Whale catches runaway train.

Las Meninas (detail), by Diego Velázquez, 1656. Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
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I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950Lapham’s
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Lance Morrow
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. More