Lapham's Quarterly: About Money
The second issue of Lapham's Quarterly has been available for a few weeks, and--as with the first issue--it's taken me a while to carve the necessary time out of my reading schedule. I'm a junkie for substantive squarebound magazines: American Interest, American Scholar, The Baffler, Common Review, Democracy, Dissent, Foreign Policy, and Wilson Quarterly are my socio-political favorites, with BBC Music and Gramophone to keep me informed about classical music; LQ is the only one (so far) of a historical bent.
I very much enjoy LQ's breadth of source material, and (from Hammurabi through the home mortgage crisis) the obvious choices are included in this finance-oriented issue--Matthew 19:24, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, Ayn Rand--although the selections are somewhat idiosyncratic. For example, Rand is represented by the Danneskjold/Rearden "Robin Hood" encounter from Atlas Shrugged rather than the renowned earlier speech from that same book in which the copper-baron character Francisco d'Anconia declares that money is "the root of all good."
On the LQ website, the previous issue has been displaced by the current one rather than being archived. Does this strike anyone else as an inappropriate decision for a history magazine? (Also, the LQ blog still has no feed...)