June 1979 Issue [The Easy Chair] A juggernaut of words Download PDF Adjust Share In the empty theater of ideas by Lewis H. Lapham, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Authorship Books and reading Intellectual life Publishers and publishing Sociological aspects United States More from Lewis H. Lapham The Letters of Lewis H. Lapham and Henry A. Kissinger July 30, 1979 Dear Dr. Kissinger: I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation at lunch last month, and I hope that we have an occasion sometime in the fall to extend and… Mists of Wish and Dream From the Editor’s Notebook that appeared in the June 1988 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The news from… There’s Another Ex-President Who Needs to Be Arrested! Lewis Lapham discusses George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and democracy Adjust Share