Tag: By Lewis Lapham
Lewis Lapham: The Servant Problem: In Search of the Lost Battalion of America’s Unemployed
April 2011 |
For how else could the American leaves of grass join their top-dressed companions on a golf course unless they borrowed money? |
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It (and Don’t Forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff)
December 2010 |
“On passing a newsstand these days I think of funeral parlors and Tutankhamen’s tomb. The celebrities pictured on the covers of the magazines line up as if in a row of ceremonial grave goods, exquisitely prepared for burial within the tomb of a democratic republic that died of eating disco balls.” |
