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Cover | Libertas Americana, Augustin Dupré, 1782
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | American Neoclassic
Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, Uncivil Liberty
VOICES IN TIME
Revolution
2018: Oxford | Rupert Younger & Frank Partnoy
c. 330 bc: Athens | Aristotle
1966: Accra | John Dramani Mahama
c. 430: Persia | Ferdowsi
1917: Zurich | Vladimir Lenin
1943: London | Simone Weil
1814: Quincy, MA | John Adams
1919: Munich | Max Weber
2012: Tunis | Mouheb Ben Garoui
c. 1866: Amherst, MA | Emily Dickinson
c. 1950: Pacific Ocean | William Golding
1882: Camden, NJ | Walt Whitman
1949: Cairo | Inji Aflatun
2003: Najaf | Ali al-Sistani
1957: United States | Budd Schulberg
1792: Paris | Hilary Mantel
1928: Washington, DC | Harry Atwood
1651: Surrey | Gerrard Winstanley
1970: Santiago | Edward Korry
c. 2300: Urras | Ursula K. Le Guin
1963: Washington, DC | John Lewis
Constitution
2011: National Harbor, MD | Thomas Hofeller
1860: Glasgow | Frederick Douglass
1943: New York City | E.B. White
c. 1451: Onondaga Lake | Great Law of Peace
1920: Virginia | Addie Waites Hunton
1404: Rome | Adam of Usk
c. 1720: Atlantic Ocean | Charles Johnson
1956: London | C.L.R. James
1835: Paris | Alexis de Tocqueville
1970: Selby, VT | Jane J. Mansbridge
c. 925: Baghdad | Al-Farabi
c. 1905: Chiapas | B. Traven
1886: Pittsburgh | Andrew Carnegie
c. 500 bc: Shravasti | Vinaya Pitaka
1919: New York City | W.E.B. Du Bois
c. 1817: Paris | Germaine de Staël
1787: New York City | James Madison
1969: Rosebud Reservation | Lame Deer
c. 1020: Iceland | Snorri Sturluson
1961: Tanganyika | Julius Nyerere
1837: Brookline, MA | Angelina Grimké
1940: Princeton, NJ | George Gallup & Saul Forbes Rae
c. 575 bc: Rome | Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1967: New York City | Martin Luther King Jr.
1517: Venice | Marino Sanudo
1908: London | G.K. Chesterton
Dissolution
2020: Hong Kong | Yi-Ling Liu
1953: East Berlin | Bertolt Brecht
1762: Paris | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c. 1900: New York City | Harpo Marx
c. 375 bc: Athens | Plato
1966: Anata | Chinua Achebe
c. 355 bc: Athens | Isocrates
1834: Moyamensing, PA | Philadelphia Gazette
1941: New York City | Dorothy Thompson
1880: Washington, DC | Henry Adams
1920: London | Rose Macaulay
1975: New York City | Walter Karp
1918: Tokyo | Ozaki Yukio
c. 1414: France | Christine de Pisan
1982: Chicago | Special Grand Jury
1922: New York City | Walter Lippmann
1791: Paris | Jean-Paul Marat
1940: New York City | W.H. Auden
559 bc: Jin | Zuozhuan
1931: Berlin | Heinrich Mann
2020: Washington, DC | Thomas Frank
1895: Paris | Gustave Le Bon
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
Hiding in Plain Sight | David Graeber & David Wengrow
Nongoloza’s Ghost | Sisonke Msimang
Our Chief Danger | William Hogeland
A Story of Use and Abuse | Arlene W. Saxonhouse
In the People’s House There Are Many Mansions | Thomas Geoghegan
Departments
Conversations | Miller, Macaulay, Ake
Miscellany | Cooping Poe, Toga Party, Consulta Publica
Glossary | Bossism, Hubbellism, Poll Watcher
Sources | Readings & Art
This issue is made possible by a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.