Preamble The Sea Sea Change By Lewis H. Lapham The sea offers a particular kind of freedom, though it’s one that comes at a price. More
Preamble Ways of Learning Playing with Fire By Lewis H. Lapham The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels. More
Preamble Time Captain Clock By Lewis H. Lapham From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days. More
Preamble Home Castles in Air By Lewis H. Lapham The American democracy and dream are the building of castles in air. Whither goeth the one so goeth the other, these days up in smoke and the spout. More
Preamble Death Memento Mori By Lewis H. Lapham Learning how to die, as Michel de Montaigne once rightly said, is the unlearning of how to be a slave. More