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Easy Chair

Fischer, John

by Harper’s Staff,

The American courtier

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Further reflections on the customs of the tribe

Pomp and circumstance

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The market in kings

Perspectives of flight

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Notes for a journal

The melancholy herd

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Further thoughts on the American bedouin

The American bedouin

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On the seductions of barbarism

The Arabian oil bubble

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Exploiting the belief in perfidious Araby

Hostages to fortune

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On the American grudge against children

“La ComÃ©die humaine”

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The barbarian within

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On the presumption of modernity

Deadly virtue

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The willful innocence of Jimmy Carter

The retreat from democracy

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Veblen revisited

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Beggar’s opera

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Rumors of war

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Keepers of the flame

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The black man’s burden

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Point of order

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Confusion worse confounded

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The language of Mammon

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Auld lang syne

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Fear of heights

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Answering the mail

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Random numbers

by Lewis H. Lapham,

A nation of dreamers

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The Wizard of Oz

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Received ideas

by Lewis H. Lapham,

City lights

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Card tricks

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The art of innocence

by Lewis H. Lapham,

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