October 02, 2019
Nonsmokers, Unite!
The complicated privilege of forming a new constituency.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
October 4, 2019
October 01, 2019
Lucretian Prehistory
An Epicurean view of the pros and cons of civilization.
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September 30, 2019
Hot-Air War Machine
On the scientists and inventors who brought flying balloons to battle.
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September 27, 2019
Before the East India Company
The precursors to the most powerful corporation in history.
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September 26, 2019
Between the Streets
Acknowledging public sex changed how walkers interacted with Paris.
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September 25, 2019
The Multiverses of Robert Grosseteste
A medieval polymath looks for the origin of the cosmos.
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September 23, 2019
American Myth
The early years of the Chicano activist Reies López Tijerina.
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September 17, 2019
Seal Ex Machina
2019:
Seal helps stop an alleged international drug gang.
1918:
Dog bites man, stops robbery.
June 26, 2019
I’m Gonna Live Forever
2019:
Radical life extensionists trust science to cure death.
1786:
A doctor mines the habits of history’s long-lived for tips.