October 01, 2019
Lucretian Prehistory
An Epicurean view of the pros and cons of civilization.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 30, 2019
Hot-Air War Machine
On the scientists and inventors who brought flying balloons to battle.
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September 27, 2019
Before the East India Company
The precursors to the most powerful corporation in history.
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September 26, 2019
Between the Streets
Acknowledging public sex changed how walkers interacted with Paris.
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September 25, 2019
The Multiverses of Robert Grosseteste
A medieval polymath looks for the origin of the cosmos.
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September 23, 2019
American Myth
The early years of the Chicano activist Reies López Tijerina.
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September 20, 2019
The Rest Is History
Unicorns of the sea, medieval soap, and John Milton’s marginalia.
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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.