Harper's Magazine: November 2007

Archive > 2007 > Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

November 2007

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS
WEB ONLY

	Photo [Cover art] By David Graham (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Romney, Mitt; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Flies in amber, from September 2007: Letter By Larry Nocella On Schoolhouse crock, from September 2007: Letter By Toby Grace Letter By Mike Rose Letter By Tom Papell On Cold rush, from September 2007: Letter By Matt Corks On Lust and disgust, from September 2007: Letter By Jendi Reiter PDF IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article Blowing bubbles By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Great powers; Iraq War, 2003-; Mortgage-backed securities; Mortgage loans; 2001- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-21	Readings/Article The kindness of strangers By Robin Fox SEE ALSO: Causes; Cross-cousin marriage; Democracy; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; 2001-; Protestant work ethic; Strangers; Western influences PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Poem If the dead came back By Robert Pinsky PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Imploding the Boardwalk By Lisa Sanditz SEE ALSO: Las Vegas; Nevada; Wrecking PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Restrictions should apply By Alexander Swartwout SEE ALSO: Family; Bush, George W.; Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Monarchy; 2008; Nepotism; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Photo Untitled 8 By Ori Gersht (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Explosions; Flower arrangement PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Target audience SEE ALSO: Brand choice; Iraq War, 2003-; Marketing; Marketing research; Propaganda; Target marketing PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Polar disorder By Nicholas Johnson SEE ALSO: Antarctica; Independent contractors; The Middle East; Social isolation PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Poem Self-portrait at twenty years By Laura Healy (Trans.) and Roberto Bolaño PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article All that ugly stuff By Hunter S. Thompson SEE ALSO: Errors and blunders, Literary; Humor; Objectivity; Press and politics; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Dance, dance, dance and go crazy By Justin Francavilla SEE ALSO: Dance PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article The conversation SEE ALSO: Career as Justice Department lawyer; Career as Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge; Electronic surveillance; Knowledge, Theory of; McKeown, Margaret; Hawkins, Michael; National security; Bondy, Thomas; Trials, litigation, etc.; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES
28-31	Readings/Fiction Pandemonium By Donald Barthelme PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Friends smacking me (Jay 2) By Martin Kersels SEE ALSO: Hand-to-hand fighting; Male friendship; Kersels, Martin; Pictorial works; Tall people PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Seed capital By Cathy Middleton SEE ALSO: African American men; Child support PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Barbara and David Stone's bookshelf (detail) By Dylan Stone SEE ALSO: Bookcases; Private libraries PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article Making Mitt Romney: How to fabricate a conservative By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Campaign management; Career as presidential candidate; Conservatism; Romney, Mitt; Pictorial works; Political consultants; Political ethics; Politics, Practical PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
41-52	Article Woman marries snake: A peculiar Indian love story By Mischa Berlinski SEE ALSO: Das, Bimbala; Cobras; Hinduism; Marriage to snake; Orissa (India); Serpent worship; Serpents PDF IMAGES
53-58	Article A lie that tells the truth: Memoir and the art of memory By Joel Agee SEE ALSO: Autobiographical fiction; Biography; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Agee, Joel; Literature PDF IMAGES
60-67	Collection Welcome to The World By Jason Fulford (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate) PDF IMAGES
61	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alien labor, East Indian; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Real estate business; Real estate developers; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
62	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Architectural models; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Flies; Real estate development; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Downhill skiing; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
63	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Building; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Skyscrapers; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Camels; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Electric lines; Electric power-plants; Racetracks (Horse racing); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
64	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Billboards; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Skyscrapers; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Self-portraits; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Three-dimensional display systems; United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
65	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Billboards; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
66	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dragons; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Ice carving; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alien labor, East Indian; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Swimming pools; The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Tourism; United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
67	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jason Fulford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); The World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates : Emirate) PDF IMAGES
68-75	Article Habits of seeing: The unsettling films of Michael Haneke By Jennifer Szalai SEE ALSO: Austria; Criticism and interpretation; Evaluation; Biscombe, Lucas; Djoudi, Malik Nait; Haneke, Michael; Motion pictures; Pictorial works; Violence in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
76-80	Fiction A report on our recent troubles By Steven Millhauser PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories, American; Wilson, Emily R.; Freeman, Judith; Høeg, Peter; Terkel, Studs; The Archer files (Book); The death of Socrates (Book); The long embrace: Raymond Chandler and the woman he loved (Book); The quiet girl (Book); Nolan, Tom; Touch and go: a memoir (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review Modernism a la mode: How architecture went from radical to chic By Mark Kingwell SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern; From a cause to a style: modernist architecture's encounter with the American city (Book); Makers of modern architecture (Book); Filler, Martin; Nathan Glazer PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review Buried in the life: Thomas Hardy and the limits of biographies By Terry Eagleton SEE ALSO: Biography; Tomalin, Claire; Pictorial works; Pite, Ralph; Hardy, Thomas; Thomas Hardy (Book); Thomas Hardy: the guarded life (Book) PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Full circle By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
NO COMMENT
MR. FISH

Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Nov 13
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Nov 27
Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz	Nov 6
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Nov 20

By Ken Silverstein

Roger Cohen: Viva Mubarak, Fuera Chavez!	12:11 PM Nov 29
The Washington Post and the “Freedom Agenda”	12:16 PM Nov 7
A Surge in Plagiarism?	10:14 AM Nov 2
Six Questions for Douglas Macgregor on Iraq and the “Surge”	3:35 PM Nov 27
When it Comes to Hillary, People Have No Sense of Huma	10:29 AM Nov 8
Not Just Republicans Spreading Rumors About Hillary’s Lesbian Affair In Huma Abedin, finally a good reason to support Clinton	12:37 PM Nov 7
The Press Squeezes Blood From a (Campaign) Stone	11:32 AM Nov 1
Six Questions for Chris Whalen on our speculation-based economy and the 2008 elections	9:41 AM Nov 29
A Pandering Obama on Social Security	11:02 AM Nov 26
Karl Rove’s Insight Penetrates Newsweek	11:29 AM Nov 19
Menendez Case Heats Up	2:20 PM Nov 9
“Family Values” Keller Skirts Questions, Smears Messenger	11:57 AM Nov 19
The Hughes Effect: They hate us more than ever	4:04 PM Nov 1
The Southern Poverty Business Model	9:58 AM Nov 2
Voting “Neigh” on the Horsemeat Ban My friend Flicka: high in iron	1:53 PM Nov 16
Ex-Congressman John Sweeney Cleared of Some Wrongdoing He also needs to cut down on smoking	2:45 PM Nov 16
Jarch Capital’s Sudanese Gambit	10:04 AM Nov 20
Congressman Ric Keller’s Chronology of Political and Family Values	9:41 PM Nov 14
The Stern Gang and the SEIU	11:57 PM Nov 29
Animal Welfare Institute Replies to Horse Slaughter Story	12:19 PM Nov 21

By Scott Horton

‘Fall of the House of Bush:’ Six Questions for Craig Unger	12:25 AM Nov 19
Hofmannsthal’s ‘Manche freilich. . .’	5:59 AM Nov 10
ibn Khaldūn’s Definition of Politics	8:00 AM Nov 28
Whitman’s ‘Dirge for Two Veterans’	6:07 AM Nov 12
Tacitus on the Costs of War	Nov 26
Bush’s Musharraf Envy	6:52 AM Nov 6
Passion for Penguins	10:52 AM Nov 27
Hughes’s ‘Let America Be America Again’	5:23 AM Nov 8
A Song for St Cecilia’s Day	5:48 PM Nov 23
Siegelman Updates	12:09 AM Nov 1
Is the Roll-Out Sputtering?	5:27 AM Nov 13
Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’	10:31 AM Nov 3
Milton on Liberty’s Sharp and Double Edge	Nov 5
Take a Pilgrimage	10:55 AM Nov 11
Change or Continuity for Turkmenistan?	6:19 AM Nov 8
Does Bush Have a Pakistan Policy?	3:22 AM Nov 9
Froissart on the Dream of Equality Among Men	Nov 17
Micah on the Fruits of Injustice	Nov 4
Six Questions for Steve LeVine, Author of ‘The Oil and the Glory’	12:26 AM Nov 7
Norman Mailer, Remembered	12:15 PM Nov 10
Macaulay: Milton’s Lesson on the Need for a Government of Limited Powers	Nov 23
What Does Putin Want?	8:48 AM Nov 12
The JAGs Set the Record Straight	1:02 PM Nov 4
U.S. Attorneys Scandal: Removal of Canary Sought as Paulose Resigns	12:35 AM Nov 20
Kant on the Price of Justice Foregone	Nov 19
The Torture Litmus Test	12:12 AM Nov 2
Happy Counterterrorism Day	2:11 AM Nov 5
‘We Do Not Torture’: The Lies Started in 1967	2:07 AM Nov 5
Diogenes on the Folly of Feasting	Nov 22
Well, That Settles It	8:48 AM Nov 30
Thanksgiving 2007	10:58 AM Nov 22
Eisenhower on the Opportunity Cost of Defense Spending	Nov 12
The Two-Front Battle Over Torture	3:29 PM Nov 18
Coleridge’s Inner Asian Vision	10:57 AM Nov 3
Gracián on the Value of Integrity	Nov 24
The Bush Touch: Turning Friends into Enemies	12:07 AM Nov 26
The Justice Department’s Culture of Torture	1:16 AM Nov 6
Media Alert	2:10 PM Nov 4
Baudelaire on the Role of Imagination	Nov 6
Baudelaire’s ‘The Balcony’	1:14 AM Nov 6
The Psychologists and Gitmo	9:08 AM Nov 18
Bridge to Nowhere	9:39 AM Nov 16
McCain on Waterboarding	6:27 PM Nov 29
Did McClellan Accuse Bush of Lying to Federal Prosecutors?	3:09 PM Nov 24
Burckhardt on the Historical Might-Have-Been	Nov 30
A Kinder, Gentler Lawfare	4:56 PM Nov 30
Hagel’s Salvo	2:36 PM Nov 29
Fire Brian Roehrkasse	7:10 AM Nov 12
Marine Lawyer Gagged by Pentagon	1:39 PM Nov 8
Prosecutorial Obstruction of Justice in the Siegelman Case	12:12 AM Nov 2
DOJ Watch	3:58 AM Nov 9
Getting Closer to the Truth about the Blackwater Incident	7:41 AM Nov 14
Mitt’s Muslim Problem	11:37 AM Nov 28
Siegelman Updates	8:58 AM Nov 10
Department of Painfully Inappropriate Comparisons	3:41 PM Nov 19
Addison’s Principle of Humanity	Nov 20
Burke on Why Men of Good Will Must Unite	Nov 9
Sophocles’s Momento Mori	Nov 14
Alfonso el Sabio on the Cosmology	Nov 11
Montaigne on the World of Books	Nov 7
Public Presentation	11:43 AM Nov 10
Stendhal on Literature and Politics	Nov 16
Elections as Art	7:30 AM Nov 27
Mary Jo White, for the Defense	8:05 AM Nov 15
The Missing IG Report on Maher Arar	11:24 AM Nov 16
Coleridge on the Power of Imagination	Nov 3
Laozi on the Futility of Heavy-Handed Rule	Nov 21
Hughes’s ‘The Colored Soldier’	11:11 AM Nov 11
Milosz’s ‘Faithful Mother Tongue’	8:37 AM Nov 16
St Anthony’s Book	Nov 25
Defund the Democrats: Putting Your Law Enforcement Dollars to Good Use	12:09 AM Nov 2
Threads of Splendor	5:20 PM Nov 24
Niebuhr on the Ethical Use of Power	Nov 15
DOJ and Contractor Fraud	6:56 PM Nov 4
Dryden’s ‘Happy the Man’	8:02 AM Nov 28
The Cookie Crumbles	6:52 AM Nov 15
It’s the Oil, Stupid	12:06 AM Nov 25
Rachel Sklar Responds	12:08 AM Nov 1
Cather’s New Mexico Sky	Nov 29
Javert’s Amazing Pirouettes	2:01 AM Nov 5
Salon 1, TIME 0	8:46 AM Nov 28
Resurrecting the Star Chamber	9:08 AM Nov 23
U.S. Seeks to Prosecute Pulitzer Prize-Winning A.P. Photographer	9:01 AM Nov 21
Poe’s ‘The Conqueror Worm’	12:17 AM Nov 30
Nicholas of Kues: the Cosmographer’s Tale	Nov 18
Trent Lott’s Resignation	3:13 PM Nov 27
Sappho’s Exhortation to Learning	Nov 10
DOJ Torture Memo # 6 Identified	12:26 AM Nov 7
Avicenna on Humans as Social Animals	Nov 2
Tortured Editorials	7:18 AM Nov 4
ExxonMobil’s Alabama Paydirt	3:52 AM Nov 4
Hopkins’s ‘Candle Indoors’	12:18 AM Nov 18
Media Alert	5:14 PM Nov 5
Tax Advice for American Expatriates in Britain, Freely Dispensed by Mark Twain	12:16 AM Nov 30
The Trial of Alberto Gonzales	8:38 AM Nov 18
Durkheim on Suicide	Nov 8
Freud on the Question of Humankind’s Fate	Nov 13
Change or Continuity for the Bush Justice Department?	8:28 AM Nov 17
Warren’s ‘A Way to Love God’	12:08 AM Nov 1
Jonson’s ‘Inviting a Friend to Supper’	12:18 AM Nov 22
The APA Responds	10:20 AM Nov 22
The Fox News Prolefeed	6:02 AM Nov 9
About Karl’s Emails. . .	8:00 AM Nov 13
Updates on America’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner	3:55 PM Nov 27
From Akhmatova’s ‘Requiem’	6:00 AM Nov 14
Eliot’s ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’	12:35 AM Nov 20
Mayakovsky’s ‘To his own beloved self the author dedicates these lines’	12:07 AM Nov 26
Strindberg’s Inferno	Nov 27
The Bellinger-Sands Debate	5:03 AM Nov 5
Lessing’s Search for Truth	Nov 1
Veterans Day 2007	2:43 PM Nov 12

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	1:22 PM Nov 30
A Cartoon	4:30 PM Nov 16
A Cartoon	6:43 PM Nov 2
A Cartoon	12:29 PM Nov 9

USERNAME
PASSWORD
Subscriber? · Lost password? Lost username? · More help