Q&A with Lewis Lapham [Boston Globe]
[Boston Globe Ideas section, November 4, 2007]
MACHIAVELLI PREDICTED THE Blackwater debacle. The Qing dynasty’s homeland security experts knew Great Walls make for great neighbors. Riding the rails was safer in Joseph Conrad’s, not today’s, Congo.
Few literary heavyweights cast their wit about like Lewis Lapham, 72, and fewer still are capable of publishing an independent historical journal that wears its anachronisms so gleefully. The journalism legend and erstwhile Harper’s editor is…