June 13, 2018
Untitled (Circus Scene)
Cornelia Barns, an illustrator for The Masses and beyond.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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June 11, 2018
The Second Bill of Rights
How Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned social and economic rights as human rights.
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June 07, 2018
I Now Pronounce You Legally Null and Void
On archaic marriage laws—and those who found loopholes in them.
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June 06, 2018
Lewis Lapham Reads “Due Process”
Listen to the preamble to Rule of Law, the Spring 2018 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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June 04, 2018
“Enemies” with Disabilities
Eight Italian Americans, the Fernald School, and the government’s watchful eye during World War II.
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May 31, 2018
A Dream Misheard
Trying to find Martin Luther King Jr. in his many memorials.
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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.