Conversations with History: Lewis Lapham
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harper’s Editor Emeritus Lewis Lapham fοr a discussion οf hіѕ career аnd thе history οf Harper’s Magazine. Lapham compares print tο electronic media, analyzes thе corruption οf language bу politics,аnd reflects οn thе incompatibility οf democracy аnd empire. Hе concludes wіth a devastating critique οf thе Bush administration аnd іtѕ impeachable offenses. Rυn: “Conversations wіth History” [12/2006] [Humanities] [Shοw ID: 12048]
Laphan , one of a kind: and at Harper’s… he answered his own buzz: unheard of ……
Harpers magazine makes me horribly depressed, and that’s why I like it!
This is Lewis Lapham at his better voice, at least for me. I find him in this very excellent interview, understandable and enjoyable.
He is a senior statesman of journalism, and the stature of the man’s dignity comes through. So does his clear moral voice, entertainingly so for my taste.
But then I always liked Lewis Lapham.
Peter Menkin
Mill Valley, CA USA
(north of San Francisco)
A brilliant and insightful fellow is Lewis Lapham. One never encounters this kind of deep thought in the mainstream media because the media, by it’s very nature precludes it… as Marshall McLuhan predicted. To truly know the world today we have to turn off the tv, read our history and initiation thinking for ourselves.. as our ancestors did.
Fantastic vid. thanks for posting it
Thanks so much for this
“History is a way of learning about ourselves as human beings….”
William Appleman Williams
why am i thinking of tom snyder?