Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 18, 2025
February 15, 2022
The Custom of the Country
On the relationships formed and marriages made by the fur trade.
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February 11, 2022
The Rest Is History
Dino sniffles, Tutankhamun in the twenty-first century, and a famous fictional user of cocaine.
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February 10, 2022
A Dictator’s Marginalia
Stalin’s “signs of attention” included “rubbish” and “piss off.”
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February 08, 2022
What Driveling Times Are These!
Georgian grumblings on an age of decline.
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February 04, 2022
The Rest Is History
Stinky medieval children, smelly books, and the history of fire.
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February 02, 2022
A Disgrace to His Family
Meet Charles Darwin, somewhat aimless student and excellent beetle hunter.
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January 28, 2022
The Rest Is History
Distractions, photographs erased from the historical record, and a metal detectorist.
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January 26, 2022
An Ugly Preeminence
On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.
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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.