Essays
Crowd Control Away with the old, in with the new; kill the king, remove the statues, reset the clocks, welcome to a world that never was but soon is yet to come. More Essays
Essays
Market Corrections In all revolutions there comes a moment when the high ideals of the revolutionaries crash onto the hard rocks of reality. In Russia, it was March of 1921. More EssaysConversations
Rousing the Troops "Oh! Pleasant exercise of hope and joy! / For mighty were the auxiliars, which then stood / Upon our side, we who were strong in love!" William Wordsworth and John Reed stand at the edge of a new world. More ConversationsVoices in Time
1860: Hit Piece "Mr. Darwin writes as a Christian, we doubt not that he is." More Voices in Time
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862
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LQ Podcast:
Orlando Figes The Russian historian describes the Revolution’s retreat in the 1920s from its high communist ideals under the New Economic Policy.
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Lewis H. Lapham
is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's magazine.
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Your face, my thane, is a book where men / May read strange matters ...
— William Shakespeare
