The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. 

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Volume IV, Number 1 | winter 2011

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And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

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U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue meets with German minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, 2017.

DÉjÀ Vu

Equal Climates

2017:

U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.

-350:

Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.

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Maris Pacifici, the first printed map to depict the Pacific Ocean, Abraham Ortelius, 1589.

LQ Podcast

#10 Simon Winchester

Lewis Lapham talks with Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers. More