Lewis Lapham talks to Michael Kazin, author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. More

Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More

Lewis Lapham talks with Kory Stamper, lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.     More

Discovering communities of microbes that exist within us. More

Lewis Lapham talks with Ian Mortimer about the past millennium of human innovation. More

Lewis Lapham talks with William Hogeland about the creation of the United States’ first standing army and its victory over a coalition of Indian forces that sought to halt the country’s expansion. More

Lewis Lapham talks to John Micklethwait about rethinking the machinery of the state in the twenty-first century. More

Lewis Lapham talks to Andrew J. Bacevich about America’s shift from the Cold War to war in the Middle East. More