Lewis Lapham Books
Lights, Camera, Democracy!
By Lewis H. Lapham, Lewis Lapham
For fifteen years, Lewis Lapham has written a monthly column in Harper's Magazine, for which he won a 1995 National Magazine Award for his "exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity." This...
Read MoreLapham's Rules of Influence
By Lewis Lapham
As the editor of Harper's Magazine, Lewis Lapham has enjoyed entrée to America's "cultural elite," a class distinguished by its talent for currying favor, licking boots, and kissing ass. Now,...
Read MoreAge of Folly
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terrorIn twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles...
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