Podcast appearances and mentions of Lewis Lapham

“They would take you around, introduce you to all of their contacts, translate for you, and help you put together the story,” says scholar-journalist Kira Brunner Don in this week's episode of The World in Time. “And I often felt like, you pay them, of course, a day rate, but there was this understanding that real news was made by American journalists who flew in and told you what was what. All of us were depending on journalists from the country, or writers from the country, who knew it far better than we did and really had the context and the sensibility. But there was this unspoken rule that they'll be biased. I really felt like I wanted to create something that instead focused on the actual voices of the people who live in the countries we're covering.” This week on the podcast Donovan Hohn hosts a two-part episode. First, he speaks with Kira Brunner Don, former executive editor of Lapham's Quarterly, about the making of our first issue, States of War, from Winter 2008, and about the magazine Brunner Don edits now, Stranger's Guide. In part two of this episode, Hohn speaks with Nathan Brown, translator of Verso's new dual-language edition of Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, about the history of Baudelaire's magnum opus. Brown gives us a guided tour of “Recueillement,” the Baudelaire poem read at Lewis Lapham's memorial service, which Brown has translated anew for Lapham's Quarterly, under the title “Introspection.”

“Lewis was always engaging with some important piece of literature from the past,” says historian and classicist Emily Allen-Hornblower in this episode of The World in Time, edited from audio recorded at the memorial service held for Lewis H. Lapham in September 2024. “You can be chatting about the insanity of the current political landscape and quickly things would shift to how history repeats itself, how humanity simply does not learn. And Thucydides or Cicero would rear their heads. To quote Cicero, ‘To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?' Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present. He made himself a warrior for the humanities, putting up a splendid fight on behalf of the arts and letters. 'Til the end.” In this second of two episodes this week, we are joined once again by Lewis, first in the tributes and remembrances of his friends and colleagues and then in his own voice. Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis introduces the proceedings. Former Harper's Magazine literary editor Ben Metcalf recalls Lapham the mentor. Emily Allen-Hornblower reads from Homer and Baudelaire. Actor Alec Baldwin reads Mark Twain's essay “At the Funeral.” Actor Christopher Lloyd performs Prospero's epilogue from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Producer and director Sandy Gotham Meehan shares a letter by Flaubert. In audio from our archives, Lewis Lapham reads from “'Round Midnight,” his preamble to Music, the Fall 2017 issue of Lapham's Quarterly.

“I'm an essayist, not a podcaster,” says Lapham's Quarterly acting editor Donovan Hohn, “but then the same could be said of Lewis, who took the form and the medium of the podcast and did with it what he'd done all of his adulthood: have conversations with people whose voices he wished to hear. Seasoned listeners to The World in Time may rest assured that similar conversations will resume shortly. This episode, my first behind the microphone, won't be a conversation, but it will be a duet. I'll be sharing the microphone some with Lewis Lapham.” This week on the podcast Donovan Hohn hosts two episodes devoted to the life, career, and memory of our founding editor, Lewis H. Lapham. In this first episode, Hohn announces the Quarterly's plans for Summer 2025, shares excerpts from a keynote address Lapham delivered at Bard College's Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities in 2011, pays tribute to Lapham the essayist, and gives an account of the months preceding and following Lewis' death in July 2024.

Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with Anne Kim, contributing editor at Washington Monthly magazine, to discuss her recent book Poverty For Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America's Poor. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Trump-Harris polling, the fight over Harris' platform, continuing Israeli escalation in the Middle East, Russia's offensive, Iowa's abortion ban, Venezuela's election, environmental crisis, and the passing of Lewis Lapham, before parsing a little deeper through the GOP's panic over Trump's VP Flub with JD Vance. Anne Kim then joins, diving right into the role of one Emanuel Savas in publishing and popularizing the drive to privatize government services in their totality, pushing the budding neoliberal belief in the efficiency of the market, and successfully pushing his ideology all the way to the White House with the election of Ronald Reagan, before stepping back to look at what these social services entail – everything from prison to air traffic to healthcare – and how much of the US economy they make up. Expanding on this, Kim explores how the privatization of these social services aimed at impoverished communities results in astounding failures on the supply side, using examples from earned income tax credits, job training and the Job Corps, Medicaid/Medicare and Dialysis, and Section 8 Housing to demonstrate how the privatization of these services allows for easy capture of the market by for-profit providers, and results in exploitative institutions that push bad products onto people with little to no other choice. After tackling some of the more devastating material impacts of these failures of neoliberalism, Kim, Sam, and Emma wrap up by tackling the major ideological shift that is needed in US politics to rethink how and why we provide social services. And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma unpack Israel's continuing war crimes in Gaza, shifting rhetoric on Israel in the West, and Jimmy Dore's insane take on why Trump is the true pro-Palestine candidate. They also dive deep into Biden's new plan to reform the Supreme Court, and the GOP's continuing struggle not to be obvious bigots about Kamala Harris. Barstool and Babylon Bee beef over JD Vance, enthusiasm for Harris is rising, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Anne's book here: https://thenewpress.com/books/poverty-for-profit Follow Anne on Twitter here: https://x.com/Anne_S_Kim Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Join Sam on the Nation Magazine Cruise! 7 days in December 2024!!: https://nationcruise.com/mr/ Check out the "Repair Gaza" campaign courtesy of the Glia Project here: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/rebuild_gaza_help_repair_and_rebuild_the_lives_and_work_of_our_glia_team#!/ Check out StrikeAid here!; https://strikeaid.com/ Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: Prolon: Right now, Prolon is offering The Majority Report with Sam Seder listeners 15% off their 5-day nutrition program. Go to https://ProlonLife.com/MAJORITY.  That's https://ProlonLife.com/MAJORITY for this special offer. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

GUEST OVERVIEW: After a long string of award-winning productions for major broadcast outlets, Director John Kirby and Producer Libby Handros joined forces twenty years ago to make the festival-darling BBC classic The American Ruling Class, starring Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham. Four Died Trying explores the extraordinary lives and calamitous deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy.

HEALTH NEWS   Omega-3 levels linked with lung health maintenance Turmeric Extract Strikes to the Root Cause of Cancer Malignancy Type 2 diabetes: Ultra-processed foods may cancel out benefits of Mediterranean diet  Vasectomy linked with aggressive prostate cancer risk Drinking kombucha may reduce blood sugar levels in people with type-two diabetes The magic number: How many days a week you need to exercise to see real benefit Survival in the New Woke Order Authors Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null “We have this ability in Lake Wobegon to look reality right in the eye and deny it.” -- Garrison Keillor     Keen observers of history realize that the US and the West have entered a new Dark Age. The light of reason and the capacities for critical thought are rapidly being snuffed out by widespread emotional immaturity.  The erosion of American culture has largely been the result of a decades' long merger of adolescent attitudes and the corporate commodification of human life and values. Mass culture, Hannah Arendt observed, was not culture but personal entertainment, or better stated self-aggrandizement. Our civilizational collapse into intellectual darkness and the catastrophic failure in democracy were presciently predicted by many of our wisest cultural critics such as Lewis Lapham, Morris Berman, and Robert Kaplan two decades ago.  Likewise, earlier works of science fiction such as Fahrenheit 451, The Perfect Day and The Canticle for Leibowitz describe not only the dystopian triumph of a puerile citizenry blindly subservient to the tricks and treats disbursed by an elite corporate and political class, but also the consequences of the intentional disorientation of a distracted human mind. Aldous Huxley perfectly predicted our times in Brave New World. Hungarian-born journalist and author Arthur Koestler (d. 1983) envisioned a future America being populated with human automatons in a replay of the fall of the Roman Empire; at such time the US will have turned into a “soulless, politically corrupt, everybody-for-himself civilization.” Although these modern critics and fiction authors may not have foreseen the exact structures and popular social values society has now transitioned into, such as the worst expressions of critical race theory's inverted racism, institutionalized woke culture, endemic mental disorders, and growing gender dysphoria, they nevertheless accurately observed the trends that have led America to this impasse of moral anarchy.  Critical race theory and the woke movement will never democratize society; rather it will further erode universal ethical norms to a cacophony of subjective emotions and aberrant personal beliefs felt at any given moment. These mythologies about race and gender, which are mistaken for hard truths, now permeate our elementary schools and universities, which are being fashioned into what Morris Berman calls “a gigantic dolt-manufacturing machine.” And the global elite, political legislators and pseudo-intellectuals dominating our educational institutions, willingly or not, declare this feat of social deterioration as a political victory. At the core of our society's collective daze in the marketplace of frivolous pursuits resides a deep existential emptiness. In particular this vacuity of a life enriched by meaning and purpose is being acted out by the younger generations.  In 2022, the national suicide rate again rose to 14.3 suicides per 100,000; two years earlier 5.2 million either planned or attempted to take their lives. The prevalence of gender dysphoria continues to rise significantly and starts at younger ages. Although the percentage of people either professionally or self diagnosed, with gender dysphoria remains very small, it has nevertheless been raised to a level of national priority at the expense of other mentally and physically handicapped persons that make up 27 percent of the population.  This brief reference above noting the consequences of the dark abyss at the center of American culture only highlights a small sliver of the consequences of the intellectual ignorance underlying critical race theory and woke culture. During the past five years, there has been an aggressive encroachment of woke and postmodern race ideologies into every aspect of society: local school boards, college campuses, corporations' human resources, and the halls of federal and state legislative bodies. The leaders of this trend are by no means our culture's best and brightest; rather those are the first to find themselves cancelled or handed their termination papers. Rather it is the activists who shout the loudest who manage to be heard. Those of us who critically recognize social dynamics observe this hysterical phenomenon with credulous amusement. When Tucker Carlson reports about a woman who wouldn't change a baby's diaper unless she received the infant's permission, the sane among us step back and wonder what the hell is going on. Self-righteous university students demand professors abide by their demands and teach only what they want. Those teachers who stand up for educational integrity and the teaching profession's tradition, are ostracized. Students petition college administrators to have dissenting un-woke professors fired.  What is especially notable is how rapidly this raging woke and inverse racist movement has become incorporated into our public and private institutions.  This includes the adolescent tantrums by political parties to censor their opponents, pass laws banning certain kinds of free speech and the gradual erasure of social norms of binding relationships that fueled the founding of the nation. None of this could have happened if the majority of Americans were not asleep. In the twenty-first century we can agree that equality is crucial for harmonizing the historical aberrations such as slavery and the denigration of women and gays that have haunted us through the generations. Everyone should be able to have the opportunity to succeed in reaching their goals. However, despite the new woke and critical race movements' condemnation of meritocracy, its followers demand the same out come.  Of course, once Rome passed a certain threshold after several centuries of decline, its final collapse accelerated quickly.  This is the nature of entropy. Aside from the enormous disparity in wealth between Rome's social classes, a perpetual war economy, widespread political corruption and the decline in literacy, Roman society was also plagued by a mental virus of magical thinking and superstition. In our own time, the level of American illiteracy is astounding. The average American likewise lives in a garbage heap of superstitious hopes for a utopian carnival where a superficial free thought reigns; however, at the same time a future utopia requires a new vocabulary and the banning of words the new woke order finds personally offensive. Following the warnings of social psychologist Leon Festinger in the 1950s, the American populace is being “deindividuated.” Deindividuation is a state whereby individuals lose their sense of self-awareness and their realistic and healthy personal identity in order to become part of a crowd that opposes other crowds. Normal moral restraints are cast aside and replaced by impulsive and deviant behavior. The entire woke narrative now giving way to antisocial behavior is a notable consequence of the deindividuation being approved by government and private industry. Deindividuation reinforces illiteracy and blatant stupidity. For example, when Democrats brought Aimee Arrambide, an executive for an abortion rights organization, before the House Judiciary Committee to give testimony, she claimed men could get pregnant and have abortions. Again we are reminded of Jefferson's words “Illiteracy is the enemy of progress and the ally of tyranny.” Dr. Henry Nasrallah, editor in chief of the journal Current Psychiatry, remarks that we are in a historical moment when “the passage of time ruthlessly increases the entropy of everything in life.”  We not only witness entropy in civilizations and societies, but also in our possessions, dwellings, businesses, and our physical body and mental faculties. Therefore, new energy must be invested in order to slow or reverse entropic processes. Yet without the restraints of a new constructive and restorative vision, entropy runs amok. During the dramatic public shock triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns, social distancing, business and school closures, and financial loss, there was a parade of incessant media porn reminded us repeatedly that death could knock on our door at any moment. The federal government's and medical establishment's gross negligence on multiple fronts during the pandemic gave rise to a rapid degeneration of America's social order. Distress from the loss of normalcy accelerated the nation's collective psychological entropy; this in turn contributed to resurrected racial tensions, hateful biases, toxic relationships, drug addiction and suicide, permissible crime, homelessness, rampant disinformation across mainstream media, the implosion of social norms, a psychological disoriented citizenry and a ruthless cancel culture that is utterly intolerant of others' beliefs. Remarkably, the mobs in the street are little more than bland reflections, a Jungian shadow, of the instability and disorder created by the agents of chaos and entropy who sit in the seats of power. “Just as the individual has a shadow,” wrote Jung, “so does society at large. And just as the individual must come to terms with his shadow so too must society if it is to be healthy and whole.” The rising psychological deindividuation and existential angst infecting our youth over their self-identity, gender, moral alienation and a lack of existential purpose in our technological driven materialistic society has reduced our youth to sentient robots screaming for self-expression.  This is a cause for today's woke groupthink contributing to social and political unrest with its destructive outcomes. Or as Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell warned, the “collective passions” have a penchant to inflame “hatred and rivalry directed towards other groups.” Despite the original values of American liberalism and non-dogmatic healthy skeptical inquiry, today's Left has perverted its own legacy.  The woke have become every bit as intolerant and wrong-headed as the most zealous fundamentalist on the Right. This “exclusivist humanism,” as the prominent cultural philosopher Charles Taylor has termed it, is giving rise to a faux universalism. The new woke order's myopic obeisance increasingly relies on the secular power structure of the ruling elite that in turn legislates on its behalf to marginalize and imprison alternative belief systems that do not embrace a secular universalism. Hence the new radical Left no longer tolerates the diversity of traditional beliefs and worldviews. The entropic descent into irrational hostility, collective emotional hysteria, and what the Russian-American sociologist Pritrim Sorokin called  “cultural schizophrenia,” clings desperately to a grossly materialistic society and a fragile false sense of individuality, an empty void, which is completely divorced from any deeper purpose in life. America is a “society in chains,” an expression stated by Nelson Mandela to describe a citizenry psychologically crippled for making informed decisions and incapable of participating thoughtfully in a democratic process. Consequently, a democratic renaissance, a new energy to reverse entropy, can only proceed following a revitalization of moral and spiritual values that have universal appeal, which respects pluralist ideals both within and beyond national borders. To be worthy of participating in any viable possibility for a democracy in the 21st century, it is necessary to return to becoming John Adams' “moral people.”

A little after the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, Lewis Lapham discusses three essays he wrote during the George W. Bush era. With fine prose and razor-edged contempt for war, lies, and complacent members of the commentariat, each article captures a distinctive historical moment. “The American Rome” (August 2001): https://harpers.org/archive/2001/08/the-american-rome/ “Cause for Dissent” (April 2003): https://harpers.org/archive/2003/04/cause-for-dissent/ “Going by the Book” (November 2006): https://harpers.org/archive/2006/11/going-by-the-book/ Subscribe to Harper's for only $16.97: harpers.org/save

Today we are speaking to Lewis Lapham, author of the book Money and Class in America - Notes and Observations on Our Civil Religion. We talk about his views on wealth, growing up in a wealthy family, and how Donald Trump showed up at his book party in 1988. Lewis was the longtime editor of Harper's Magazine, and author of over a dozen books. He is currently founder and editor of Lapham's Quarterly. FOLLOW Lewis: @laphamsquart Lapham's Quarterly: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ Thanks for listening. Please subscribe or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it.

Today Nathan is joined by legendary former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham. Lapham is the author of numerous books including Money and Class in America, Age of Folly, and Lapham's Rules of Influence. He currently edits Lapham's Quarterly. He also wrote and starred in the delightfully strange documentary/musical The American Ruling Class. He was called "without doubt our greatest satirist" by Kurt Vonnegut, is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame, and went to India with the Beatles. The New York Times once called him "amusing." Lapham's books focus heavily on the culture of the American financial and political elite. In Money and Class in America he writes about his own privileged upbringing and the spiritual emptiness of life among those who see price as synonymous with value. We discuss:- The way that rich people go to great lengths to pretend they don't care about money even when it's the main thing they care about- The shallowness of an Ivy League education, and the emphasis on networking over learning anything valuable- How journalists self-censor to avoid hurting their access to the powerful- The social effects of having a publishing industry that cares far more about marketable books than good ones- Why David Graeber and David Wengrow's new book The Dawn of Everything offers a hopeful vision for a possible alternative society that does not worship money and consumer goods 

John J. Miller is joined by Lewis Lapham to discuss Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander.'

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to artist and cartoonist Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish, about the cultural requirement for revolution. Mr. Fish's new book is ‘Nobody Left – Conversations with Famous Radicals, Progressives and Cultural Icons About the End of Dissent, Revolution and Liberalism in America’. Among those featured are: Joan Baez, Wavy Gravy, Lewis Lapham, Paul Krassner, Tariq Ali, Robert Scheer, Dennis Kucinich, Norman Mailer, Howard Zinn, Abbie Hoffman, Jon Stewart, and Lenny Bruce.

GB&U, gay pro wrestlter, Scientific American - Truth vs Lies, economists vs epidemiologists, David Brooks op-ed ignores Big Tech - right wing alliance, Lewis Lapham 2004 classic article Tentacles of Rage on the funding of the American right wing

GB&U, gay pro wrestlter, Scientific American - Truth vs Lies, economists vs epidemiologists, David Brooks op-ed ignores Big Tech - right wing alliance, Lewis Lapham 2004 classic article Tentacles of Rage on the funding of the American right wing

APRIL 13, 2020 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! In a week we get the mythical pairing of Corddry and Carell, and a magical Daily Show fridge fish puppet named Gilly… but nary a Bush Impression to be found! The Daily Show Weekly is an unofficial fan podcast designed to serve as a critical companion to the original series, which can be watched in clips at CC.com. Our thoughts and criticism are intended to offer historical reflection and enhance the viewing experience for new and old fans journeying through Jon Stewart’s seminal talk show run. Our awesome album artwork is designed by Felipe Flores Comics! #GillyAtWilly

Bonus episode! Chris is alone on the mic today to wrap up Season 1. He talks about what compelled him to do all of this, what he learned, the grim vicissitudes of air travel and why it's a metaphor for the business world, and how to build the future out of the wreckage of the past. Read this stuff:T.H. White's "The Once and Future King"(Why The once and Future King is the Best King Arthur Story Out There: Vox)Richard Thaler's "Misbehaving"Lewis Lapham: "Merlin's Owl"The 1619 Project: The New York TimesLearn more:TWC Group, LLC

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Richard Wolff, a professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder of the organization Democracy at Work. Prof. Wolff’s latest book is Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown. Fears are spreading around the world as a key recession indicator goes off in the United States and evidence of economic slowdown surfaces in other major global economies. The last economic crisis was an unusually long 11 years ago, raising fears that another major downturn is right around the corner. Parts of New York City have changed through the decades of white flight, neglect, and gentrification, but the massively wealthy elites who live in the Manhattan penthouses remain a constant. Award-winning author and commentator Lewis Lapham satirized them in his original 1988 book “Money and Class in America,” newly updated, which we talk about with him today. Brian and John speak with Lewis Lapham, the founding Editor of “Lapham's Quarterly,” a quarterly publication about history and literature, the editor emeritus of “Harper's Magazine,” and an award-winning author of many books, including the newly updated “Money and Class in America.”Friday is Loud & Clear’s weekly hour-long segment The Week in Review, about the week in politics, policy, and international affairs. Today Brian and John start by interviewing Bruce Gagnon about Trump’s bid for Arctic dominance in trying to buy Greenland, then they discuss with producers Walter and Nicole Israel’s bans and reversals on US Congresswomen’s visits, the signs of a coming recession, the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein atrocities, and the Hong Kong protests, and they wrap up the hour with Steve Patt’s headlines of the week. Brian and John are joined by Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Loud & Clear producers Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek, and independent journalist Steve Patt, whose mainstream media critiques have been a feature of his site Left I on the News.

On this episode Debbie talks to Lewis Lapham about his long career in journalism and the media landscape today.

Barbara Ehrenreich thought there was something strange going on with the smart middle-aged people she knew. They seemed to be obsessed with their bodies in a novel and unexpected way, exercising frequently, assessing the value of every bite they considered, and obeying every preventive measure offered by doctors. “I did not share this obsession, I will admit,” she says on this episode of The World in Time. Annual visits to the doctor, constant medical tests—it all felt futile, or at least unnecessary. “It's in my nature to question everything,” she explains, “so in each case…I would do some research, and see if this indeed did any good.” Her new book, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer, is a result of that research, and she discussed her findings, scientific and philosophical and cultural, with Lewis Lapham. And yes, Gwyneth Paltrow does come up. Lewis H. Lapham talks with Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer.

Guests: Lexington Herald-Leader columnist and president of the Bluegrass Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Tom Eblen; former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, now editor of Lapham's Quarterly and a special issue entitled "A History of Fake News"; Kate Howard from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting on her organization's news literacy initiative; Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Alan Miller on his News Literacy Project; and, Rhode Island Library Media Specialist Brien Jennings on his "Media Literacy Series" for children. (L-R) Tom Martin, Tom Eblen 

Guests: Lexington Herald-Leader columnist and president of the Bluegrass Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Tom Eblen; former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, now editor of Lapham's Quarterly and a special issue entitled "A History of Fake News"; Kate Howard from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting on her organization's news literacy initiative; Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Alan Miller on his News Literacy Project; and, Rhode Island Library Media Specialist Brien Jennings on his "Media Literacy Series" for children. (L-R) Tom Martin, Tom Eblen 

“For over two centuries, this topic has been subject to whitewashing and selective remembering and forgetting,” historian Holger Hoock writes. He is referring to the American Revolution, a war sanitized by sentimentality and historical distance but about as bloody as other moments in the past with a “Revolution” appended to its name. The facts Hoock cites are relentless: “More than ten times as many Americans died, per capita, in the Revolutionary War as in World War I, and nearly five times as many as in World War II. The death rate among Revolutionary-era prisoners of war was the highest in American history. In addition, at least 20,000 British and thousands more American Loyalist, Native American, German, and French lives were lost. The Revolution exacted further human sacrifice when at war's end approximately one in forty Americans went into permanent exile, the equivalent of some 7.5 million today.” In May 2017, Hoock spoke with Lewis Lapham about his research on the Revolutionary War at an event at the New York Public Library. Listen to their conversation above. Lewis H. Lapham talks with Holger Hoock, author of Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

This series, from 1983, gave me a chance to ponder issues, concerning the power and responsibility of journalistic media, that had preoccupied me every since I had begun working for CBC Radio twelve years before. Two "hooks" provided the occasion. The first was the calling of a Royal Commission to consider the problem of growing monopoly in the newspaper business. This was the Kent Commission, after commissioner Tom Kent, which reported in 1981. The second was the publication, in 1980, of the book which gave the series its title, Anthony Smith's The Geo-Politics of Information, a book on the clamour in what was then generally called the Third World for a New World Information Order, so-called, one not totally dominated by Western media. Both of these question are addressed - the history (and myth) of the free press in Part One, the New World Information Order debate in Part Two - but the series also allowed me to go further. Part Three looks at foreign news and draws heavily on the work of Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. Chomsky had recently published, with Edward Herman, a two volume work called The Political Economy of Human Rights, which had had a huge influence in shaping my view of media. In these books Chomsky and Herman show how a nominally free press faithfully reproduces what they call "imperial ideology." Said, for his part, had just brought out Covering Islam, a book in which he brought the thesis of his celebrated Orientalism into the present with a consideration of contemporary news coverage of Islamic countries. The final show of the set focused on the news industry's "mode of production" and the ways in which it shapes its finished product. One notable thing about this series was the number of prominent scholars in the field who agreed to take part. I have mentioned Chomsky and Said, but there was also Stuart Hall, James Curran, Gaye Tuchman, Lewis Lapham, Todd Gitlin and many others. Another was the strength of the interviews I recorded for the series, which led me into my first questioning of the documentary format in which I was then working. Documentaries have narrative requirements which tend to dictate how the component interviews will be edited. Mad Magazine used to joke, in a satire on the New York Times famous slogan, "all the news thats fit to print," that it presented "all the news that fits the print"; and documentaries are the same. The "clips" that will be cut out of the interviews will be those that fit the narrative requirements of the documentary. This generally precludes any sustained attention to the individual character or context of the thinkers who are quoted. Reflection on this issue led to the approach that I generally took in my work for Ideas after 1990 in which my subjects, wherever possible, were presented one-at-a-time and in depth.The participants in the series were as follows:Part One: Paul Rutherford, James Curran, Anthony Smith, Stuart Hall, Lewis Lapham, Carman Cumming, Todd GitlinPart Two: Juan Somavia, Rohan Samarajiva, Herbert Schiller, Anthony Smith, Tom McPhail, Bill Harley, Barry ZwickerPart Three: Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Noam Chomsky, James Aronson, Tom KentPart Four: Stuart Hall, Lewis Lapham, Gaye Tuchman, James Curran,Todd Gitlin, Carman Cumming, Paul Rutherford, Jeremy Wilson, Noam ChomskyA transcript of the series is available on the Transcripts page of the site. 

In this historic event, Stephen Fry and other friends of Christopher Hitchens came together to celebrate the life and work of this great writer, iconoclast and debater. Fry was joined on stage at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall by Richard Dawkins and the two discussed Hitch's unflinching commitment to the truth. Hollywood actor Sean Penn was beamed in from LA by Google+ and, between cigarette puffs, read from Hitch's acclaimed work, 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger'. Five friends of Hitch spoke via satellite in New York: satirist Christopher Buckley and editor Lewis Lapham mused on Hitch's prowess as a journalist. 'Like a pot of gold', said Lapham. Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and James Fenton delighted the audience with stories of Hitchens as a young man. Rushdie drew roars of laughter when he recounted a word game invented by Amis and Hitchens where the word 'love' is replaced with 'hysterical sex'. Particular favourites included Hysterical Sex in the Time of Cholera and Hysterical Sex Is All You Need.Watching the event with Hitch at his bedside in Texas, Hitch's wife Carol and novelist Ian McEwan provided an email commentary. 'His Rolls Royce mind is still purring beautifully', typed McEwan.The event was watched live by 2500 at the venue, and by thousands more in UK cinemas and online. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Until the fifteenth century the only sea that mattered (politically, socially, and economically) was the Mediterranean. As sixteenth-century European explorers set sail in search of land and opportunity, it was the Atlantic that carried them from old worlds to new. Since the middle of the twentieth century, argues Simon Winchester, it's been the Pacific Ocean that dominates trade, travel, and scientific research, and it's on, in, and under the Pacific that the future of the world will be forged. Lewis Lapham talks with Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

Why did World War I begin? Why did America enter the conflict? What place does the war hold in American historical memory? These are questions historian Michael Kazin asks his Georgetown University students, and many of them are stumped. When Woodrow Wilson plunged the country headfirst into its first European fight, he was met with resistance from nearly every corner of American society—in New York City, a women's march for peace was organized along Fifth Avenue. Today there is no memorial on the National Mall to the American soldiers who fought in the war, but understanding the complex social, political, and economic forces that birthed the war—and American involvement in it—is more crucial than ever. Lewis Lapham talks to Michael Kazin, author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

Lexicographers write and edit dictionaries, and while they're becoming a rare breed, language—ever evolving—is a growth industry. There are only some fifty full-time lexicographers in the U.S. They spend their time reading, writing, and synthesizing the words we use, eschew, and transform. Lewis Lapham talks with Kory Stamper, lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

Every man is an ecosystem, ejecting some of the 39 trillion microbes each person on earth contains. While microbes are among the oldest living organisms on earth, it wasn't until 1675 that scientists began to understand their existence—or their scope. Lewis Lapham talks with Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, about discovering communities of microbes that exists within us. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

How do you measure change? It is often said that the twentieth century saw more change than any other period. But today's interest in modern technology obscures the massive changes the world has undergone over the past millennium. Lewis Lapham talks with Ian Mortimer, author of Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years, about the history of change and why it matters. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

In the sixteenth century 300,000 people lived in the imperial quarter of Beijing, which housed the bureaucracy of the Chinese state. At the time Europe had only three cities—London, Naples, and Paris—with as many residents. European governments were by contrast small and static. Over the past five hundred years, partly in response to the grand scale of government power in Asia and the Islamic world, Western nations have gone through a series of revolutions in government: from Thomas Hobbes' imagining of the modern nation state to liberal reforms advocated by John Stuart Mill and William Gladstone and the advent of the welfare state. Lewis Lapham talks to John Micklethwait, co-author, with Adrian Wooldridge, of The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, about the history of government in the West and rethinking the machinery of the state in the twenty-first century. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

From the end of World War II to 1980 virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Middle East; since 1990 virtually no American soldiers have been killed anywhere except the Middle East. Lewis Lapham speaks with Andrew J. Bacevich, author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, about America's shift from the Cold War to war in the Middle East. Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

Ralph welcomes America's Number One populist, Jim Hightower, to tell us how grassroots action can resist the Trump agenda and legendary satirist Lewis Lapham to talk about whether Donald Trump can even be satirized.

Episode 164: The Satire Strikes Back with Lewis Lapham Kick off 2016 talking satire past, present & future with the legendary Lewis Lapham… and let us prove him wrong.'

Lewis Lapham, formerly the editor of Harper's, is the founder of Lapham's Quarterly. "The best part of my job was to come across a manuscript. You never knew what would show up. ... I always had the sense of opening a present, hoping to be both delighted and surprised. Often I was disappointed. But when I wasn't, it was a lot of fun. And word got around that I was that kind of an editor, that I was willing to try anything if you could make it interesting." Thanks to TinyLetter and GoDaddy for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: Lapham's Quarterly Lapham on Longform [2:30] With the Beatles (Melville House • Oct 2005) [17:00] "Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?" (The Saturday Evening Post • Sep 1965) [unavailable online] [21:00] "Monk: High Priest of Jazz" (The Saturday Evening Post • Apr 1964) [unavailable online] [29:00] "Alaksa: Politicians and Natives, Money and Oil" (Harper's • May 1970) [paywall] [31:00] "The Coming Wounds of Wall Street" (Harper's • May 1971) [paywall] [43:30] "Harper's Lapham: Good-bye, Long Tale" (Christopher Swan • The Christian Science Monitor • July 1985)

Lewis Lapham, the founder of Lapham's Quarterly, and acclaimed editor emeritus of Harper's Magazine speaks about his days growing up in San Francisco and his time at Yale, as well as shares his reflections on history, journalism, and the state of American society today.

This week Alec talks with Lewis Lapham, who's been refining his prose for over 50 years. Lapham says he still has to write “three or four or five, sometimes eight drafts of something,” but takes pleasure in “getting it right.” Today, he's at the helm of Lapham's Quarterly. He was at Harper's for many years – and he started out at The San Francisco Examiner before stints at The Saturday Evening Post and Life. To talk with Lewis Lapham, you're struck with the sensation that you've stumbled onto the set of a 1940's film noir movie. He wears pressed suits and pocket squares -- and his stories evoke another era. He tells Alec about being a rookie reporter at The Examiner and what it was like to go on a meditation retreat with the Beatles in India. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In New York, Jesse goes thrifting with the guys from Street Etiquette, plus what's inside a suit coat, Rudiments with Dave Hill, Lewis Lapham, Jay Kos and more.

Notes, References, and Links for further study: 1.     Donation link for “The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto” multi-DVD interview project, currently in post-production. With over 5 hours of interview footage, this is a collection of education which is invaluable. a.     If you donate $50 or more towards the completion of this project, you will receive the entire DVD set; as our way of saying Thanks! 2.     Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online critical thinking community 3.     Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2011) 4.     Peace Revolution backup stream (2006-2011, also includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast) 5.     Tragedy and Hope dot com (all of our media productions, free to the public) a.     On the top menu, there is a “Trivium” selection, which includes the Brain model discussed in Peace Revolution episodes. 6.     “A Peaceful Solution” by Willie Nelson w/thanks to the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute 7.     T&H Partner Podcasts: Media Monarchy, Corbett Report, Gnostic Media, & Remedy Radio 8.     www.StartPage.com (It uses Google's search algorithm, but doesn't collect your private info and search history) a.     StartPage search engine Firefox add-on 9.     (Music) Bolero, a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel 10.  David Rothkopf (on Wikipedia) a.     (Book) Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World they are Creating (on Amazon) 11.  (Ref) The American Ruling Class by Lewis Lapham (on Wikipedia) a.     Lewis Lapham (on Wikipedia)                                           i.    Lapham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations b.    (Video) The American Ruling Class by Lewis Lapham (on Netflix) 12.  (Book) With No Apologies: The Personal and Political Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater (on Amazon) a.     Chapter 33: Our Non-Elected Rulers 13.  (Ref) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (in the Brain Model) 14.  (Ref) Ford Foundation (in the Brain Model) 15.  (Ref) Rockefeller Foundation (in the Brain Model) 16.  (Video) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace presents “Rise of the Superclass” by David Rothkopf (on YouTube) 17.  (Video) David Rothkopf at Middlebury College discussing Superclass (on YouTube) 18.  (Video) Empire: Superclass / Al Jazeera (on YouTube) 19.  (Book) The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills 1959 (on Amazon) 20.  (Book) Foundations and their Influence by Rene Wormser (on Amazon) 21.  (Book) The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation by Raymond Fosdick (on Amazon) 22.  (Book) Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths by Dr. Robert Hare (on Amazon) 23.  (Book) Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Dr. Robert Hare (on Amazon) Peace Revolution partner podcasts: Corbett Report dot com Media Monarchy dot com Gnostic Media Podcast School Sucks Project Podcast Remedy Radio Podcast Meria dot net Other productions by members of the T&H network: Navigating Netflix (2011) our new video series wherein we conduct a critical analysis of films you might have missed; Navigating Netflix is available for free on YouTube. "Memories of a Political Prisoner", an interview with Professor Chengiah Ragaven, graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex; AFTER he was a political prisoner, who was exiled from South Africa, during Apartheid. (2011) What You've Been Missing! (2011) is our video series focusing in on the history of corruption in our public education system. Top Documentary Films dot com: Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006) Top Documentary Films dot com: Exposing the Noble Lie (2010) Top Documentary Films dot com: The Pharmacratic Inquisition by Jan Irvin (2007) THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If you would like to donate so that we can continue producing independent media without commercial advertising, simply click the button below for a one-time donation: Alternatively, You can become a Member and Support our ability to create media for the public (while You make new friends and enjoy educating yourself along the way) by subscribing to the Tragedy and Hope Community: Monthly @ $14.95 / month Yearly @ $120.00 / year *Subscription details on Subscribe page in the Top Menu.

Notes, References, and Links for further study:1.   Use the "Donate" buttons at the bottom of these notes, or on the side bar of this site, or the T&H Community, or the T&H dot com site, for “The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto” multi-DVD interview project, currently in post-production. With over 5 hours of interview footage, this is a collection of education which is invaluable.a.     If you donate $50 or more towards the completion of this project, you will receive the entire DVD set; as our way of saying Thanks!2.     Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online critical thinking community3.     Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2011)4.     Peace Revolution backup stream (2006-2011, also includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast)5.     Tragedy and Hope dot com (all of our media productions, free to the public)a.     On the top menu, there is a “Trivium” selection, which includes the Brain model discussed in Peace Revolution episodes.6.     “A Peaceful Solution” by Willie Nelson w/thanks to the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute7.     T&H Partner Podcasts: Media Monarchy, Corbett Report, Gnostic Media, & Remedy Radio8.     www.StartPage.com (It uses Google's search algorithm, but doesn't collect your private info and search history)a.     StartPage search engine Firefox add-on9.     (Music) Bolero, a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel10.  David Rothkopf (on Wikipedia)a.     (Book) Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World they are Creating (on Amazon)11.  (Ref) The American Ruling Class by Lewis Lapham (on Wikipedia)a.     Lewis Lapham (on Wikipedia)                                          i.    Lapham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relationsb.    (Video) The American Ruling Class by Lewis Lapham (on Netflix)12.  (Book) With No Apologies: The Personal and Political Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater (on Amazon)a.     Chapter 33: Our Non-Elected Rulers13.  (Ref) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (in the Brain Model)14.  (Ref) Ford Foundation (in the Brain Model)15.  (Ref) Rockefeller Foundation (in the Brain Model)16.  (Video) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace presents “Rise of the Superclass” by David Rothkopf (on YouTube)17.  (Video) David Rothkopf at Middlebury College discussing Superclass (on YouTube)18.  (Video) Empire: Superclass / Al Jazeera (on YouTube)19.  (Book) The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills 1959 (on Amazon)20.  (Book) Foundations and their Influence by Rene Wormser (on Amazon)21.  (Book) The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation by Raymond Fosdick (on Amazon)22.  (Book) Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths by Dr. Robert Hare (on Amazon)23.  (Book) Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Dr. Robert Hare (on Amazon)Peace Revolution partner podcasts:Corbett Report dot comMedia Monarchy dot comGnostic Media PodcastSchool Sucks Project PodcastRemedy Radio PodcastMeria dot netOther productions by members of the T&H network:Navigating Netflix (2011) our new video series wherein we conduct a critical analysis of films you might have missed; Navigating Netflix is available for free on YouTube."Memories of a Political Prisoner", an interview with Professor Chengiah Ragaven, graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex; AFTER he was a political prisoner, who was exiled from South Africa, during Apartheid. (2011)What You've Been Missing! (2011) is our video series focusing in on the history of corruption in our public education system.Top Documentary Films dot com: Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006)Top Documentary Films dot com: Exposing the Noble Lie (2010)Top Documentary Films dot com: The Pharmacratic Inquisition by Jan Irvin (2007)THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If you would like to donate so that we can continue producing independent media without commercial advertising, simply click the button below for a one-time donation: Alternatively, You can become a Member and Support our ability to create media for the public (while You make new friends and enjoy educating yourself along the way) by subscribing to the Tragedy and Hope Community: Monthly @ $14.95 / month Yearly @ $120.00 / year *Subscription details on Subscribe page in the Top Menu.

This week: Documentary auteur Errol Morris reluctantly joins the party… A half-ton cheese rolls up to the White House… and we dig into millenia’s worth of food with culture critic Lewis Lapham. Plus, a joke from author Ransom Riggs, and a new tune from The War on Drugs.

In this episode, writer and social activist Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her life and career on the February 16, 2011 edition of KNPR's "State of Nevada." Ehrenreich appeared, along with Lewis Lapham and Curtis White, at BMI's "Future of American Liberalism" event on Feburary 24th. This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of KNPR's "State of Nevada" which podcasts many segments of its programs. See knpr.org/son/feeds for more information.

In this episode, Barbara Ehrenreich, Lewis Lapham, and Curtis White discuss "The Future of American Liberalism." Jon Ralston, of the _Las Vegas Sun_ and KSNV, moderates. The event was held February 24, 2011 in the Beam Music Center's Doc Rando Hall at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV.

 *This is the version without background music throughout; if you would like to listen to this episode with background music, use the mirror feed found at http://renaissance.libsyn.com/ or http://renaissance.libsyn.com/peacerevolution104 Statements which reveal the New World Order: The Intellectual Elite vs. You / The Resurrection of Critical ThinkingRaw Footage audio / Interview Clips from the film Believers Beware: Contrary Conditioning by Paul Verge----------------Richard Grove, filmed 12.10.20091) The idea of a NEW WORLD ORDER. Plato's Republic. The suppression of consciousness. A comprehensive endeavor. Seeking to subjugate the masses thru a watered down education. HG Wells, "NWO", subliminals2) Agatha Christie's novel/movie "Murder on the Orient Express" too much evidence. cant be just one culprit. creating plausible deniability. each party plays 2 parts. an actual part, and the plausible denial. Interchangeable parts.3) Ego worshippers, using the hidden knowledge to help perpetuate this "new world order". Intellectual elite dumbing down the masses. More on Plato's Republic.4) Plato's allegory of the cave. Good description. How the illusion works. Same as now as it was 2500 years ago. Pullout of Afghanistan by sending in more people. Doublethink and Schizophrenia.5) Reading books vs. internet only research Eustace Mullins - "Secrets of the Federal Reserve." His other book "The World Order"6) "Superclass" using Rhetoric, Fallacy arguments, and dumbing us down.7) News agencies lying to help protect their advertisers. How the NWO is fed by  that relationship.8) "With No Apologies" by Senator Barry M. Goldwater Chapter 33 - The Non ElectedRulers, Col. Edward Mandell House CFR, House, JP Morgan. Trilateral Commission.Council on Foreign Relations. Surrendering Sovereignty, Merger and Consolidation.9) More from "With No Apologies" from Barry M. Goldwater10) Right Leg and Left Leg stepping towards goal. Part of same torso (CFR, TC, Bilderberg.) More on Trilaterals Subverted groups, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Controlling groups invisibly thru Bait & Switch.  Goldwater on the Trilateral Commission. Global Warming, etc.11) "Superclass", David Rothkopf CFR Member - Cover says, We've got the world on ourkey chain, ready to take it for a ride. - Fareed Zacharia, CFR "The Post-American World" 12) The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes. forming Working Groups from his fortune left behind to those who undermine state sovereignty. Plan laid out. Why are we not taught this in schools?13) Lewis Lapham's film, "The American Ruling Class" CFR members, all sorts of people exposed in the film. Read books, learn things, they rule because we are willfully ignorant. "The American Public just doesn't read." (Allen Dulles) Buy old good books instead of self help mumbo jumbo & LEARN.14) Lisa on Albert Einstein Learning our way out of  the insanity by evolving our consciousness.15) Lisa on John Taylor Gatto, and "Dumbing Us Down" ie: ridding us of effective Critical Thinking skills.16) John Taylor Gatto's 7 things he really Teaches1) CONFUSION2) CLASS POSITION3) INDIFFERENCE4) EMOTIONAL DEPENDANCY5) INTELLECTUAL DEPENDANCY6) PROVISIONAL (OR CONDITIONAL) SELF ESTEEM7) ONE CANNOT HIDE (SURVEILLANCE)17) Other selected passages from "Dumbing Us Down"18) John Taylor Gatto's 7 things he really Teaches (RE-CAP)19) Gene Odening's concern. The harm being brought to the current generation of students.20) Gene Odening on the Trivium21) Dan Brown's Lost SymbolOUTTAKES22) Cecil John Rhodes23) William T. Stead, The Interview, Titanic, Last Will and Testament of  Cecil John Rhodes.24) ALTERNATE ON William T. Stead, The Interview, Titanic, Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes.25) Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes. How to find books... "The Review of Reviews"26) William T. Stead, Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes. ACTUAL BOOK UNVEILING27) Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes.  Quotes from the Book. plus Rich's elucidations28) Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes. Quotes from p. 73 of book plus Rich's elucidations29) Removing doubts that the NWO exists..  About Carroll Quigley30) Quote from Quigley31) Quote from Quigley on Internalization of Controls32) Hemp, Oil, Carbon emissions 500 largest ships put out more crap than all vehicles' Global warming Realities. Pollution done by corporations, not the people. not by accident33) Quote from Quigley's Evolution of Civilizations Old way of war, vs. New form of war - subversion thru commerce.34) Good analogy of the monetary system as an invisible control system you can't see until you are out of it.35) On Quigley's "The Anglo- American Establishment", and "Tragedy and Hope", and Quigley's credibility.36) On John Taylor Gatto's book Dumbing Us Down, real society vs. what we are taught.Suppression of education. Tax-Exempt Foundations, Norman Dodd, Reece Committee, Rick Malchow & Mrs. Tichy37) Norman Dodd, Reece Committee, Robert Hutchens, Rene Wormser, Assembling evidence that the Foundations were up to no good. Kathryn Casey reads the Carnegie Endowment which are shocking.. Who to bring the US into war.38) Tax Exempt Foundation book The point - Dumbing Us Down so that we perpetuate a loss of critical thinking and become non-thinking followers. Frank Kapra's WHY WE FIGHT39) Why War is waged, and how to continue the consume- produce cycle by removing critical thinking to make the propaganda more effective. Why loss of critical thinking is a bad thing. Easily groomed to be servants. Empty minded consumers who take instructions without question.40) The Great Conversation - Robert Maynard Hutchins - The 500 families who own the copies of these books.41) The importance of these books and the Liberal Education..  In 1952 Hutchins was saying42) Liberal Education had been gone for 90 years!43) What would America look like after 150 years of watered down critical thinking ability? Anything like today? Understanding the NWO education.44) What exactly is the Liberal Education? The Great Conversation? Plato's Allegory of the Cave45) Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophicles, Plutarch, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance. History Repeating itself.. Recognize patterns, and  change it up! Breaking the Status Quo/Honoring Tradition46) Civic Responsibility to Learn and understand things. Consent, Government, DeceptionRights, Privileges, Responsibility    47) NWO Ideology Political -Fabian Socialism, getting paid to argue persuasively. Religious -Theosophy William T. Stead, HG Wells, Cecil Rhodes, Rudyard Kipling, Mason, Swastika, Round Table Workgroups RIIA, CFR, Tavistock, Versailles Treaty48) Fabian Socialists, Fabius the Roman Dictator, Wolf in Sheep's clothing, Hammering the World into their image.49) Propaganda, Propagating ideas. Media is Propaganda. Is it helping to expand or suppress your consciousness. GREAT QUOTE50) Trivium and Quadrivium Thinking Critically and Creatively, Dorothy Sayers, Lost Tools of Learning, Autodidactic Learning51) Quote from Dorothy Sayers, "The Lost Tools of Learning"52) Trivium and the 3,4,5 Triangle. 3 Trivium 4 Quadrivium 5 Senses53) Trivium - Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric.. How and Why the Trivium works.. The effect of  taking them out.54) Why learn the Trivium- Seeing thru the fallacies, figuring out hard facts, and transferring that understanding. Having a Virus Scanner for your mind. Follow money exposing the Fallacy Rhetoric 1886 - Supreme Court Justice Morrison R. Waite Gives CORPORATIONS the rights of Humans. Socio-Psychopath Corporations Charters, Profit Monsters55) Externalization of Costs, Why things aren't as cheap as you think. Passing the cost on to other poor folk. Connecting Emotions to Advertising. Taking News & Ads as truth. Mass Media Public Relations (pre TV)56) War is a Racket, Smedley Butler , the 1934-1935  Business Plot - Gerald MacGuire57) Quotes from War is a Racket,  Smedley Butler ,   58) Who was Smedley Butler?59) Propaganda, 1928 Edward Bernays, (Sigmund Freud's nephew).  Chapter 1 - Organizing Chaos (quote from HH)60) More quote from Propaganda by Edward Bernays61) The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Bringing America into war against Germany by using Propaganda and Demonization62) After Treaty of Versailles 1919 Invention fo Credit leads to the Roaring 20's.  Bernays & Lippmann  start sexing up ads. Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann, Plato's Allegory of the Cave63) Bernays' 1928 Propaganda, builds on Lippmann's P.O., Tavistock, using mass media to fool the public en masse. Tying it all together... Bankers funding these Ideologies as a Hegelian Dialectic.64) The END result? The Planned Obsolescence of America65) Lawyer from Skadden Arps, adding 26 words to Corporations Act   66) Earning profit responsibly, Cartel Capitalism VS. Compassionate Capitalism, Pollution, Corps Externalizing Costs67) Using the Hegelian Dialectic to fool us into fixing their dirty work. Where the hole in the system is. Environmentalism Agenda 21 and Depopulation Coralling us into a False dilemma68) The Club of Rome, "The First Global Revolution" how to make Humanity the enemy of Humanity by Blaming us for pollution, global warming, and over popluation. Planned Obsolesence69) When the working groups and think tanks and societies all got together to make US pay for their crap, and to control us. The Carbon Tax Scam Blood and Gore Trading Firm Taxing the Problem instead of Solving. Avoiding REAL solutions like Hemp.70) Similar scam to US economy. Robert Rubin removing Glass/Steagall laws of regulation. Tyco, Enron, Worldcom result. Sarbanes-Oxley supposed to tighten it up, but doesn't really. SEC bad, ref. 20-20 Hindsight. Goldman Sachs COO 29 year old  71) Whistleblowing, and Rich's experiences. If the public knew what Rich knew, all thesefinancial scams could have been avoided.  The irony of paying institutions and magazinesto lie to you. Conceal and Reveal72) Education and Religion do 2 things with information- They provide it and conceal it.Which information is more valuable?73) Prisoner VS Slave mentality - Hoping for a better master, a better system of obeying.Prisoners want to break out and think for themselves. Offering info to the slaves can upset them into trying to stop the prisoners from leaving74) The Root of the Problem. The Suppression of Consciousness. Artificial boundaries.Einstein - You cant solve a problem from the same mindset that created it. Question everything.75) Freedom, Being a Slave vs. Prisoner76) Explaining the Game to children and empowering them.77) The Reality of the True Problem. Rejecting the Status Quo78) What corporations want you to do VS what you should be doing.. How they profit from our ignorance.  Reading VS Violence79) Learning our way out of the Problem. Sharing the wisdom.  Popping the illusion bubble.80) Treating Root causes instead of Symptoms in society, our lives, and our health. Avoiding the cycle.81) Actually listening and realizing REAL solutions vs. looking to Corporate Authorities for solutions (they can't profit from)82) Learning, Understanding, disarming the fear with Knowledge. Not showing you what to think, but teaching you How to think.83) All the little chains attached to us to prevent our full self-expression. Disinfo agents  drawing peoples energy and attention.84) Purposeful complication 85) Words, Propaganda, making choices to react Emotionally instead of Critically.86) High Vs. Low Vibrations, Tone, From SD to HD87) Synchronicity, Carl Jung, Legitimate Suffering,88) Fear, Manifestation, Religion, the Middle man, Suppressing Consciousness and Hell89) Believing VS. Really Knowing.  Some GREAT easy solutions.90) Running it Their Way: Corporate Pollution and externalizing Blame with their Scams (Global Warming, War on Terror)91) Not knowing Frees you to actually Learn, Fear Free, when you let go of the pre-conditioning. Why churches hide things occultism (hidden). Vaccination of Info92) The common Realization - Finding Solutions through changing our habits first. then collaborating resisting advertising taking back our time93) Solving Problems with Words and Understanding and Cooperation. Logic and Reason94) Spending our time like we spend our money. Get to know your REAL self. Noticing the Corporate Conditioning, and being constructive against it. Taking Steps to Action.95) Acting Vs. Reacting and Asking the Right Questions about our habits96) Who are you? What is important? Do you like what your doing? What are you doing to change it?97) The multi-pronged onslaught against us. Connecting the dots and bringing things back to something good. Corporate Media Bad.98) Neil Postman "Amusing our Selves to Death" Suppression of Consciousness. Learning our way out of the game with good decisions.99) Consumerism/Slavery, Understanding motives and intentions. Threat and Fear Culture. Love. The Frequency opposed to Fear.100) Our adversaries are our greatest teachers.101) Learn the lessons! They fear the awakening102) Selective Genocide, Homosexuality as a control mechanism. Setting the boundaries.103) Overcome Fear, Learn our way Free, Achieve Happiness, don't avoid fear and pain. Confront and defeat it! Take your Life Back!104) Rich's final message. Does our Propaganda help or suppress your consciousness?THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 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The version on this feed has background music... if you prefer to listen without the music, the Peace Revolution dot org site has the version without background music. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Right click on "pod" (above) to download / alternative download site: www.PeaceRevolution.org Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes (click here)   List of Interview Clip Titles / Believers Beware: Contrary Conditioning by Paul Verge   104 Statements which reaveal the New World Order: The Intellectual Elite vs. You / The Resurrection of Critical Thinking ---------------- Richard Grove, filmed 12.10.2009 1) The idea of a NEW WORLD ORDER. Plato's Republic. The suppression of consciousness. A comprehensive endeavour. Seeking to subjugate the masses thru a watered down education. HG Wells, "NWO", subliminals 2) Agatha Christie's novel/movie "Murder on the Orient Express" too much evidence. cant be just one culprit. creating plausible deniability. each party plays 2 parts. an actual part, and the plausible denial. Interchangeable parts. 3) Ego worshippers, using the hidden knowledge to help perpetuate this "new world order". Intellectual elite dumbing down the masses. More on Plato's Republic. 4) Plato's allegory of the cave. Good description. How the illusion works. Same as now as it was 2500 years ago. Pullout of Afghanistan by sending in more people. Doublethink and Schizophrenia. 5) Reading books vs. internet only research Eustace Mullins - "Secrets of the Federal Reserve." His other book "The World Order" 6) "Superclass" using Rhetoric, Fallacy arguments, and dumbing us down. 7) News agencies lying to help protect their advertisers. How the NWO is fed by  that relationship. 8) "With No Apologies" by Senator Barry M. Goldwater Chapter 33 - The Non Elected Rulers, Col. Edward Mandell House CFR, House, JP Morgan. Trilateral Commission. Coucil on Foreign Relations. Surrendering Sovereignty, Merger and Consolidation. 9) More from "With No Apologies" from Barry M. Goldwater 10) Right Leg and Left Leg stepping towards goal. Part of same torso (CFR, TC, Bilderberg.) More on Trilaterals Subverted groups, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Controlling groups invisibly thru Bait & Switch.  Goldwater on the Trilateral Commission. Global Warming, etc. 11) "Superclass", David Rothkopf CFR Member - Cover says, We've got the world on our key chain, ready to take it for a ride. - Fareed Zacharia, CFR "The Post-American World"  12) The Last Will and Testement of Cecil John Rhodes. forming Working Groups from his fortune left behind to those who undermine state sovereignty. Plan laid out. Why are we not taught this in schools? 13) Lewis Lapham's film, "The American Ruling Class" CFR members, all sorts of people exposed in the film. Read books, learn things, they rule because we are willfully ignorant. "The American Public just doesn't read." (Allen Dulles) Buy old good books instead of self help mumbo jumbo & LEARN. 14) Lisa on Albert Einstein Learning our way out of  the insanity by evolving our consciousness. 15) Lisa on John Taylor Gatto, and "Dumbing Us Down" ie: ridding us of effective Critical Thinking skills. 16) John Taylor Gatto's 7 things he really Teaches 1) CONFUSION 2) CLASS POSITION 3) INDIFFERENCE 4) EMOTIONAL DEPENDANCY 5) INTELLECTUAL DEPENDANCY 6) PROVISIONAL (OR CONDITIONAL) SELF ESTEEM 7) ONE CANNOT HIDE (SURVEILLANCE) 17) Other selected passages from "Dumbing Us Down" 18) John Taylor Gatto's 7 things he really Teaches (RE-CAP) 19) Gene Odening's concern. The harm being brought to the current generation of students. 20) Gene Odening on the Trivium 21) Dan Brown's Lost Symbol OUTTAKES 22) Cecil John Rhodes 23) William T. Stead, The Interview, Titanic, Last Will and Testement of  Cecil John Rhodes. 24) ALTERNATE ON William T. Stead, The Interview, Titanic, Last Will and Testement of Cecil John Rhodes. 25) Last Will and Testement of Cecil John Rhodes. How to find books... "The Review of Reviews" 26) William T. Stead, Last Will and Testement of Cecil John Rhodes. ACTUAL BOOK UNVEILING 27) Last Will and Testement of Cecil John Rhodes.  Quotes from the Book. plus Rich's elucidations 28) Last Will and Testement of Cecil John Rhodes. Quotes from p. 73 of book plus Rich's elucidations 29) Removing doubts that the NWO exists..  About Caroll Quigley 30) Quote from Quigley 31) Quote from Quigley on Internalization of Controls 32) Hemp, Oil, Carbon emissions 500 largest ships put out more crap than all vehicles' Global warming Realities. Pollution done by corporations, not the people. not by accident 33) Quote from Quigley's Evolution of Civilizations Old way of war, vs. New form of war - subversion thru commerce. 34) Good analogy of the monetary system as an invisible control system you can't see until you are out of it. 35) On Quigley's "The Anglo- American Establishment", and "Tragedy and Hope", and Quigley's credibility. 36) On John Taylor Gatto's book Dumbing Us Down, real society vs. what we are taught. Supression of education. Tax-Exempt Foundations, Norman Dodd, Reece Commitee, Rick Malchow & Mrs. Tichy 37) Norman Dodd, Reece Committee, Robert Hutchens, Rene Wormser, Assembling evidence that the Foundations were up to no good. Kathryn Casey reads the Carnegie Endowment which are shocking.. Who to bring the US into war. 38) Tax Exempt Foundation book The point - Dumbing Us Down so that we perpetuate a loss of critical thinking and become non-thinking followers. Frank Kapra's WHY WE FIGHT 39) Why War is waged, and how to continue the consume- produce cycle by removing critical thinking to make the propaganda more effective. Why loss of critical thinking is a bad thing. Easily groomed to be servants. Empty minded consumers who take instructions without question. 40) The Great Conversation - Robert Maynard Hutchins - The 500 families who own the copies of these books. 41) The importance of these books and the Liberal Education..  In 1952 Hutchins was saying 42) Liberal Education had been gone for 90 years! 43) What would America look like after 150 years of watered down critical thinking ability? Anything like today? Understanding the NWO education. 44) What exactly is the Liberal Education? The Great Conversation? Plato's Allegory of the Cave 45) Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophicles, Plutarch, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance. History Repeating itself.. Recognize patterns, and  change it up! Breaking the Status Quo/Honoring Tradition 46) Civic Responsibilty to Learn and understand things. Consent, Government, Deception Rights, Priviledges, Responsibility     47) NWO Ideology Political -Fabian Socialism, getting paid to argue persuasively. Religious -Theosophy William T. Stead, HG Wells, Cecil Rhodes, Rudyard Kipling, Mason, Swastika, Round Table Workgroups RIIA, CFR, Tavistock, Versailles Treaty 48) Fabian Socialists, Fabius the Roman Dictator, Wolf in Sheeps clothing, Hammering the World into their image. 49) Propaganda, Propagating ideas. Media is Propaganda. Is it helping to expand or suppress your consciousness. GREAT QUOTE 50) Trivium and Quadrivium Thinking Critically and Creatively, Dorothy Sayers, Lost Tools of Learning, Autodidactic Learning 51) Quote from Dorothy Sayers, "The Lost Tools of Learning" 52) Trivium and the 3,4,5 Triangle. 3 Trivium 4 Quadrivium 5 Senses 53) Trivium - Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric.. How and Why the Trivium works.. The effect of  taking them out. 54) Why learn the Trivium- Seeing thru the fallacies, figuring out hard facts, and transferring that understanding. Having a Virus Scanner for your mind. Follow money exposing the Fallacy Rhetoric 1886 - Supreme Court Justice Morrison R. Waite Gives CORPORATIONS the rights of Humans. Socio-Psychopath Corporations Charters, Profit Monsters 55) Externalization of Costs, Why things aren't as cheap as you think. Passing the cost on to other poor folk. Connecting Emotions to Advertising. Taking News & Ads as truth. Mass Media Public Relations (pre TV) 56) War is a Racket, Smedley Butler , the 1934-1935  Business Plot - Gerald MacGuire 57) Quotes from War is a Racket,  Smedley Butler ,    58) Who was Smedley Butler? 59) Propaganda, 1928 Edward Bernays, (Sigmund Freud's nephew).  Chapter 1 - Organizing Chaos (quote from HH) 60) More quote from Propaganda by Edward Bernays 61) The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Bringing America into war against Germany by using Propaganda and Demonization 62) After Treaty of Versailles 1919 Invention fo Credit leads to the Roaring 20's.  Bernays & Lippmann  start sexing up ads. Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann, Plato's Allegory of the Cave 63) Bernay's 1928 Propaganda, builds on Lippmann's P.O., Tavistock, using mass media to fool the public en masse. Tying it all together... Bankers funding these Ideologies as a Hegelian Dialectic. 64) The END result? The Planned Obsolesence of America 65) Lawyer from Skadden Arps, adding 26 words to Corporations Act    66) Earning profit responsibly, Cartel Capitalism VS. Compassionate Capitalism, Pollution, Corps Externalizing Costs 67) Using the Hegelian Dialectic to fool us into fixing their dirty work. Where the hole in the system is. Environmentalism Agenda 21 and Depopulation Coralling us into a False dilemma 68) The Club of Rome, "The First Global Revolution" how to make Humanity the enemy of Humanity by Blaming us for pollution, global warming, and over popluation. Planned Obsolesence 69) When the working groups and think tanks and societies all got together to make US pay for their crap, and to control us. The Carbon Tax Scam Blood and Gore Trading Firm Taxing the Problem instead of Solving. Avoiding REAL solutions like Hemp. 70) Similar scam to US economy. Robert Rubin removing Glass/Steagel laws of regulation. Tyco, Enron, Worldcom result. Sarbanes-Oxley supposed to tighten it up, but doesn't really. SEC bad, ref. 20-20 Hindsight. Goldman Sachs COO 29 year old   71) Whistleblowing, and Rich's experiences. If the public knew what Rich knew, all these financial scams could have been avoided.  The irony of paying institutions and magazines to lie to you. Conceal and Reveal 72) Education and Religion do 2 things with information- They provide it and conceal it. Which information is more valuable? 73) Prisoner VS Slave mentality - Hoping for a better master, a better system of obeying. Prisoners want to break out and think for themselves. Offering info to the slaves can upset them into trying to stop the prisoners from leaving 74) The Root of the Problem. The Suppression of Consciousness. Artificial boundaries. Einstein - You cant solve a problem from the same mindset that created it. Question everything. 75) Freedom, Being a Slave vs. Prisoner 76) Explaining the Game to children and empowering them. 77) The Reality of the True Problem. Rejecting the Status Quo 78) What corporations want you to do VS what you should be doing.. How they profit from our ignorance.  Reading VS Violence 79) Learning our way out of the Problem. Sharing the wisdom.  Popping the illusion bubble. 80) Treating Root causes instead of Symptoms in society, our lives, and our health. Avoiding the cycle. 81) Actually listening and realizing REAL solutions vs. looking to Corporate Authorities for solutions (they can't profit from) 82) Learning, Understanding, disarming the fear with Knowledge. Not showing you what to think, but teaching you How to think. 83) All the little chains attached to us to prevent our full self-expression. Disinfo agents  drawing peoples energy and attention. 84) Purposeful complication  85) Words, Propaganda, making choices to react Emotionally instead of Critically. 86) High Vs. Low Vibrations, Tone, From SD to HD 87) Synchronicity, Carl Jung, Legitimate Suffering, 88) Fear, Manifestation, Religion, the Middle man, Supressing Consciousness and Hell 89) Believing VS. Really Knowing.  Some GREAT easy solutions. 90) Running it Their Way: Corporate Pollution and externalizing Blame with their Scams (Global Warming, War on Terror) 91) Not knowing Frees you to actually Learn, Fear Free, when you let go of the pre-conditioning. Why churches hide things occultism (hidden). Vaccination of Info 92) The common Realization - Finding Solutions through changing our habits first. then collaborating resisting advertising taking back our time 93) Solving Problems with Words and Understanding and Cooperation. Logic and Reason 94) Spending our time like we spend our money. Get to know your REAL self. Noticing the Corporate Conditioning, and being constructive against it. Taking Steps to Action. 95) Acting Vs. Reacting and Asking the Right Questions about our habits 96) Who are you? What is important? Do you like what your doing? What are you doing to change it? 97) The multi-pronged onslaught against us. Connecting the dots and bringing things back to something good. Corporate Media Bad. 98) Neil Postman "Amusing our Selves to Death" Suppression of Consciousness. Learning our way out of the game with good decisions. 99) Consumerism/Slavery, Understanding motives and intentions. Threat and Fear Culture. Love. The Frequency opposed to Fear. 100) Our adversaries are our greatest teachers. 101) Learn the lessons! They fear the awakening 102) Selective Genocide, Homosexuality as a control mechanism. Setting the boundaries. 103) Overcome Fear, Learn our way Free, Acheive Happiness, don't avoid fear and pain. Confront and defeat it! Take your Life Back! 104) Rich's final message. 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Scandal, vice and magnificent hypocrisy: the truth about the press in 1950s America, as seen by a wide-eyed cub reporter. Lewis Lapham is the editor of Lapham's Quarterly a new journal of history and ideas which can be found at www.laphamsquarterly.org. He is a National Correspondent for Harper's Magazine and the author of thirteen books. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lewis Lapham laments the state of the American education system.

Lewis Lapham laments the state of the American education system.

Lewis Lapham, till 2006 editor of Harper's Magazine. Author and Journalist. A lecture.

Lewis Lapham, till 2006 editor of Harper's Magazine. Author and Journalist. A lecture.