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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tim Bower SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Speculation PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Specific Suggestion: General Strike, from October 2007: Letter By Wayne Costigan On Woman marries snake, from November 2007: Letter By Eric Henry On Modernism a la mode, from November 2007: Letter By Martin Filler On Guantanamo baywatch, from December 2007: Letter By Carol Ann Wald Letter By Clive A. Stafford Smith On Of men and mice, from December 2007: Letter By Martin Stephens Letter By Vern Paetkau On Among the reviewers: John Updike and the book-review bugaboo, from December 2007: Letter By Edmund L. Epstein PDF IMAGES
9-13	Notebook/Article The moral equivalent of empire By Jonathan Schell SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Imperialism; International relations; Military leadership; Military policy; 2001-; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear nonproliferation PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Fiction The compliance branch By David Foster Wallace PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Empty bar By Armando Mariño SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments) PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Resistance is surrender By Slavoj Zizek SEE ALSO: Anarchism; Capitalism; Government, Resistance to; Political ethics; Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Death of Dale Earnhardt By Malcolm Morley SEE ALSO: Accidents; Automobile racing drivers; Earnhardt, Dale; Death and burial—Pictorial works; Stock car racing PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Dictator’s Cut By Elham Rajabpur SEE ALSO: Biography; Career as film director; Documentary films; Iran; Islam; Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud; Motion pictures; Stone, Oliver; Production and direction; Religion in motion pictures PDF TEXT IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Fiction ELF-CIO By Mirta Narosky and Burke Butler (Trans.) PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Illustration Te amo Colombia By Renee McGinnis and James Prinz (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Colombia; Palaces PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article The things they ate By Arkady Babchenko and Nick Allen (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Babchenko, Arkady; Biography; Chechnia; Chechnia (Russia); Civil War, 1994; Military life; Operational rations (Military supplies); Russia. Army PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Mein crush By Geoffrey Garrison (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Attachment behavior in children; Berlin; Correspondence PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Sense and flexibility By Li Li and C. Janru Huang (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Lee, Ang; Career as film director; Mass media and sex; Sex counseling; Sex in motion pictures; Sexual excitement PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Group Shot 3 By Gale Antokal SEE ALSO: Silhouettes; Walking PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Those methods were quite wrong By Geoffrey Brooks (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Atrocities; Generals; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Military leadership; Prisoners and prisons, German PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Poem Patent pending By Hugo Williams PDF IMAGES
30-31	Readings/Fiction Is that you, Sister Marguerite? By Marguerite Duras PDF IMAGES
33-38	Article Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading: Notes on the alleged decline of reading By Ursula K. Le Guin SEE ALSO: Literacy; Literature and society; Literature publishing; Reading interests PDF TEXT IMAGES
39-45	Article The Next Bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow’s big crash: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash By Eric Janszen SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Housing policy; Infrastructure (Economics); Insurance; Real estate business; Renewable energy sources; Speculation PDF TEXT IMAGES
46-59	Article Wasteland: A journey through the American cloaca By Frederick Kaufman SEE ALSO: Career in organic wastes recycling; Career in sewage disposal; Organic wastes; Organic wastes as fertilizer; Recycling; Boucher, Robert; Sewage sludge; Askew, Steve PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article Not what it takes: Running for president on less than $2,000 a day By David Gargill SEE ALSO: Career as candidate for U.S. president; Iowa; Cox, John; 2008 PDF IMAGES
66-74	Article Go before you die: A road trip through the “new” Colombia By Patrick Graham SEE ALSO: Cocaine industry; Colombia; Drug traffic; Giraldo, Hernán; Homes and haunts; Journeys—Colombia; Escobar, Pablo; Paramilitary forces; Bolívar, Simón; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
75-80	Fiction Wars in distant lands By Najm Wali and Raymond Stock (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Schlink, Bernhard; Fanon (Book); Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo (Book); Homecoming (Book); Wideman, John Edgar; Kurnaz, Murat; Night train to Lisbon (Book); Mercier, Pascal; Banks, Russell; The reserve (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-89	Review Too true, the art of the aphorism By Arthur Krystal SEE ALSO: Aphorisms and apothegms; Kafka, Franz; Shapiro, Fred R.; Geary's guide to the worlds great aphorists (Book); Geary, James; Gross, John J.; Hofmann, Michael; The Oxford book of aphorisms (Book); The world in a phrase: a brief history of the aphorism (Book); The Yale book of quotations (Book); The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review This way, not that: Nadine Gordimer does as she pleases By Robert Boyers SEE ALSO: Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories (Book); Gordimer, Nadine; Novelists, South African; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Be my valentine: Heart transplants By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Feb 12
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Feb 19
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Feb 26
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Feb 5

By Ken Silverstein

Former Mossad Chief Argues for Talks with Hamas: Halevy’s views beyond the pale of American politics	12:36 PM Feb 20
President Bush, Without Irony, “Assails Democratic Candidates’ Foreign Policy Views”	10:20 AM Feb 29
John Boehner Tees Off $685,000 buys some tasty steaks for a "fiscal hawk"	5:13 PM Feb 20
Department of Irony: United States backs Iran in lawsuit over murdered American	3:47 PM Feb 14
More on the Scandal at the National Republican Congressional Committee	12:10 PM Feb 8
Six Questions for A.J. Rossmiller on the Politics of Intelligence	11:29 AM Feb 18
Inside the Capitol Hill Club: Private “home away from home” for Republican lawmakers	2:15 PM Feb 15
War in Chad: World Bank-backed oil project hasn’t created promised “model” of development	12:33 PM Feb 5
Bookmark This	10:28 AM Feb 1
Tom Ridge for McCain’s Veep?	2:04 PM Feb 27
Yes We Can’t: Pundits fail, flail	1:12 PM Feb 6
Curt Weldon: Back in business Plus: News on the federal investigation	12:00 PM Feb 7
Six Questions for Cathy Allen on How the Democrats Will Run Against McCain	1:08 PM Feb 13
Rumors of McCain-Iseman Relationship Go Back At Least a Year	6:16 PM Feb 21
More Pork for Trident	3:30 PM Feb 14
NRCC Financial Scandal Looks Like an Inside Job	2:36 PM Feb 6
SEIU Replies to Rosselli Resignation Letter	3:50 PM Feb 15
The Meaning of Mitt’s Tears	10:16 AM Feb 8
John McCain’s Charitable Contributions His kids’ private schools are prime beneficiaries	8:21 AM Feb 29
Six Questions on How the GOP Will Run Against Obama for John Brabender	5:09 PM Feb 12
Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Campaign Coverage	6:06 PM Feb 21
Media Alert: To the Point	11:34 AM Feb 25
Internal Dispute at SEIU Deepens Read top official’s resignation letter	9:23 AM Feb 13
The Great Alterman Speaks: Thompson wraps up G.O.P. nomination as Edwards sweeps early Democratic primaries	11:56 AM Feb 14
Meanwhile, Turkey Invades Iraq	3:33 PM Feb 25

By Scott Horton

Rove’s Monday Whoppers	6:05 AM Feb 26
Beowulf’s End Times	6:52 AM Feb 21
Tocqueville on Arts and Sciences in a Democracy	Feb 28
Six Questions for Darius Rejali, Author of ‘Torture and Democracy’	12:04 PM Feb 13
Another Abusive Prosecution by Alice Martin	11:14 AM Feb 24
Jonah’s Fascism	2:57 PM Feb 17
Corruption in a U.S. Attorney’s Office	10:29 AM Feb 10
Six Questions for Alex Gibney, Producer of the Oscar-Nominated ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’	12:15 AM Feb 5
Hide and Seek With the Justice Department	2:26 PM Feb 2
Bush Justice Department Goes After Another Democratic Lawyer (And Why This is Bad News for Yoo and Bradbury)	4:19 PM Feb 9
Douglass—Rising Against Oppression	7:16 AM Feb 19
Donne—‘Love’s Alchemy’	7:14 AM Feb 14
Media Alert	12:49 AM Feb 22
Washington—the Failed Articles of Confederation	12:03 AM Feb 22
Beccaria on Official Criminality	Feb 13
Plato—the Præses lupus	Feb 1
Oscar for ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’	7:58 AM Feb 25
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the National Surveillance State	7:36 AM Feb 19
Whitman’s ‘O Captain’	7:09 AM Feb 12
Time for a Pardon	9:58 AM Feb 29
CBS 60 Minutes Siegelman Story to Air on Sunday	5:32 PM Feb 20
The Valentine’s Day Torture Trifecta	10:47 AM Feb 16
The Bleak Picture on the ‘War on Terror’ Central Front	8:59 AM Feb 19
B’ham News Dispenses More Koolaid	8:38 AM Feb 26
Torture Groundhog Day	1:31 PM Feb 7
Indeed, the Offender May Be Your Boss	11:30 AM Feb 14
The Case for Impeachment	9:10 AM Feb 3
Nietzsche’s Pale Criminal	6:03 AM Feb 26
Chekhov—the Necessity of Redeeming the Past	Feb 6
No Time for Rest in the War on Teachers	7:54 PM Feb 16
The Newspaper and the Schoolteacher	2:32 AM Feb 6
Lovelace’s ‘From Prison’	12:04 AM Feb 22
Jackson on Crimes Committed in the Name of Secrecy	4:52 AM Feb 20
Hölderlin on Pindar’s Nomos	6:36 AM Feb 4
Madison—How Fear of Threats from Abroad is Used to Suppress Liberty	Feb 18
Broadcast from the Ministry of Fear	6:53 AM Feb 27
A Valentine from the Ministry of Love	8:38 AM Feb 14
Harper’s Favorite Son Declares His Race for the Presidency	12:34 AM Feb 1
The Alternate Reality of the ‘Birmingham News’	8:15 AM Feb 27
The Great Tennessee Valley Blackout	8:44 PM Feb 25
Shorts from America’s Legal Hell-Hole	5:41 PM Feb 21
When is a Prosecution Political?	8:17 AM Feb 7
Are the Gitmo Trials Rigged?	9:03 AM Feb 20
Wharton’s ‘Autumn Sunset’	9:06 AM Feb 18
Hegel on Athena’s Owl	7:52 AM Feb 15
Not a Lincoln, But a Fraud	1:18 PM Feb 12
Schurz on Real Patriotism	Feb 8
Pindar’s Nomos	Feb 4
Apollinaire’s ‘Le Pont Mirabeau’	5:00 AM Feb 28
Calvin’s Rose with Thorns	7:01 AM Feb 10
Mann on Myth, Psychoanalysis and Literature	12:51 AM Feb 29
Lincoln’s Whig Credo	7:07 AM Feb 12
Hawthorne—The Iron Rule of Our Day	8:26 AM Feb 16
Siegelman Updates	12:52 AM Feb 29
Another Election Season, Another Political Prosecution in Alabama	1:42 PM Feb 1
Still Writing as Bad as I Can	9:51 AM Feb 18
Democracy G.O.P. Style in Washington State	3:07 PM Feb 11
Catullus—Pining for Lesbia	5:30 AM Feb 7
Camus’s Plague	Feb 9
Media Alert	8:43 PM Feb 8
Eliot’s ‘Ash Wednesday’	5:39 PM Feb 24
Media Alert	11:22 AM Feb 17
Bernard of Clairvaux on Love	Feb 14
Of Crime and Indifference	7:24 AM Feb 14
Abramoff and the Riley Band of Choctaw Republicans	11:05 AM Feb 28
Rilke on Beauty in the Perspective of the Child	Feb 11
Góngora—for El Greco	4:03 AM Feb 2
Six Questions for Ahmed Rashid on the Elections in Pakistan and U.S. Foreign Policy	5:04 AM Feb 28
Macbush Comes to Brooklyn	8:04 AM Feb 15
Rove and Siegelman	9:37 PM Feb 22
Can a Surge Strategy Work in Afghanistan?	12:35 AM Feb 6
Mogilevich Arrested and Charged	12:35 AM Feb 1
Goldoni’s Bout With Lawyering	4:02 AM Feb 2
“Objectivity” or Spinelessness?	9:03 PM Feb 7
Polk Award Recognizes Exposure of U.S. Attorneys Scandal	11:48 AM Feb 19
Media Alert	8:08 PM Feb 19
Smith on the Conspiracies of Tradesmen	5:27 AM Feb 7
Hildegard’s Admonition to Do Justice	8:38 AM Feb 3
Media Alert	11:46 AM Feb 25
Guantánamo Puppet Theater: Intermezzo	9:05 PM Feb 22
Kepler on the Application of Science	Feb 27
Cellini’s Approach to Litigation Management	12:02 AM Feb 23
Hamilton on the Balance Between Liberty and Security	Feb 5
The Great Guantánamo Puppet Theater	8:24 AM Feb 21
Treating the Constitution as a Doormat	8:13 AM Feb 13
Freedom of the Press, Bush Edition	4:53 AM Feb 20
Department of Malicious Falsehoods	12:02 AM Feb 23
Bridge in Brooklyn Noticed for Sale	10:20 AM Feb 25
Media Alert	11:52 AM Feb 12
Six Questions for Anthony Lewis, Author of ‘Gideon’s Trumpet’ and ‘Freedom for the Thought We Hate’	4:54 AM Feb 20
The Ecstatic Vision of History in a Dürer Woodcut	8:09 AM Feb 11
A Lincoln Anecdote	8:37 AM Feb 12
WHNT Blackout Update	5:34 PM Feb 28
Challenging Torture	1:34 PM Feb 4
Media Alert	2:04 PM Feb 27
Ronsard’s Ode to His Mistress	6:04 AM Feb 26
Franklin—When Power Purports to Craft Right	6:27 AM Feb 25
Celebrating the Life of Joseph Brodsky	12:35 AM Feb 6
CBS: More Prosecutorial Misconduct in Siegelman Case	9:18 PM Feb 24
Shakespeare Sonnet 116	8:59 AM Feb 9
A Heart of Steel	9:54 AM Feb 24
Public Presentation	10:33 AM Feb 7
John on Fear and Love	8:53 AM Feb 24
Heym’s ‘Umbra Vitae’	4:54 AM Feb 20
Nino Scalia, Your Hairshirt Is Showing, and Your Bishop Has a Message for You	5:53 PM Feb 12
Jim Haynes’s Long Twilight Struggle	7:29 PM Feb 8
Lorca’s Barren Orange Tree	8:27 AM Feb 16
Wackenroder on Human Commonality in Art	12:18 AM Feb 17
Congress Cites Bolten and Miers for Contempt–But Is the Issue Really Impeachment?	8:06 AM Feb 15

By Mr. Fish

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William F. Buckley Jr.	2:20 PM Feb 29
Fidel Castro	7:06 PM Feb 28
Fox Hunting	4:23 PM Feb 19
Cuba	10:41 AM Feb 26

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