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Episode 21: The Friends of Attention
Listen now | "The Cold War laboratory research identified something real about humans: that we can focus on a stimulus on a screen. But it is hardly an…
Jan 16
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On the Rule of Law
Jan 13
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LQ in 2025: The Life and Work, Part 2
The history of attention, tyranny, and fear; Teju Cole and Italo Calvino on Medusa and the literary value of lightness; a portrait gallery of readings…
Jan 11
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LQ in 2025: The Life and Work, Part 1
A portrait gallery of readings: Lapham, Twain, Arendt, Emerson, Baldwin, Guggenheim.
Jan 4
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Encore Episode: Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams
Listen now | “He teaches you that one person can actually make a difference and that ideas actually matter.”
Jan 2
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LQ in 2025: “Moby Dick” & The Sea
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Dec 31, 2025
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Editorial Desk: "You offspring of a dunghill"; already in 1710, information "seemed new, fast, and out of control"; Socrates on old age; selections from…
Dec 28, 2025
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On Philanthropy
Dec 23, 2025
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Of a Dreamy Sabbath Afternoon
Editorial Desk: an encrypted communiqué from 1940; a Minoan bull's-head rhyton; an Elizabethan compendium; prisms "through which we remember what was…
Dec 21, 2025
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Episode 20: Charles King on Handel’s “Messiah”
Listen now | The sacred and profane--but mostly profane--history of Handel's famous oratorio.
Dec 19, 2025
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Of a Dreamy Sabbath Afternoon
The Lapham's Quarterly Holiday Sale: recommended pairings of books and back-issues for all the bibliophiles and armchair historians in your life.
Dec 14, 2025
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On States of Mind
Dec 9, 2025
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