Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 29, 2025
September 13, 2016
The Athenian Option
Alan Moore recommended an ancient alternative to democracy. How does it work?
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September 09, 2016
The Rest Is History
Funding a famous statue, working in the twenty-first-century office, and insulting every president.
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September 06, 2016
A Conversation on Class
On education as class migration, culture as social capital, and the joys of fried food.
Read MoreSeptember 02, 2016
The Rest Is History
Judging the fashions of female politicians, revisiting a famous muse, and searching for history in a swamp.
Read MoreAugust 26, 2016
The Rest Is History
Women in urban space, Nero in art, and cats in the news.
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The Rest Is History
Snakes in New England, women in the Olympics, and Gertrude Stein in the children’s section.
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August 16, 2016
“A Good Story, if I Can Remember It”
Tracking down the memories of anti-apartheid writer and editor Sylvester Stein.
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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.