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 Climate Paying the Piper By Lewis H. Lapham Acquiring an acquaintance with nature when capitalism has put its future at risk. More
Preamble Fear Petrified Forest By Lewis H. Lapham Fear, says Lewis Lapham, is America’s top-selling consumer product. 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
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
