Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis Henry Laphamis an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He is the founder of Lapham's Quarterly, a quarterly publication about history and literature, and has written numerous books on politics and current affairs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth8 January 1935
CountryUnited States of America
culture today imagine
Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.
decision political unjust
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
life waiting band
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
letting-go money might
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
war forever news
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
emptiness states very-good
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
lovely looks stories
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
broken pieces thousand
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.
opposites sides ends
When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
needs profit stage
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
children rich wells
The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
world united-states argument
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
self way mazes
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
song garden delight
In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.