Lewis Lapham has compiled an Occupy Wall Street reading list that lends  some historical perspective to the #OWS movement. As Lapham has reminded us in the past, via Goethe, “He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth.” Here’s his list:

American Colossus—H. W. Brands
The Barbaric Heart—Curtis White
The Relentless Revolution—Joyce Appleby
Theory of the Leisure Class—Thorstein Veblen
Folklore of Capitalism—Thurman Arnold
The Big Short—Michael Lewis
Merchant of Venice—William Shakespeare
Rameau’s Nephew—Denis Diderot
Age of Greed—Jeff Maddrick
The Politicos—Matthew Joseph
Are We Rome?—Cullen Murphy
Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt, Letter to the Children Who Sit in Darkness—Mark Twain
Money and Class in America—Lewis H. Lapham

Consumer Republic author Bruce Philp on what he sees as the failures of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

David Suzuki was at Occupy Montreal, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement:

“Do we want justice? Do we want greater equity? Do we want environmental protection? Those are the kinds of things that I’m interested in. And if that’s part of what this movement is, then it’s a very exciting moment…This is about the future for these young people, [which] is being sacrificed for the sake of the corporate agenda right now. And I’m delighted to see people saying, We’re going to take that back—take this country back!”

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi in his blog post, “Why Rush Limbaugh Is Freaking Out About Occupy Wall Street.”

Text from occupywriters.com. Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Rachel Rosenfelt (editor of The New Inquiry and one of Lavin’s college speaking agents) are among the literary figures who have signed.

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on the Occupy Wall Street protest: “There is enough real distress and desperation out there—this could transform into a real movement.”