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.
Discovering communities of microbes that exist within us. More
Lewis Lapham talks to John Micklethwait about rethinking the machinery of the state in the twenty-first century. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Mark Kurlansky, author of Paper: Paging Through History. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Nancy Isenberg about the language of poverty and American myths about class, work, and equality. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian John Julius Norwich about one of the most successful institutions the world has ever known. More
Lewis Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
