November 07, 2022
Two Kinds of Patriotism
Adam Hochschild and Lewis H. Lapham discuss our fragile democracy.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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November 04, 2022
The Rest Is History
Whaling logs, women at work, and sitting on a wooden horse blindfolded.
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November 02, 2022
Vast and Innumerable Throngs of the Ancient Dead
A medieval account of Egyptian burial practices and tomb robbers.
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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.