Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 28, 2025
September 19, 2022
A Fiery Gospel
Kermit Roosevelt III and Lewis H. Lapham discuss changing the American story.
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September 16, 2022
The Rest Is History
French jam, “serious and thoughtful men,” and “blocks of lard and orange American cheese.”
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September 14, 2022
Between Exposure and Occlusion
The surprising, varied, unpredictable, and defamiliarizing process of researching pornography.
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September 12, 2022
Making an Enemy of Luxury
Imagining utopia—and condemning excess—during the Enlightenment.
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September 09, 2022
The Rest Is History
Lightning, floods, and the earliest known evidence of surgery.
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September 02, 2022
The Summer Is Over! Alas! Alas!
Correspondence marking the season’s end and a return to work.
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September 02, 2022
The Rest Is History
Quotations, “disparate versions of manhood,” and “a famously stupid bridge.”
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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.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.