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Lewis Lapham has died

197 points by benbreen 2y ago

mrmetanoia 2y ago
Loved his writing and curation. 89's a good run, but I'll miss him being around.
unethical_ban 2y ago
RIP. His opening essays in Laphams Quarterly were forming for me. I have quite a few of them on my bookshelf. Thank you for your contributions to our world.
- bublyboi 2y ago
  Thanks for mentioning Lapham’s Quarterly, I’m reading past issues now. Any other reading recommendations?
  - ineptech 2y ago
    He wrote the "Notebook" column in Harper's magazine regularly for many years, and one of the very admirable things about Harper's is that the entire history of the magazine is (for subscribers) available in PDF. Here's everything Lapham published there: https://harpers.org/author/lewishlapham/ https://harpers.org/author/lewishlapham/ And when I say entire history, I mean back to 1850 something. It's also indexed, subject tagged and searchable. If you search the archive for "Dickens" you'll see that several of his novels were published there originally in serial form, but you'll also find random non-fiction essays he published, as well as his contemporaries writing about him. It's kind of an extraordinary resource.
agarren 2y ago
https://archive.is/gE4dW https://archive.is/gE4dW
ccwu9999 2y ago
I first encountered Lapham in the Notebook column of Harper’s while avoiding studying in the magazine room at Uris Library. often Learned more about understanding the world from his missives than my coursework. He will be missed, the cliche of understanding the past is key to understanding the future was never more true.
- Jtsummers 2y ago
  A couple people (myself included) vouched for your comment. You should email the mods (contact link at the bottom) since you seem to be shadowbanned. This was probably because your first actions after creating your account was to submit a link to (your own) substack. You probably got caught by the spam filter.
muggermuch 2y ago
As a Harper's and Lapham's Quarterly subscriber, I have been a huge fan of his quirky editorial style. Specifically, I'd like to call out his podcast ("The World In Time"). Its past episodes remain treasure troves of wisdom, with LL's resonant voice asking the kind of engaging questions that are a rarity these days. Highly recommended.
keiferski 2y ago
Lapham, along with Gore Vidal (who died in 2012) were really some of the last public intellectuals that were intelligent and qualified enough to have nuanced, insightful takes on 90% of issues. Lapham in particular is relevant to HN because he was from the old money of San Francisco, long before tech happened. The SF he grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. Unfortunately one of the consequences of the ad and attention-based technocratic economy is that people like them aren’t valued anymore. Making silly memes or offensive jokes gets you about 10x the attention, and as far as I can tell, every platform is optimized for this. Even the better ones like Substack end up being dominated by loud people with narrow viewpoints.
- anovikov 2y ago
  I worked around it by moving the focus from online to printed press. Highly recommend. There's very little left online worth reading apart from niche indie websites that simply don't have enough audience to make them worthy of ensittifying.
  - hyperbolablabla 2y ago
    What printed publications do you recommend?
    - anovikov 2y ago
      Of course, that's individual, they have to fit one's worldview to be palatable. We are long past the time when a singular "objective truth" existed at all. For me for example, The Economist feels legit.
      - RandomThoughts3 2y ago
        That’s a weird take. A singular "objective truth" never existed. That’s the basis of historiography. Publications can be "palatable" while not fitting one’s "worldview". The goal of reading should be to be challenged. You can find interesting things anchored in many theoretical frameworks and I encourage people to read editorials spanning different political leanings. To answer the original comment, I personally read and enjoy The New Yorker and grab the LRB and the Economist from time to time on top of what I read in my native language.
karlgkk 2y ago
One of the editors who worked with him has started a Bookstore/Bar called Clio's in Oakland. If you're interested in picking up a copy of the quarterly in person, check it out.
blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Lapham’s Quarterly is great. Sad to hear about his passing. I also recall hearing that the publication would stop several months back but it seems like they’re still going?
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Looks as if LQ in print is on indefinite hiatus as of October 2023, though the online version continues to be updated AFAICT: <https://web.archive.org/web/20231129142353/https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/hiatus https://web.archive.org/web/20231129142353/https://www.lapha...>
AJRF 2y ago
Very sad to hear. Does anyone know where I could get issues of Laphams Quarterly in person in London? Anytime I look online the price is extortionate because it is coming from the US.
- keiferski 2y ago
  Try MagCulture, although LQ might actually be too mainstream for them to carry. (They have an awesome podcast too, if you’re interested in indie publishing: https://magculture.com/blogs/podcast https://magculture.com/blogs/podcast)
- xenocratus 2y ago
  Strangely (or maybe not?), we stumbled across Lapham's Quarterly in MAKEMAKECOFFEE next to Surrey Quays station. Also their coffee is amazing, so two reasons to go out of your way :) Edit: that was more than a year ago, though, so I'm not sure if they still carry it, but I'd hope so.
  - AJRF 2y ago
    Oh thanks - I will try that and report back!
- 5- 2y ago
  https://www.mayhewnews.co.uk/ https://www.mayhewnews.co.uk/ in belgravia at least used to stock the last issue or two. in fact it's where i've learned of lq!
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- waciki 2y ago
  It seems it's out of print: "Lapham's Quarterly was placed on an indefinite hiatus on November 3, 2023, citing "a combination of financial challenges". The most recent issue, titled "Energy", was released digitally."
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tigerlily 2y ago
Next time I'm asked for an example of someone who was prolific, I'll say Lewis Lapham!
afroisalreadyin 2y ago
I read Harper's Magazine for years without knowing who was behind it. The mixture of literary criticism, political analysis and in-depth reporting Lapham shaped was hard to top in terms of informativeness and calm inquisitiveness, something sorely missing from online media. The one piece of writing by Lapham that is etched into my mind is his introduction to McLuhan's Understanding Media [1], which helped me at last grasp how fundamental and unavoidable the "medium is the message" dictum is. RIP. [1] https://worrydream.com/refs/Lapham_1994_-_The_Eternal_Now.pdf https://worrydream.com/refs/Lapham_1994_-_The_Eternal_Now.pd...
pixelmonkey 2y ago
I am glad his "documentary film" got a mention. "In 2005, Mr. Lapham wrote and appeared in 'The American Ruling Class,' a documentary-style film featuring fictional characters as well as interviews with real celebrities, including Bill Bradley, Walter Cronkite, Pete Seeger, Robert Altman and Barbara Ehrenreich." Unfortunately as described it doesn't capture quite how unusual, innovative, and special this film is. It's a "dramatic-documentary-musical." A mixture of dramatic filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, and even some elements of musical. Its main topic/idea is to show two promising college students on graduation day, one pursuing a career of money and power (in high finance) and the other pursuing art (via writing). Lapham uses this lens to analyze all aspects of American society from a class and power direction. Mainly to show the draw of power and conformity for the college-educated elite, and the way a struggling working class subsidizes their ambitions with their labor. In the film, Lapham himself is both a narrator and a principal, acting as a mentor to one of the two "characters," who are played by actors, but thrown into conversation with real people, including some people holding powerful positions, and some intellectual celebrities. Ehrenreich, who had recently completed the book "Nickel and Dimed" (2001), in which she goes "undercover" as the working poor, has a role in the film, too. She "plays" the role of a worker at a restaurant, and she and the other workers, at one point, break out in song, a song titled "Nickel and Dimed." I read a review of this movie that called this scene "divine madness," and I agree. This is one of a small collection of movies I have on DVD, because it's so small and interesting as a film, that I rewatch it from time to time. I sometimes struggle to find it on streaming networks or online. It acts as a little bit of a life decoder for me, since I grew up as a public school educated child of immigrants with not-that-much class awareness, graduated from a top college around the time the film was made, got recruited to work on Wall Street (much as the film portrays in its opening scenes), then left a Wall Street job after 3 years to co-found and work on a tech startup for many years. Anyway, I was influenced by a lot of Lapham's work, especially his moral clarity in anti-war writing during the Iraq War years. But this one little film really stuck with me. RIP, Lewis Lapham.
- black_13 2y ago
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- js2 2y ago
ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
That is sad. I really feel the world needs curmudgeons like this. Especially, now.
dredmorbius 2y ago
LQ's own LL obit: <https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1935-2024 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1...>
toomuchtodo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham
feedforward 2y ago
Lapham: "America in 1957, I sought enlistment in the CIA and sat for an interview with a credentials committee...prepared for nothing less, I had spent the days prior to the interview reading about Lenin’s train...the width of the Fulda Gap, the depth of the Black Sea. None of the study was called for. Instead of being asked about the treaties of Brest-Litovsk or the October Revolution, I was asked...questions bearing on my social qualifications for admission into what the young men at the far end of the table clearly regarded as the best fraternity on the campus of the free world: 'When standing on the thirteenth tee at the National Golf Links in Southampton, which club does one take from the bag? On final approach under sail into Hay Harbor on Fishers Island, what is the direction (at dusk in late August) of the prevailing wind?'"
mtalantikite 2y ago
Wow, I had no idea his great-grandfather was one of the founders of Texaco. I guess that's how you get the money and time to start a publication! I subscribed to Harpers and the first few years of LQ when I was in college/early-20s. I wonder how I'd like it these days, but I appreciate what it did for me in those earlier years of development.
- ghaff 2y ago
  There are probably a fair number of these smaller premium publications that have existed in no small part because they're being bankrolled by some wealthy person as, if not quite a hobby, certainly adjacent to it.
  - mtalantikite 2y ago
    Oh, for sure. The first that comes to mind is the lit magazine and publisher Catapult, which was founded by a Koch heir. There are lots of others.
    - fotta 2y ago
      Another is Quanta magazine, funded by the Simons Foundation, funded by Jim Simons (RIP)
  - mturmon 2y ago
    The Nation is published and for many years was edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel), whose grandfather founded MCA (now Universal).
velcrovan 2y ago
Always loved this story about Lewis Lapham getting a bit of revenge: https://thelocalyarn.com/article/mr-lapham-gets-his-way https://thelocalyarn.com/article/mr-lapham-gets-his-way
nrh 2y ago
Listen to his charming and deeply entertaining story of his early years at SF Examiner, told at The Moth in 1999: https://themoth.org/stories/rookie-reporter https://themoth.org/stories/rookie-reporter 15 minutes you won't regret!
csours 2y ago
I wonder if there's going to be a social cycle where every 80 years we have to FAFO why authoritarianism is not such a good idea after all. It's easy to say something like 'War am Bad", but are you willing to be civil to sh*theads?
- complianceowl 2y ago
  I think a big problem we're facing is that there are competing definitions of what authoritarianism means. The Left says it's one thing, the Right says it's another. Even when politicians are confronted with the most concrete, indisputable facts on live television, they simply respond, "That's not true", and their "side", drowning in truth-averting ideology, responds with thunderous applause. I do believe that FAFO moment is coming, but it's going to come as a surprise to the folks that distorted the definition of authoritarianism and employed it as a dishonest attack against everyone who simply disagreed with their opinion.
  - ebiester 2y ago
    "Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy and political plurality. It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting." - Wikipedia is probably good enough here. Both-sidesism doesn't work here. Only one side is trying to make democratic voting more difficult, and it isn't the American liberals. Only one side is arguing that the rule of law should not apply to politicians in power, and it isn't the American liberals. You can make an argument that liberals are weaponizing social opinion, and you can completely critique liberals for a lot of things, but authoritarianism is disingenuous.
    - complianceowl 2y ago
      LOL - You're a case and point example of exactly what I am talking about. And bud, I never mentioned a political party -- but it sure looks like I struck a nerve somewhere with you. But it looks like the limits of your comprehension and ability to dialogue in an objective manner have been met. Ideology is a hell of a drug.
SnoJohn 2y ago
Here are his last two interviews. I hope I can be as insightful at that age. 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and-class-in-america/id1644964247?i=1000581589558 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and... 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcTLgnEEGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcTLgnEEGE

197 points by benbreen 2y ago

Loved his writing and curation. 89's a good run, but I'll miss him being around.

RIP. His opening essays in Laphams Quarterly were forming for me. I have quite a few of them on my bookshelf. Thank you for your contributions to our world.

bublyboi 2y ago
Thanks for mentioning Lapham’s Quarterly, I’m reading past issues now. Any other reading recommendations?
- ineptech 2y ago
  He wrote the "Notebook" column in Harper's magazine regularly for many years, and one of the very admirable things about Harper's is that the entire history of the magazine is (for subscribers) available in PDF. Here's everything Lapham published there: https://harpers.org/author/lewishlapham/ https://harpers.org/author/lewishlapham/ And when I say entire history, I mean back to 1850 something. It's also indexed, subject tagged and searchable. If you search the archive for "Dickens" you'll see that several of his novels were published there originally in serial form, but you'll also find random non-fiction essays he published, as well as his contemporaries writing about him. It's kind of an extraordinary resource.

agarren 2y ago

https://archive.is/gE4dW https://archive.is/gE4dW

ccwu9999 2y ago

I first encountered Lapham in the Notebook column of Harper’s while avoiding studying in the magazine room at Uris Library. often Learned more about understanding the world from his missives than my coursework. He will be missed, the cliche of understanding the past is key to understanding the future was never more true.

Jtsummers 2y ago
A couple people (myself included) vouched for your comment. You should email the mods (contact link at the bottom) since you seem to be shadowbanned. This was probably because your first actions after creating your account was to submit a link to (your own) substack. You probably got caught by the spam filter.

muggermuch 2y ago

As a Harper's and Lapham's Quarterly subscriber, I have been a huge fan of his quirky editorial style. Specifically, I'd like to call out his podcast ("The World In Time"). Its past episodes remain treasure troves of wisdom, with LL's resonant voice asking the kind of engaging questions that are a rarity these days. Highly recommended.

keiferski 2y ago

Lapham, along with Gore Vidal (who died in 2012) were really some of the last public intellectuals that were intelligent and qualified enough to have nuanced, insightful takes on 90% of issues. Lapham in particular is relevant to HN because he was from the old money of San Francisco, long before tech happened. The SF he grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. Unfortunately one of the consequences of the ad and attention-based technocratic economy is that people like them aren’t valued anymore. Making silly memes or offensive jokes gets you about 10x the attention, and as far as I can tell, every platform is optimized for this. Even the better ones like Substack end up being dominated by loud people with narrow viewpoints.

anovikov 2y ago
I worked around it by moving the focus from online to printed press. Highly recommend. There's very little left online worth reading apart from niche indie websites that simply don't have enough audience to make them worthy of ensittifying.
- hyperbolablabla 2y ago
  What printed publications do you recommend?
  - anovikov 2y ago
    Of course, that's individual, they have to fit one's worldview to be palatable. We are long past the time when a singular "objective truth" existed at all. For me for example, The Economist feels legit.
    - RandomThoughts3 2y ago
      That’s a weird take. A singular "objective truth" never existed. That’s the basis of historiography. Publications can be "palatable" while not fitting one’s "worldview". The goal of reading should be to be challenged. You can find interesting things anchored in many theoretical frameworks and I encourage people to read editorials spanning different political leanings. To answer the original comment, I personally read and enjoy The New Yorker and grab the LRB and the Economist from time to time on top of what I read in my native language.

karlgkk 2y ago

One of the editors who worked with him has started a Bookstore/Bar called Clio's in Oakland. If you're interested in picking up a copy of the quarterly in person, check it out.

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago

Lapham’s Quarterly is great. Sad to hear about his passing. I also recall hearing that the publication would stop several months back but it seems like they’re still going?

dredmorbius 2y ago
Looks as if LQ in print is on indefinite hiatus as of October 2023, though the online version continues to be updated AFAICT: <https://web.archive.org/web/20231129142353/https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/hiatus https://web.archive.org/web/20231129142353/https://www.lapha...>

AJRF 2y ago

Very sad to hear. Does anyone know where I could get issues of Laphams Quarterly in person in London? Anytime I look online the price is extortionate because it is coming from the US.

keiferski 2y ago
Try MagCulture, although LQ might actually be too mainstream for them to carry. (They have an awesome podcast too, if you’re interested in indie publishing: https://magculture.com/blogs/podcast https://magculture.com/blogs/podcast)
xenocratus 2y ago
Strangely (or maybe not?), we stumbled across Lapham's Quarterly in MAKEMAKECOFFEE next to Surrey Quays station. Also their coffee is amazing, so two reasons to go out of your way :) Edit: that was more than a year ago, though, so I'm not sure if they still carry it, but I'd hope so.
- AJRF 2y ago
  Oh thanks - I will try that and report back!
5- 2y ago
https://www.mayhewnews.co.uk/ https://www.mayhewnews.co.uk/ in belgravia at least used to stock the last issue or two. in fact it's where i've learned of lq!
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waciki 2y ago
It seems it's out of print: "Lapham's Quarterly was placed on an indefinite hiatus on November 3, 2023, citing "a combination of financial challenges". The most recent issue, titled "Energy", was released digitally."
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tigerlily 2y ago

Next time I'm asked for an example of someone who was prolific, I'll say Lewis Lapham!

afroisalreadyin 2y ago

I read Harper's Magazine for years without knowing who was behind it. The mixture of literary criticism, political analysis and in-depth reporting Lapham shaped was hard to top in terms of informativeness and calm inquisitiveness, something sorely missing from online media. The one piece of writing by Lapham that is etched into my mind is his introduction to McLuhan's Understanding Media [1], which helped me at last grasp how fundamental and unavoidable the "medium is the message" dictum is. RIP. [1] https://worrydream.com/refs/Lapham_1994_-_The_Eternal_Now.pdf https://worrydream.com/refs/Lapham_1994_-_The_Eternal_Now.pd...

pixelmonkey 2y ago

I am glad his "documentary film" got a mention. "In 2005, Mr. Lapham wrote and appeared in 'The American Ruling Class,' a documentary-style film featuring fictional characters as well as interviews with real celebrities, including Bill Bradley, Walter Cronkite, Pete Seeger, Robert Altman and Barbara Ehrenreich." Unfortunately as described it doesn't capture quite how unusual, innovative, and special this film is. It's a "dramatic-documentary-musical." A mixture of dramatic filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, and even some elements of musical. Its main topic/idea is to show two promising college students on graduation day, one pursuing a career of money and power (in high finance) and the other pursuing art (via writing). Lapham uses this lens to analyze all aspects of American society from a class and power direction. Mainly to show the draw of power and conformity for the college-educated elite, and the way a struggling working class subsidizes their ambitions with their labor. In the film, Lapham himself is both a narrator and a principal, acting as a mentor to one of the two "characters," who are played by actors, but thrown into conversation with real people, including some people holding powerful positions, and some intellectual celebrities. Ehrenreich, who had recently completed the book "Nickel and Dimed" (2001), in which she goes "undercover" as the working poor, has a role in the film, too. She "plays" the role of a worker at a restaurant, and she and the other workers, at one point, break out in song, a song titled "Nickel and Dimed." I read a review of this movie that called this scene "divine madness," and I agree. This is one of a small collection of movies I have on DVD, because it's so small and interesting as a film, that I rewatch it from time to time. I sometimes struggle to find it on streaming networks or online. It acts as a little bit of a life decoder for me, since I grew up as a public school educated child of immigrants with not-that-much class awareness, graduated from a top college around the time the film was made, got recruited to work on Wall Street (much as the film portrays in its opening scenes), then left a Wall Street job after 3 years to co-found and work on a tech startup for many years. Anyway, I was influenced by a lot of Lapham's work, especially his moral clarity in anti-war writing during the Iraq War years. But this one little film really stuck with me. RIP, Lewis Lapham.

black_13 2y ago
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js2 2y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

That is sad. I really feel the world needs curmudgeons like this. Especially, now.

dredmorbius 2y ago

LQ's own LL obit: <https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1935-2024 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1...>

toomuchtodo 2y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham

feedforward 2y ago

Lapham: "America in 1957, I sought enlistment in the CIA and sat for an interview with a credentials committee...prepared for nothing less, I had spent the days prior to the interview reading about Lenin’s train...the width of the Fulda Gap, the depth of the Black Sea. None of the study was called for. Instead of being asked about the treaties of Brest-Litovsk or the October Revolution, I was asked...questions bearing on my social qualifications for admission into what the young men at the far end of the table clearly regarded as the best fraternity on the campus of the free world: 'When standing on the thirteenth tee at the National Golf Links in Southampton, which club does one take from the bag? On final approach under sail into Hay Harbor on Fishers Island, what is the direction (at dusk in late August) of the prevailing wind?'"

mtalantikite 2y ago

Wow, I had no idea his great-grandfather was one of the founders of Texaco. I guess that's how you get the money and time to start a publication! I subscribed to Harpers and the first few years of LQ when I was in college/early-20s. I wonder how I'd like it these days, but I appreciate what it did for me in those earlier years of development.

ghaff 2y ago
There are probably a fair number of these smaller premium publications that have existed in no small part because they're being bankrolled by some wealthy person as, if not quite a hobby, certainly adjacent to it.
- mtalantikite 2y ago
  Oh, for sure. The first that comes to mind is the lit magazine and publisher Catapult, which was founded by a Koch heir. There are lots of others.
  - fotta 2y ago
    Another is Quanta magazine, funded by the Simons Foundation, funded by Jim Simons (RIP)
- mturmon 2y ago
  The Nation is published and for many years was edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel), whose grandfather founded MCA (now Universal).

velcrovan 2y ago

Always loved this story about Lewis Lapham getting a bit of revenge: https://thelocalyarn.com/article/mr-lapham-gets-his-way https://thelocalyarn.com/article/mr-lapham-gets-his-way

nrh 2y ago

Listen to his charming and deeply entertaining story of his early years at SF Examiner, told at The Moth in 1999: https://themoth.org/stories/rookie-reporter https://themoth.org/stories/rookie-reporter 15 minutes you won't regret!

csours 2y ago

I wonder if there's going to be a social cycle where every 80 years we have to FAFO why authoritarianism is not such a good idea after all. It's easy to say something like 'War am Bad", but are you willing to be civil to sh*theads?

complianceowl 2y ago
I think a big problem we're facing is that there are competing definitions of what authoritarianism means. The Left says it's one thing, the Right says it's another. Even when politicians are confronted with the most concrete, indisputable facts on live television, they simply respond, "That's not true", and their "side", drowning in truth-averting ideology, responds with thunderous applause. I do believe that FAFO moment is coming, but it's going to come as a surprise to the folks that distorted the definition of authoritarianism and employed it as a dishonest attack against everyone who simply disagreed with their opinion.
- ebiester 2y ago
  "Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy and political plurality. It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting." - Wikipedia is probably good enough here. Both-sidesism doesn't work here. Only one side is trying to make democratic voting more difficult, and it isn't the American liberals. Only one side is arguing that the rule of law should not apply to politicians in power, and it isn't the American liberals. You can make an argument that liberals are weaponizing social opinion, and you can completely critique liberals for a lot of things, but authoritarianism is disingenuous.
  - complianceowl 2y ago
    LOL - You're a case and point example of exactly what I am talking about. And bud, I never mentioned a political party -- but it sure looks like I struck a nerve somewhere with you. But it looks like the limits of your comprehension and ability to dialogue in an objective manner have been met. Ideology is a hell of a drug.

SnoJohn 2y ago

Here are his last two interviews. I hope I can be as insightful at that age. 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and-class-in-america/id1644964247?i=1000581589558 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and... 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcTLgnEEGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcTLgnEEGE