Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 16, 2025
November 29, 2021
Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon
Want to become a merchant? Master a language or two first.
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November 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
Tree fashion, a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and George Sand in Paris.
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November 24, 2021
A Utopia of Useful Things
On the nineteenth-century artists and thinkers who pictured a future of abundance powered by steam.
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November 22, 2021
The Comforts of a Single State
Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.
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November 15, 2021
Are You My Mother Tongue?
On the generations of linguists who searched for Muttersprache’s origin story.
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November 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
Making drinks, meeting a lover across a supposed divide, and laughing during a plague.
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Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.