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 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 Youth Fortune’s Child By Lewis H. Lapham Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. More
Preamble Time Captain Clock By Lewis H. Lapham From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days. More
Preamble Technology Greeks Bearing Gifts By Simon Winchester From Antikythera to AI—tracking the labyrinthine path of technology’s progress. More
