God I love Lewis Lapham. When he stepped down as editor of Harper’s this year, I was… well, mildly disappointed, since he’s still involved and since Roger Hodge seems like a fairly decent guy.
OK, I wasn’t disappointed at all. Harper’s is still like a little present from some idyllic futuristic society where everyone agrees about what’s stupid and people spend their time debating differences in opinion about what’s smartest.
I post this because yesterday in the mail I received the first issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, LL’s latest venture, whose tagline appears to be “The journal that enlists the counsel of the dead.” I haven’t read much of it yet, but for your amusement I’ll post the contents of the back cover:
Among the contributors:
Thucydides
William Shakespeare
Queen Elizabeth I
Eugene Sledge
Sun Tzu
Voltaire
Walt Whitman
Saint Augustine
George Orwell
Homer
General George Patton
Leo Tolstoy
Abraham Lincoln
Julia Ward Howe
Joseph Goebbels
Mark Twain
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