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 the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. More
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Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The People, No. More
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Lewis Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
