Talking to author John Glassie about his book A Man of Misconceptions, which chronicles the odd pursuits of 17th-century scientist and nutball Athanasius Kircher, the misguided decoder of hieroglyphs and the failed inventor of such devices as the sunflower clock.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Victor Sebestyen, author of Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with David Wootton, author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Nancy Isenberg about the language of poverty and American myths about class, work, and equality. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. More
