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On Celebrity
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Of a Dreamy Sabbath Afternoon
Woolf: "How then are we also on a balcony, wearing pearls in June?”; Common Objects of the Sea-Shore; brief and bloody histories of "stasis" and…
Feb 8
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January 2026
Episode 22: James Romm on Plato and Tyranny
“Plato is watching all this from Athens in what must have been a state of horror.”
Jan 31
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On Luck
Jan 27
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Christo Hays
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Editorial Desk: The devotions of entomologists and poets; D. Graham Burnett on cybernetic attention; Elizabeth Tova Bailey on the lives of snails…
Jan 25
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Episode 21: The Friends of Attention
Listen now | "The Cold War laboratory research identified something real about humans: that we can focus on a stimulus on a screen. But it is hardly an…
Jan 16
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On the Rule of Law
Jan 13
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Christo Hays
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LQ in 2025: The Life and Work, Part 2
The history of attention, tyranny, and fear; Teju Cole and Italo Calvino on Medusa and the literary value of lightness; a portrait gallery of readings…
Jan 11
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LQ in 2025: The Life and Work, Part 1
A portrait gallery of readings: Lapham, Twain, Arendt, Emerson, Baldwin, Guggenheim.
Jan 4
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Encore Episode: Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams
Listen now | “He teaches you that one person can actually make a difference and that ideas actually matter.”
Jan 2
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December 2025
LQ in 2025: “Moby Dick” & The Sea
Our intermittent and ongoing series, collected.
Dec 31, 2025
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Editorial Desk: "You offspring of a dunghill"; already in 1710, information "seemed new, fast, and out of control"; Socrates on old age; selections from…
Dec 28, 2025
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