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Peter Tonguette

Peter Tonguette writes for the American Conservative, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, and many other publications.

When Does an Empire Die?

On the failure of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.


On landlines.


On a life through film.


Gather the Fragments

On Little Women and Christmas.


Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe

Edward Jay Epstein 

Encounter Books, pp. 392, $36.99


This issue's letters and comments.


On the director.

Jean-Luc Godard, R.I.P.

On the late filmmaker.

The Lamp is published by the Three Societies Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Three Rivers, Michigan, in partnership with The Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America. Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Institute for Human Ecology or The Catholic University of America or of its officers, directors, editors, members, or staff.

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