NP- Lapham "Feast of Fools"

[Allan Balliett]

It is an incredible publication. A gift for anyone interested in what it
has meant to be human, regardless of the year you were born. -Allan in WV

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Kris Williams <spaceace462 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been diggin on Lapham's Quarterly since he went part time at
> Harper's.  I haven't had time to get into the new issue, but Magic Show was
> brilliant.
> On Sep 25, 2012 9:51 PM, "Joseph Tracy" <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> Excellent, witty and acerbic article.
>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Alex Colter wrote:
>>
>> > http://www.tomdispatch.com/dialogs/print/?id=175595
>> >
>> > "The campaigns don’t favor the voters with the gratitude and respect
>> owed to their standing as valuable citizens participant in the making of
>> such a thing as a common good. They stay on message with their parsing of
>> democracy as the ancient Greek name for the American Express card,
>> picturing the great, good American place as a Florida resort hotel wherein
>> all present receive the privileges and comforts owed to their status as
>> valued customers, invited to convert the practice of citizenship into the
>> art of shopping, to select wisely from the campaign advertisements, texting
>> A for Yes, B for No."
>>
>>
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