Stories by Lewis Lapham

Why Do We Need Celebrity "Gods" to Rescue Us?

Posted on Dec 12, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

Transposed into the realm of politics, the greater images of celebrity bestow an aura of stability and calm upon a world disfigured by the frown lines of death and time.

Is the Myth of City Life More Significant Than the Real City Itself?

Posted on Sep 8, 2010, Source: Lapham's Quarterly

The city, as we imagine it -- myth, aspiration, nightmare -- is maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps and statistics.

We Expect Immortality From Medicine -- and It's Destroying Our Health

Posted on Sep 24, 2009, Source: Lapham's Quarterly

Our quest for eternal youth enables the country's dependence on a broken medical industrial complex.