Harper's Magazine: May 2008

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May 2008

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: Balloons; Uncle Sam (Nickname) PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Harper's index, from January 2008: Letter By William Peter Shantz On Lust in translation, from January 2008: Letter By Robert Lewis On Resistance is surrender, from February 2008: Letter By Simon Critchley On Mudville, from March 2008: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
9-12	Notebook/Article Estate sale By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Foreign economic relations; Foreign ownership; Globalization; International economic relations; Investments, Foreign; Real property PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-21	Readings/Article A great amnesia By Marilynne Robinson SEE ALSO: Abolitionists; Education, Higher; Educational equalization; Elite (Social sciences); Memory (Philosophy); Middle West PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poem The utopian wars By Thomas Lux PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Former Detroit Public Schools Book Depository By James D. Griffioen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment of property; Detroit; Mutilation, defacement, etc. PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Schöner tag 2 (beautiful day 2) By Sven Kroner SEE ALSO: Effect of human beings on; Nature; Pollution; Water PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Poem Boys By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Untitled (spray) By Kenichi Yokono SEE ALSO: Fantasy; Horror PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Most favored nation SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. National Security Adviser—Humor; Zhou, Enlai; Wang, Hai-jung; Kissinger, Henry; 1949-1976; 1969-1974; Overpopulation; Population; Views on overpopulation—Humor; Women's rights; Mao, Zedong PDF IMAGES
25-27	Readings/Article Elementary school By Édouard Launet and Dorna Khazeni (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Amsterdam; Congresses; French literature; Houellebecq, Michel; Netherlands; Sex in literature; Study and teaching PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Official probe By Gloria Squitiro SEE ALSO: Career as Kansas City (Mo.) mayor—Humor; Christmas cards; Diagnosis; Diseases; Kansas City; Funkhouser, Mark; Mayors PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article My metaphor weighs tons By William Davies King SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Santa Barbara PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article A conspiracy of dunces SEE ALSO: Archives; Assassination; Assassination—Archives; Assassins; Ruby, Jack; Kennedy, John F.; Oswald, Lee Harvey; Mafia PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Search and destroy SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Firearms ownership; Investigation; McGuire, Melanie; Murder; Trials, litigation, etc.; McGuire, William PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The death of Lazarus Averbuch By Aleksandar Hemon PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Grid By Nicholas Evans-Cato SEE ALSO: Buildings PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Photo Cigarette By Sarah Pickering (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Dwellings; Fire and fire prevention; Fires PDF IMAGES
35-42	Article Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits By Wendell Berry SEE ALSO: Biotic communities; Marlowe, Christopher; Energy conservation; Energy policy; Environmental policy; Global Warming; Government policy; Land use; Science and the arts; Tragical history of Doctor Faustus (Book) PDF IMAGES
43-47	Article Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know By Kevin P. Phillips SEE ALSO: Gross domestic product; Inflation (Finance); Political ethics; Prices; Standards; Statistical methods; -Statistics; Unemployment PDF IMAGES
48-49	Article My lobby, myself: How John McCain's hypocrisy is laundered as reform By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; Campaign funds; Corrupt practices; McCain, John; Lobbyists; 2008 PDF IMAGES
50-62	Article The battle of ideas: Searching for the opposition in post-Fidel Cuba By Patrick Symmes SEE ALSO: Book burning; Censorship; Cuba; Emigration and immigration; Castro, Fidel; Libraries and state; Opposition (Political science); Refugees; Resignation from office PDF IMAGES
63-69	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Lena Herzog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Boundaries; Brazil; Guyana; Mountains; Venezuela PDF IMAGES Collection Gardens of stone By Lena Herzog (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
70-78	Fiction The next thing By Steven Millhauser PDF IMAGES
79-80	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Kertész, Imre; Winterson, Jeanette; Appignanesi, Lisa; Mad, bad, and sad: women and the mind doctors (Book); Demetz, Peter; Prague in danger: the years of German occupation, 1939-45—memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war (Book); The pathseeker (Book); The stone gods (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-86	Review The fog of Abu Ghraib: Errol Morris and the “bad apples” By W.J.T. (W.J. Thomas) Mitchell SEE ALSO: Career as director—Reviews; Morris, Errol PDF IMAGES
87-94	Review Irrational man: Gershom Scholem's decisive years By Paul Reitter SEE ALSO: Skinner, Anthony David; Diaries; Scholem, Gershom Gerhard; Israel; Jewish scholars; Lamentations of youth: the diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919 (Book); Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department A (k)night at the opera By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
SENTENCES
NO COMMENT
MR. FISH

Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	May 6
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	May 13

By Ken Silverstein

Goldberg’s Online Mugging	8:32 PM May 1
Journalism Ethics Lessons from the Iraqi War’s Chief Salesman	8:26 AM May 1
Kurt Andersen and the Media’s Obama Crush	9:14 AM May 7
Hillary Shoots From the Left, Hits Foot	9:49 AM May 5
Africa’s Worst Dictator: No, it’s not Mugabe	8:29 AM May 7
Palestinians Responsible for Israeli Killing of Palestinians: Post Op-Ed columnist hits new low	9:47 AM May 5
Why I Like Hillary: She’s a bloodthirsty monster	8:02 AM May 8
San Diego G.O.P. Headed by Co-founder of Piracy Group	10:13 AM May 5
More on Hillary the Bloodthirsty Monster	7:13 AM May 9
Heckuva Job, Palfrey Prosecutors	7:43 AM May 2
North Carolina “Robo-callers” Exposed	9:17 AM May 1
Bolton and “Conservatism”	8:31 PM May 1
McCain’s Burma Connection	9:16 AM May 12
Exclusive Video: Hillary in the Führerbunker	4:13 PM May 12
Obama, Hamas and “Nuance”	8:27 AM May 13

By Wyatt Mason

Inherently Subversive

12:03 PM

May 13

By Scott Horton

The Afghan Opium Dreams of David Ignatius	8:10 AM May 1
A Discussion with Philippe Sands	8:51 AM May 2
Taxi to the Dark Side at Princeton on Saturday Afternoon	10:26 AM May 9
Akhmatova—For the Memory of a Friend	8:48 AM May 11
Loser Take All	1:39 PM May 5
Dirty Money	1:50 PM May 5
Machiavelli—On Communing with Greatness	9:13 AM May 11
Six Questions for Sidney Blumenthal, Author of The Strange Death of Republican America	11:56 AM May 13

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	6:52 AM May 2
A Cartoon	7:37 AM May 9

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MAY 2008

NUMBERS RACKET
Why the Economy Is Worse Than We Know
By Kevin Phillips

MY LOBBY, MYSELF
How John McCain's Hypocrisy Is Laundered As Reform
By Ken Silverstein

THE NEXT THING
A story by Steven Millhauser

Also: Patrick Symmes, Wendell Berry

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