And What We’ve Lost
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[This essay will appear in "Animals," the Spring 2013 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]
London housewife Barbara Carter won a “grant a wish”...
(13) Comments | Posted December 10, 2012 | 8:45 AM
Why the War on Drugs Is a War on Human Nature
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[This essay will appear in "Intoxication," the Winter 2012 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]
The question that...
(337) Comments | Posted September 20, 2012 | 11:05 AM
How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy
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[A longer version of this essay appears in "Politics," the Fall 2012 issue of Lapham's Quarterly; this slightly shortened version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]
All...
(116) Comments | Posted June 25, 2012 | 10:22 AM
Magic and the Machine
Living in an American Age of Techno-Wonder and Unreason
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[A longer version of this essay appears in "Magic Shows," the Summer 2012 issue of Lapham's Quarterly, and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the...
(37) Comments | Posted April 23, 2012 | 4:30 PM
Word Order: The Internet as the Toy With a Tin Ear
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
-- Emperor Charles V
But in which language does one speak to a...
(28) Comments | Posted June 13, 2011 | 1:52 PM
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[A longer version of this essay appears in "Food," the Summer 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]
Jesus answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word...
(213) Comments | Posted April 4, 2011 | 3:01 PM
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Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man. -- Henry George
The news media these days look to outperform one...
(11) Comments | Posted December 13, 2010 | 12:37 PM
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[A longer version of this essay appears in "Celebrity," the Winter 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly.]
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
-- William Shakespeare
Label celebrity a...
(0) Comments | Posted June 8, 2010 | 12:03 PM
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“The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.” -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Rosenstock-Huessy was a German army officer in World War I, afterward a professor of medieval law in Breslau until the Nazis acquired the franchise in 1933....
(9) Comments | Posted March 15, 2010 | 3:38 PM
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Art as a medium of exchange is the gift in the hand of its creator, alive in the mind of its beholder, converting the private to a public good, and thereby adding it to the common store of human energy and hope. It’s the embodiment...
(137) Comments | Posted March 12, 2013 | 10:10 AM