Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 20, 2025
June 11, 2018
The Second Bill of Rights
How Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned social and economic rights as human rights.
Read MoreJune 07, 2018
I Now Pronounce You Legally Null and Void
On archaic marriage laws—and those who found loopholes in them.
Read MoreJune 06, 2018
Lewis Lapham Reads “Due Process”
Listen to the preamble to Rule of Law, the Spring 2018 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
Read MoreJune 04, 2018
“Enemies” with Disabilities
Eight Italian Americans, the Fernald School, and the government’s watchful eye during World War II.
Read MoreMay 31, 2018
A Dream Misheard
Trying to find Martin Luther King Jr. in his many memorials.
Read MoreMay 29, 2018
The Laws of the Jungle
Rudyard Kipling populated Mowgli’s world with political opinions and metaphorical monkeys.
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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.