The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. - Lewis H. Lapham
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
- Lewis H. Lapham
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class. - Lewis H. Lapham
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselv… - Lewis H. Lapham
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselv…
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. - Lewis H. Lapham
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.
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In … - Lewis H. Lapham
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In …
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 … - Lewis H. Lapham
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 …
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business… - Lewis H. Lapham
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business…
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. - Lewis H. Lapham
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength … - Lewis H. Lapham
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength …
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