Punishments Crime Scenes By Lewis H. Lapham The American fondness for the dressing up of crime in the costumes of romance is an amusement priced at too high a cost. More
Preamble Rule of Law Due Process By Lewis H. Lapham Lamenting the death of the rule of law in a country where it might have always been missing. More
Preamble Politics Feast of Fools By Lewis H. Lapham How American democracy became all about the rule of money. More
Preamble Religion Mandates of Heaven By Lewis H. Lapham Finding religion in the strangest of places. 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
