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The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

[BONUS] The Making of a Movie and an Archive (with John Kirby, Libby Handros, and Paul Ford)

Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 30m

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About this episode

This bonus episode of The World in Time brings together a pair of conversations, one about the making of a movie, another about the making of an archive. Director John Kirby and producer Libby Handros talk to acting editor Donovan Hohn about their collaboration with Lewis Lapham on his 2005 "dramatic documentary musical," The American Ruling Class, now streaming on the Criterion Channel. Then writer and technologist Paul Ford, architect of the Harper's Magazine digital archive and co-founder of Aboard, a software consultancy, joins Hohn for a conversation about the new Lapham's Quarterly digital archive, whether technologists can move fast without breaking things, the gold rush origins of…