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Lewis Lapham

Lewis Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham is the founding Editor of Lapham’s Quarterly and the Editor Emeritus of Harper’s. His columns received the National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting “an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity,” and, in 2002, the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2007. His other books include Money and Class in America, Fortune’s Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, and Pretensions to Empire.


The Revolution Won’t Be Televised

Lewis Lapham on the Degradation of a Powerful Political Concept
November 3, 2016  By Lewis Lapham
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