Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 25, 2025
July 15, 2022
The Rest Is History
Disney in wartime, a Wikipedia hoax, and cosmopolitan African elites.
Read MoreJuly 08, 2022
The Rest Is History
A thing “shocking to all sense of propriety,” the history of wheat, and the relatively unembellished lives of animals.
Read MoreJuly 01, 2022
The Rest Is History
A gushing sound, originalism, and “ongoing and often rather galling forces.”
Read MoreJune 29, 2022
A Case of the Mondays
The beginning of the fight for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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August 07, 2023
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.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.