The World in Time

Stories and insight from today’s leading writers and thinkers

The Country School, by Winslow Homer, 1871.

November 13, 2020

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Derek W. Black

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy. More

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September 04, 2020

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Richard Kreitner

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union. More

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The Populist Paul Revere, by J.S. Pughe, 1904.

August 14, 2020

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Thomas Frank

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The People, No. More

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July 24, 2020

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Tracy Campbell

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Year of Peril: America in 1942. More

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The Old Couple Looking at a Portrait of Lincoln, after Harry Roseland, c. 1905.

June 19, 2020

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Edward Achorn

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. More

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March 20, 2020

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Peter Fritzsche

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. More

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February 14, 2020

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Richard J. King

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick. More

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Bedouins in Camp at Night. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

January 31, 2020

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Gaia Vince

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. More

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Political cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

December 02, 2014

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian speaks with Lewis Lapham about her latest book, The Bully Pulpit. More

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Robert Weide

September 17, 2014

Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer and documentary filmmaker Robert B. Weide has profiled the biggest names in comedy. More

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Soviets & Spies

April 30, 2014

Did an Englishman assist in the murder of Rasputin? Did a man knowns as the “Ace of Spies” almost carry off the assassination of the entire Bolshevik power structure? More

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