= Subscribers only. Sign in here. Subscribe here.

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

1989 / December | View All Issues |
Table of Contents
MicroFiche

December 1989

illustration

Front cover PDF

Untitled

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By (Artist/illustrator)

Letters

4-9 PDF

Letters

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Harper's index

11 PDF

Harper’s index

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Readings

13-38 PDF

[Article]

Mr. Wujec goes to Warsaw

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By , (Translator)

[Cartoon]

Readings

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By (Cartoonist)

[Poetry]

Ceausescu

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

No little prince

By

[Article]

G-men with attitude

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

[Article]

Rushdie’s words, under guard

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Photography]

The general’s wife

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By (Photographer)

[Article]

When is a flag desecrated?

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By ,

[Article]

This is your life

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Unemployment strategies

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Working-class heroes no more

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

[Cartoon]

Why there are financial planners

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By (Cartoonist)

[Article]

Coming into clearcut

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

[Photography]

Readings

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By (Photographer)

[Article]

Diary of an Ex

By

[Article]

The good parts

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

[Article]

Try a little tenderness

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Fiction]

??? !!!

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

[Cartoon]

Readings

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By (Cartoonist)

Article

Front cover, 43-48 PDF

A political opiate

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The war on drugs is a folly and a menace

By

Article

51-61 PDF

In darkest Hollywood

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

At the Academy Awards

By

Article

62-66, 68-71 PDF

Prophet of a new postmodernism

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The greater challenge of Salman Rushdie

By

Article

72-76 PDF

Adiós, General

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Saying good-bye to Pinochet

By

Double acrostic

77 PDF

No. 84

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

Puzzle

80 PDF

By the letters

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By ,

1989 / December | View All Issues |
Table of Contents
MicroFiche

Get access to 163 years of
Harper’s for only $19.97

United States Canada

THE CURRENT ISSUE

Harper’s Magazine (June 2013)

June 2013

How to Make Your Own AR-15

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

Long Division

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

The Separating Sickness

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

By

view Table Content

FEATURED ON HARPERS.ORG

[Editor's Note]
Introducing the June Issue of Harper’s Magazine
Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay,
the conspiracy theories of Room 237,
and more
By
[Perspective]
On Gun Control and Collective Rights
The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty
By
“Let’s review our recent national paroxysm about guns, shall we?”
Illustration by Jeremy Traum
[Report]
How to Make Your Own AR-15

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.
By
“Even if federal gun-control advocates got everything they wanted, they couldn’t prevent America’s most popular rifle from being made, sold, and used. Understanding why this is true requires an examination of how the firearm is made.”
Illustration by Jeremy Traum
[Harper's Finest]
Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.
Wherein the author enrolls in a clinical drug trial
By
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”
Illustration by Ernst Kreidolf
[Report]
Broken Heartland

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.
By
“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”
Illustration (detail) by Jeffery Smith

Ratio of military recruiters to college counselors at East Los Angeles’s Roosevelt High School:

5:1

SEPTEMBER 2002 > SEARCH >

Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles)

The majority of young Swedish women are attracted to both men and women.

APRIL 2010 > SEARCH >

“My body was quite happy,” said ISS mission commander Chris Hadfield. “I learned to talk with a weightless tongue.”

SIGN UP > SOURCE > MORE >

Close  X

Subscribe to the Weekly Review newsletter. Don’t worry, we won’t sell your email address!

HARPER’S FINEST

Article — From the May 2007 issue

Manufacturing Depression

By

“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”

Subscribe Today