= Subscribers only. Sign in here. Subscribe here.

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

1991 / December | View All Issues |

December 1991

Photography

Front cover PDF

Untitled

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.


Letters

4-9 PDF

Letters

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Notebook

10-15 PDF

More light

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Harper's index

17 PDF

Harper’s index

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Readings

19-45 PDF

[Article]

My daily dives in the dumpster

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Beyond spare change

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Photography]

Mario

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Vegetable house

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Dope

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

In a coma through the coup

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

A real blast

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Dialing for the death penalty

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Cartoon]

Readings

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

The Bob Hope special you can’t turn off

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

‘Tis the season to be clumsy

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Engine trouble

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Cartoon]

Readings

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Reading Roman walls

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Reading books, great or otherwise

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Instant classics

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Selling our innocence abroad

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[illustration]

Fred and Barney’s Mongolian adventure

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Fiction]

The sixties

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Chatting with my idol’s dad

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Photography]

Great Russians, August ’91

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

Front cover, 47-56 PDF

What are universities for? The real crisis on campus is one of identity

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

68-75, 78 PDF

Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

A Midwestern boyhood

Double acrostic

79 PDF

No. 108

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Puzzle

80 PDF

Migratory pattern

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

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

United States Canada

THE CURRENT ISSUE

June 2013

How to Make Your Own AR-15

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Long Division

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The Separating Sickness

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

view Table Content

FEATURED ON HARPERS.ORG

[Editor's Note]
Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay,
the conspiracy theories of Room 237,
and more
[Perspective]
The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty
“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.

“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]
Wherein the author enrolls in a clinical drug trial
“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.

“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

Amount British Nuclear Fuels paid the British Scouts last year to add its logo to their scientist badge:

$49,776

Roughly 80 percent of U.S. cocaine was thought to be contaminated with a drug that causes skin tissues to rot.

Ohio was judged to be the most profane state.

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