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December 2011

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	Illustration Detroit industry, north wall (detail) By Diego Rivera SEE ALSO: Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Industries; Manufacturing industries; Working class PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On Pennies from heaven, from October 2011: Letter By Russell Arben Fox Letter By Doug Barrett On Leveling the field, from October 2011: Letter By Mark Brenner Letter By Christopher R. Beha PDF IMAGES
8-12	Easy chair/Article More government, please! By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Businesspeople; Capitalists and financiers; Career as Civil Works Administration administrator; Civilian Conservation Corps U S; Deficit financing; Deregulation; Financial crises; Fiscal Policy; Free enterprise; Government spending policy; Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd); Job Creation; Boehner, John A.; 2009-; New Deal, 1933-1939; Private Companies; Recessions; Strikes and lockouts; Taxation; Uncertainty; Unemployment; Views on job creation PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-22	Readings/Article The decline of gossip By Joseph Epstein SEE ALSO: American literature; English literature; Gossip PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article A very palpable hit SEE ALSO: Cocaine; Death and burial; Drug use; Early modern, 1500-1700; Exhumation; Thackeray, John Francis; Views on Shakespeare's use of cocaine; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Schatzsuche (treasure hunt) By Andreas Meichsner (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leisure; Recreation; Ski Resorts PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article Double zoo By Andrew Brown (Trans.) and Roland Barthes SEE ALSO: Acupuncture; Athletes; Factories; Journeys—China; Kristeva, Julia; Opera; Barthes, Roland; Surgery; Women Athletes; Zoos PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Collection Readings By Amy Elkins (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Zak (second row, university team captain), Princeton, NJ By Amy Elkins (Photog.) SEE ALSO: College athletes; Princeton; Princeton University; Rugby football players; Sports PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Dan (wing/fullback), New Haven, CT By Amy Elkins (Photog.) SEE ALSO: College athletes; New Haven; Rugby football players; Sports; Yale University PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article The forced estate SEE ALSO: Communication policy; Freedom of information; Government and the press; The Internet; Mass media; Mass Media Policy PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Representative democracy SEE ALSO: Demonstrations; Occupy Wall Street (Protest movement); Political activists; Protest movements; Wall Street (New York, New York); Zuccotti Park (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Tompkins Square Park riot, 1988 By Weiwei Ai (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Police; Riot Control; Riots; Tompkins Square Park New York New York PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article History deletes itself By Hans-Ulrich Obrist SEE ALSO: Access control; Electronic records; Errors, inventions, etc.; Expurgated Books; Orwell, George; Internet domain names; Interviews; Assange, Julian; Auchi, Nadhmi; Trials, litigation, etc.; Views on rewriting history; WikiLeaks (Organization) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The war on error By Abu 'Adnan Suhail SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Anti-Americanism; Conspiracy theories; Disinformation; Errors, inventions, etc.; Foreign public opinion; Iran; Iraq War, 2003-; The Middle East; Qaida (Organization); September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The first venom By Ben Marcus PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Instruction and study; Masks; Piano PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Poem Card 19: The sun By Brenda Shaughnessy PDF IMAGES
34-40	Article The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith By Alan P. Lightman SEE ALSO: Big bang theory; Cosmology; Expanding universe; Inflationary universe; Life on other planets; Plurality of Worlds; Religion and science PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
41-50	Article Abraham's children: Toward a right of return for Palestinians By Bernard Avishai SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Career as president of Palestinian National Authority; Civil Rights; Foreign economic relations; Human settlements; International Status; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; Legal status, laws, etc.; Abbas, Mahmoud; Membership; The Middle East; 2009-; Palestine; Palestinian Arabs; Pictorial works; Reparations for historical injustices; United Nations; World politics PDF IMAGES
52-61	Article Drip, Jordan: Israel's water war with Palestine By Ben Ehrenreich SEE ALSO: Arab countries; Arab-Israeli conflict; Demonstrations; Human settlements; Israel; Jordan River; Palestinian Arabs; Protest movements; Tiberias Lake (Israel); Water resources development; Water rights; Water-supply; West Bank PDF IMAGES
62-67	Article American vespers: The ebbing of the body politic By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Cancer; Decadence In Literature; Degeneration; Shorris, Earl; Ethics; Health; Patients PDF IMAGES
68-75	Article A rising tide: Planning the future of a sinking island By Andrew Marantz SEE ALSO: Career as prime minister of Tuvalu; Climatic changes; Economic assistance; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Islands; Toafa, Maatia PDF IMAGES
77-86	Fiction The good Samaritan By Joyce Carol Oates PDF IMAGES
87-89	New books/Review New books By Larry McMurtry SEE ALSO: Rasputin, A.A. (Aleksandr Anatol'evich); Biography; Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman (Book); Hedy's folly: the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world (Book); Pictorial works; Rhodes, Richard; Massie, Robert K.; Bartlett, Rosamund; Tolstoy: a Russian life (Book); Tolstoy, Leo, graf PDF IMAGES
90-93	Review Man of the world: Christopher Hitchens's marks and misses By Terry Eagleton SEE ALSO: Arguably: Essays (Book); Hitchens, Christopher; Criticism and interpretation; Pictorial works PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
94-98	Review Speakeasy: A Czech's boozy refuge from writer's bloc By Joshua Cohen SEE ALSO: Authors, Czech; Hrabal, Bohumil; Dancing lessons for the advanced in age (Book); Gaps (Book); In-house weddings (Book); Heim, Michael Henry; Pictorial works; Liman, Tony; Vita nuova (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department 3 down and counting By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Sara Breselor	Dec 6
Weekly Review By J.G. Vaccaro	Dec 13
Weekly Review By Ryann Liebenthal	Dec 20
Weekly Review By Jeremy Keehn	Dec 27

By Scott Horton

Blair Addresses the CIA, Drones, and Pakistan	2:56 PM Dec 1
Unpardonable	7:26 PM Dec 6
Inside the CIA’s Black Site in Bucharest	11:37 AM Dec 8
Dasht-e-Leili, Ten Years Later	2:02 PM Dec 13
With Liberty and Justice for Some: Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald	9:51 AM Dec 16
Court of Appeal Orders Release of Bagram Prisoner	2:45 PM Dec 19
The Pentagon and its Sock Puppets	1:27 PM Dec 27
Tolstoy: The Chain of Ideas that Constitutes Art	7:26 PM Dec 28

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	11:23 AM Dec 2
A Cartoon	10:48 AM Dec 9
A Cartoon	12:39 PM Dec 16
A Cartoon	2:59 PM Dec 23
A Cartoon	12:07 PM Dec 30

President Obama Richly Deserves To Be Dumped By John R. MacArthur	12:16 PM Dec 14
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens By John R. MacArthur	7:04 PM Dec 16

Six Questions for Ben Marcus By Jacob Z. Gross	12:21 PM Dec 2
Panel Discussion: The 9/11 Effect (Video) By Harper's Magazine	9:30 AM Dec 2
December Issue Web Roundup By Harper's Magazine	10:50 AM Dec 7
Six Questions for Jeff Sharlet By Jeremy Keehn	11:03 AM Dec 9
Occupy Wall Street’s Free-Speech Appeal By Nathan Schneider	10:40 AM Dec 12
Six Questions for Jay Kirk By James Sligh	4:26 PM Dec 20
The Week on Harpers.org By Harper's Magazine	3:18 PM Dec 23
The Iraq War Review By Harper's Magazine	3:20 PM Dec 23
Friedrich Egloffstein’s “Grand Cañon” Drawings: An Interactive Map	11:55 AM Dec 28
Yearly Review	12:11 PM Dec 30

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