January 10, 2022
Under Difficulties
Harriet Martineau considers the relationship between ambitious work and physical health.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
January 18, 2022
January 14, 2022
The Rest Is History
Astronomy, a hallucinogenic drug, and a hungry badger.
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January 07, 2022
The Rest Is History
Ancient toilet worms, works entering the public domain, and bills killed in the Senate.
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January 05, 2022
Only That I Were an Official Person!
Women in diplomacy during the Napoleonic wars.
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January 03, 2022
Quality Insurance Purposes
Insuring against the cost of insurance itself in Revolutionary-era America.
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December 31, 2021
The Rest Is History
A digitally unwrapped mummy, unsought divinity, and historic true crime.
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December 29, 2021
2021 in Review on Roundtable
The sixteen most read essays and excerpts on Lapham’s Quarterly’s website this year.
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December 24, 2021
The Rest Is History
A giant repository of inert resources, easily digestible and frictionless ways, and supply-chain management.
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October 15, 2021
Escape Artists
2021:
Man steals money and runs from the law—after leaving behind a fake suicide note.
1318:
Nun grows tired of the convent and runs from the church—after leaving behind a dummy of herself.