Most would call the building of the transcontinental railroads a triumph of capitalism and its genius tycoons, but a comedy of errors played by avaricious fools is closer to the truth. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Richard White about the failures of the companies behind a major alteration of the American West.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Kory Stamper, lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. More
Lewis Lapham talks with author Brook Wilensky-Lanford about the search for Adam and Eve’s hometown. More
Lewis Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story. More
