The Living Past – ACLA

On 3rd April p.m. I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Lewis H. Lapham (1935 – 2024) in a rich conversation embracing the studia humanitatis, the past and present, and his vision for ACLA and its diverse community across the globe.

The editor and founder of Lapham’s Quarterly since 2007 and editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1975 to 2006, Lewis H. Lapham was a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. He authored fourteen books, including Money and Class in America, The Wish for Kings, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, and Age of Folly. He produced a weekly podcast, The World in Time, for Bloomberg News from 2011 through 2013. His documentary film The American Ruling Class has become part of the curriculum in many American schools and colleges. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Lapham lectured at Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Minnesota.

The saddening news of his death occurred on 23rd July 2024, reached me as I was transcribing the following passage from his The World in Time (2014, p. 16) to be included in the exhibition catalogue Legacies and Visions. From Comel to Karshan:

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