http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ A Magazine of History and Ideas en Copyright 2012 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:55:59 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Delve into the history of DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English, with LQ contributor Simon Winchester and DARE chief editor Joan Hall.. Delve into the history of DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English, with LQ contributor Simon Winchester and DARE chief editor Joan Hall. Listen to the LQ Podcast Subscribe on http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-dare.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-dare.php Audio & Video Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:55:59 -0500 May 3, 2012. Our editor Lewis H. Lapham joins London Review of Books editor Mary Kay Wilmers for a discission about family and historical memory. Wilmers is the recent author of of http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/events-news/lewis-lapham-at-192-books.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/events-news/lewis-lapham-at-192-books.php Events & News Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:03:35 -0500 Andy Zaltzman, comedian and co-host of The Bugle podcast reads passages from LQ about some of antiquity's looniest despots. Featuring the maniacal musical career of Nero, the sexual habits of Caligula, and the sporting life as practiced by Commodus.. Andy Zaltzman, comedian and co-host of the fantastic Bugle podcast reads passages from LQ about some of antiquity's looniest despots. Featuring the maniacal musical career of Nero, the sexual habits http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-andy-zaltzman.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-andy-zaltzman.php Audio & Video Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:05:33 -0500 by Lewis H. Lapham. 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 machine, http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/preamble/word-order.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/preamble/word-order.php Preamble Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:04:43 -0500 2008 / New York City. The first thing I did on Wikipedia (under the username Wageless) was to make some not-very-good edits to the page on bovine somatotropin. I clicked the “edit this page” http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/nicholson-bakers-last-stand.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/nicholson-bakers-last-stand.php Voices in Time Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:20:48 -0500 213 BC / Qin. In earlier times the empire disintegrated and fell into disorder, and no one was capable of unifying it. Thereupon the various feudal lords rose to power. In their discourses http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/spring-cleaning.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/spring-cleaning.php Voices in Time Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:25:31 -0500 c. 1190 BC / Argos. Clytemnestra: You shall know joy beyond all you ever hoped to hear. The men of Argos have taken Priam’s citadel. Chorus: What have you said? Your words escaped my http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/instant-messaging.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/instant-messaging.php Voices in Time Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:33:15 -0500 c. 1860 / United States. In the spring of 1860, Bolivar Roberts, superintendent of the western division of the Pony Express, went to Carson City, Nevada, to engage riders and station agents for the http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/horsepower.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/horsepower.php Voices in Time Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:38:35 -0500 1312 / Vienne. Clement, bishop, servant of the servants of God. In perpetual memory of the matter. Imitating the example of Him whose place on earth we unworthily fill who wished the http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/spreading-the-word.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/spreading-the-word.php Voices in Time Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:41:47 -0500 1751 / Paris. You know, at least you have heard, of a singular machine with which the inventor proposed to give sonatas in color. I thought that if anyone could appreciate a http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/synesthesia.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/synesthesia.php Voices in Time Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:53:39 -0500 1841 / Equatorial Guinea. As we had often heard that the natives could hold musical dialogs even at great distances by means of little gourd flutes, we prevailed on them to separate, while http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/drum-circle.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/drum-circle.php Voices in Time Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:57:21 -0500 1961 / Washington, DC. Ours has been called the jet age, the atomic age, the space age. It is also, I submit, the television age. And just as history will decide whether the http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/breaking-the-bad-news.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/breaking-the-bad-news.php Voices in Time Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:59:33 -0500 1798 / Richmond. Resolved: That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution in the two late cases of the “alien and sedition acts,” passed at http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/dissenting-opinion.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/dissenting-opinion.php Voices in Time Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:03:55 -0500 1846 / Paris. The most remarkable and strangest thing we saw in the House of Physics was a force that carries news from one place to another in an instant with complete http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/new-media.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/new-media.php Voices in Time Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:05:47 -0500 1922 / New York City. The unseen environment is reported to us chiefly by words. These words are transmitted by wire or radio from the reporters to the editors who fit them into print. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/seen-but-not-heard.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/seen-but-not-heard.php Voices in Time Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:21:29 -0500 1915 / Congers, NY. Wireless is a thrilling pastime. Fancy a boy sitting in his room at home with his fingers on a telegraph key and a telephone receiver to his ear listening-in http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/turn-on-tune-in.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/turn-on-tune-in.php Voices in Time Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:46:42 -0500 2011 / Cairo. Mahmoud Salem @Sandmonkey For when and where the revolution will be and other important info, go here: http://bit.ly/Jan25egypt 09:51:18 p.m. Jan 24 Hossam @3arabawy streets r empty. Police r http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/to-the-barricades.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/to-the-barricades.php Voices in Time Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:03:29 -0500 1854 / Concord . Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/nothing-to-say.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/nothing-to-say.php Voices in Time Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:27:01 -0500 1992 / Washington, DC. Memorandum To: Clinton Campaign From: Mandy and Frank Date: April 27, 1992 Re: Free Media Scheduling We have spoken generally about the need to do pop-culture shows like Johnny http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/media-saturation.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/media-saturation.php Voices in Time Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:38:04 -0500 c. 350 / Syria. A grammarian lost his balance and fell off his donkey and, it was said, lost the gift of grammar too. From that day on he lived an ordinary life as http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/falling-off-the-donkey.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/falling-off-the-donkey.php Voices in Time Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:43:45 -0500 1518 / Wittenberg. To the learned Herr Christoph Scheurl, my esteemed friend in Christ, my greeting! I have received two letters from you, along with a present from that superior man, Albrecht Dürer, http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/martin-luther-goes-viral.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/martin-luther-goes-viral.php Voices in Time Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:48:54 -0500 c. 1725 / Atlantic Ocean. My master used to read prayers in public to the ship’s crew every Sabbath day, and when I first saw him read, I was never so surprised in my life http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/talking-book.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/talking-book.php Voices in Time Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:07:10 -0500 1871 / Oxford. There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, “For it’s all in some language http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/close-reading.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/close-reading.php Voices in Time Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:23:21 -0500 1821 / Pisa. Language, color, form, and religious and civil habits of action are all the instruments and materials of poetry; they may be called poetry by that figure of speech which considers http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-imperial-faculty.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-imperial-faculty.php Voices in Time Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:21:15 -0500 c. 1965 / San Quentin, CA. Talk about hypocrisy: you should see the library. We are allowed to order—from the state library—only nonfiction and law books. Of the law books, we can only order books containing http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/no-sex-in-the-prison-library.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/no-sex-in-the-prison-library.php Voices in Time Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:29:24 -0500 David Javerbaum, former head writer of The Daily Show and current mortal secretary to God, talks about God's latest book, the hilarious "telleth-all" The Last Testament.. David Javerbaum, former head writer of The Daily Show and current mortal secretary to God, talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about God's latest book, the hilarious "telleth-all" The Last http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-david-javerbaum.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audio-video/lq-podcast-david-javerbaum.php Audio & Video Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:46:34 -0500 1651 / London. The invention of “printing,” though ingenious, compared with the invention of “letters,” is no great matter. But who was the first that found the use of letters is not known. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/trains-of-thought.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/trains-of-thought.php Voices in Time Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:35:43 -0500 1906 / Washington, DC. Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can’t find you. Conversation, n. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/redefined.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/redefined.php Voices in Time Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:18:31 -0500 1896 / Shanghai. Those who discuss the affairs of the times nowadays either call for the restoration of the old Zhou rituals or for renewal through Western learning. Although what they speak of http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/in-the-names-of-progress.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/in-the-names-of-progress.php Voices in Time Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:51:59 -0500 1985 / Paris. The situation being extraordinarily complex, the writer, if he really wants to write, if he wants to hone his craft, must face the splitting of the mind, the supping with http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/to-keep-the-word-alive.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/to-keep-the-word-alive.php Voices in Time Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:56:12 -0500