Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 30, 2025
April 09, 2019
The Need for Speed Limits
The symbiotic growth of the automobile industry and law enforcement.
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April 08, 2019
The Greatest Show of Them All
How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.
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April 05, 2019
Season Three of The World in Time
Announcing a new season of the Lapham’s Quarterly podcast.
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April 05, 2019
The Rest Is History
Something borrowed, something blue, something fossilized.
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April 04, 2019
Captured Faces
Why did slaveholders have photographs taken of their slaves?
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April 03, 2019
Looking for Shakespeare’s Library
The Bard clearly read many books. Where did they go?
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March 29, 2019
The Rest Is History
New ways of looking at Vincent Van Gogh, the Stoics, and Julia Child.
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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.