Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 17, 2025
September 20, 2023
The Only Monarch Left in Rome
On the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy.
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September 15, 2023
The Rest Is History
A massacre of forest protectors, an apocalypse-proof building, and a Van Gogh in an Ikea bag.
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September 15, 2023
The Early Days of American English
How English words evolved on a foreign continent.
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September 13, 2023
Welcoming Our New Executive Director and Publisher
Paul W. Morris joins Lapham’s Quarterly and the American Agora Foundation.
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September 11, 2023
Do Not Suffer Him to Become a Bigot
How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain.
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September 08, 2023
The Rest Is History
A plague film, a catchy song, and a Chinese dissident.
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September 06, 2023
Ghost Writer
On the fictional—or not-so-fictional—narrator of In Search of Lost Time.
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September 01, 2023
The Rest Is History
Systems novels, lessons for organizers, and the emerging terrain of struggle.
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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.