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 speaks with the author of God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control. More
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Lewis Lapham talks to Andrew J. Bacevich about America’s shift from the Cold War to war in the Middle East. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. More
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