Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778.

Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The Sea

Volume VI, Number 3 | summer 2013

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Water World

From radioactive waste to underwater cables, the world under the sea.

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Miscellany

According to a 2012 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, over 87 percent of global fish stocks are either “fully exploited” or “overexploited.”

The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.

- Leigh Hunt, 1820

Lapham’sDaily

U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue meets with German minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, 2017.

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Equal Climates

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U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.

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Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.

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The 7th New York Militia Regiment marches down Broadway, an illustration from Harper’s Weekly, 1861.

LQ Podcast

#11 John Strausbaugh

Lewis H. Lapham talks with John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War. More