May 01, 2023
The Socialist Calculation Debate
On the consequences of an obscure economic quarrel.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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April 28, 2023
The Rest Is History
Parking lots, the first baby monitor, and healthy wine.
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April 24, 2023
American Charivari
The history and context of the made-up aesthetics of the early Ku Klux Klan.
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April 17, 2023
Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking
How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.
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April 14, 2023
The Rest Is History
Spring cleaning, the Comstock Act, and an ancient ball game.
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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.