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The Lapham's Quarterly SPRING SALE has begun:
For a limited time, we are offering 40% off back issues and boxed sets, including selections drawn from Lewis Lapham's own list of essential themes: War, Money, Revolution, Climate, States of Mind, and more.
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Jun 13
“What is the point of the ancient classics? Why should we bother about what people did two thousand years ago or more: what they made, wrote, and thought? What can it all mean to us now?” @wmarybeard talks classics on The World in Time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Back when Justin E.H. Smith had his "What is X?" podcast at @the_point_mag, I told him he should have @zenahitz on to talk about "What is Education?"
Was very pleased to see the two in conversation on the topic, even if it's on a different podcast:
The Future of the Humanities! New podcast from @laphamsquart with me, Justin Smith-Ruiu, and D. Graham Burnett.
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Jun 12
"On the night Charles Dickens first met Hans Christian Andersen, he had drunk a few drops over his usual habit . . . "
"Christian Punch in June," by Francine Prose, from her new novel, *Five Weeks in the Country.*
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The Future of the Humanities! New podcast from @laphamsquart with me, Justin Smith-Ruiu, and D. Graham Burnett.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
Extracts: On Memory, live now on Substack. Link in reply.
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May 28
"If you take modern visitors or television viewers away from the lofty “greats” of classical culture and show them the seedy bars or the family quarters of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they will almost always be taken aback by the familiarity."
New Mary Beard (link in reply).
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May 28
Read the full essay, adapted from her new book, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old: laphamsquarterly.org/roundta…
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May 23
“What is the point of the ancient classics? Why should we bother about what people did two thousand years ago or more: what they made, wrote, and thought?”
—Mary Beard, from the new ep. of The World in Time.
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May 23
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May 19
The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647
From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851
Extracts: On Rivalry & Feud, live now on Substack. Link in reply.
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“‘There is a wisdom that is woe, but there is a woe that is madness’—to me, that summarizes much of life.”
— Yiyun Li, from the new ep. of The World in Time, on “The Try-Works” (Moby Dick, chapter 96).
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Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/…
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The Lapham's Quarterly SPRING SALE has begun:
For a limited time, we are offering 40% off back issues and boxed sets, including selections drawn from Lewis Lapham's own list of essential themes: War, Money, Revolution, Climate, States of Mind, and more.
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Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800
Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599
Extracts: On Home, live now on Substack. Link in reply.
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