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Lapham's Quarterly
Lapham’s Quarterly embodies the belief that history is the root of all education. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern by bringing voices from the past up to the microphone of the present.
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Virtue ethics, psychiatric treatment, and higher education.
The Rest Is History, our digest of readings and obituaries, is now on Substack.
Voices: Botanical Illustrations
Andrea Wulf on George Forster’s breadfruit botany; Horace Gray on tomato taxonomy; Sarah Lohman on Edmond Albius' vanilla horticulture; Michael Pollan on poppy toxicology; why sailors fear bananas.
Heart of a Phoenix
One year later, Lapham’s Quarterly lives. What’s ahead in year two of our revival.
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I Shall Not Envy Him the Honor of the Discovery
Holdout buildings, medieval abortion, and corporate raves.
The Rest Is History, our digest of readings and obituaries, is now on Substack.
Andrea Wulf on George Forster
Listen now (73 mins) | One man’s quest for humanity from the South Seas to revolutionary Paris.
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Born Again. Postscript: Thank You
A Tribute to Lewis Lapham
Watch now | From His Colleagues in Film and Television.