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January 2012

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Jack Unruh SEE ALSO: Bankers; Wood, Grant; Homeowners; Legal status, laws, etc. PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Broken Britain, from November 2011: Letter By Scott Liddle and Daniel Susskind Letter By Benjamin Eastham On I walked with a zombie, from November 2011: Letter By Amy Wilentz On Search and destroy, from November 2011: Letter By William Broylee PDF IMAGES
6-10	Easy chair/Article Semper infidelis By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Conservatism; East and West; Intercultural Communication; Iraq War, 2003-; Islam; Liberalism; Political culture; Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article Here comes everybuddy By Andy Merrifield SEE ALSO: Arab Spring; Shirky, Clay; Facebook; Finnegans wake (Book); Here comes everybody (Book); Joyce, James; Occupy Wall Street (Protest movement); Online social networks; Protest movements; Radicalism; Rural-urban migration; Social movements; Sociology, Urban; Twitter; Urban poor; Working class; World politics PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Something in the way SEE ALSO: Aberdeen; Bridges; Homes and haunts; Cobain, Kurt; Name; Rock musicians; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Ware By Neo Rauch SEE ALSO: Art appreciation; Art patrons PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Cloak and swagger By Aaron Barr and Mark Trynor SEE ALSO: Barr, Aaron; Career in computer security; Computer hackers; Freedom of speech; Trynor, Mark; Privacy, Right of PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Duck blind, Berry Bay, Louisiana, December 2001 By Nell Campbell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Duck shooting PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Negotiated press SEE ALSO: Arab countries; Career as Al Jazeera's managing director; Iraq War, 2003-; Mass media and the war; Objectivity; Records and correspondence; Television broadcasting of news; Khanfar, Wadah PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Anon, anon SEE ALSO: Access control; Obama, Barack; Career as U.S. president; Disclosure of information; Government information; Government policy; 2009-; Transparency in government; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Blunder siege SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Arizona; Career as actor; Career as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.; Cockfighting; Discrimination In Law Enforcement; Llovera, Jesus Sanchez; Arpaio, Joe; Law enforcement; Maricopa County; Sheriffs; Seagal, Steven; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article America By Hoyt Rogers (Trans.) and Yves Bonnefoy SEE ALSO: Balloons; Biography; Children In Literature; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Poets, French; Bonnefoy, Yves PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Transporting knowledge By Paco Pomet SEE ALSO: Knowledge, Theory of; Manual work; Storage And Moving Trade; Wagons; Working class PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Rite hand in By Beáta Megyesi, Christiane Schaefer, and Kevin Knight SEE ALSO: Handshaking; Rites and ceremonies; Secret societies; Signs and symbols PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Narcissus and Goldmund By Tai-Shan Schierenberg SEE ALSO: Church buildings; Forests and forestry PDF IMAGES
28-36	Article Stop payment! A homeowners' revolt against the banks By Christopher Ketcham SEE ALSO: Bankers; Capitalists and financiers; Koppa, Charles J.; Financial crises; Foreclosure; Mantor, George; Homeowners; Housing; Land titles; Legal status, laws, etc.; Mortgage-backed securities; Mortgage Loan Servicing; Campbell, Steve; Trotter, Vermont; Views on quiet title actions PDF IMAGES
37-49	Article Calderón's war: The gruesome legacy of Mexico's antidrug campaign By Cecilia Ballí SEE ALSO: Career as president of Mexico; Civil Rights; Disappeared persons; Drug traffic; Calderón Hinojosa, Felipe; Human Rights; Kidnapping; Mexico Ej Rcito; Military Law; Military offenses; Murder; Operations Other Than War; Police corruption; Torture; Violence PDF IMAGES
50-59	Article The long draw: On the trail of an artistic mystery in the American West By Jeremy Miller SEE ALSO: Artists; Career as expedition artist in West (U.S.); Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Discoveries in geography; Errors, inventions, etc.; Egloffstein, F.W.; Geography; Grand Canyon (Ariz.); 1860-1890; Pictorial works; Southwest, New PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article Her heart inform her tongue: Language lost and found By Alexandra Fuller SEE ALSO: Acquisition; Fuller, Alexandra; Biography; Chimurenga War19661980; Cuernavaca; Cuernavaca (Mexico); Homes and haunts—Zimbabwe; Intercultural Communication; Journeys—Mexico—Cuernavaca; Spanish Language; Zimbabwe PDF IMAGES
65-70	Fiction The pharmacist from Jena By Michael Dahlie PDF IMAGES
71-73	New books/Review New books By Larry McMurtry SEE ALSO: Biography; Burnett, D. Graham; Higher gossip: essays and criticism (Book); Bezos, Jeffrey; Updike, John; One click: Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon.com (Book); Brandt, Richard L.; The sounding of the whale (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-78	Review Unfaithful: The false nostalgia of Mad men By Jenny Diski SEE ALSO: Television programs PDF IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Coined words By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By J. Gabriel Boylan	Jan 3
Weekly Review By Emily Stokes	Jan 10
Weekly Review By Justin Stone	Jan 17
Weekly Review By Sara Breselor	Jan 24
Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Jan 31

By Scott Horton

Obama Signs the NDAA, World Does Not End (Yet)	1:08 PM Jan 3
Hobbes’s Mortal Gods: Six Questions for Ted H. Miller	11:02 AM Jan 9
Gitmo at Ten	10:53 AM Jan 11
Donne: An Anatomy of the World	11:38 AM Jan 13
Martin Luther King Jr.: Nonviolence and the Struggle Between Rich and Poor	11:07 AM Jan 16
Spanish Court Resumes Gitmo Prosecution	11:03 AM Jan 18
The Operators: Six Questions for Michael Hastings	1:34 PM Jan 20
Lessing: In Praise of Laziness	10:41 AM Jan 23

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	12:21 PM Jan 6
A Cartoon	2:28 PM Jan 13
A Cartoon	1:20 PM Jan 20
A Cartoon	12:05 PM Jan 27

How Christopher Hitchens Flip-flopped and Fell From Grace

By John R. MacArthur

4:59 PM

Jan 18

Thomas Frank on The Rachel Maddow Show By Harper's Magazine	4:57 PM Jan 6
Links: The January 2012 Issue By Harper's Magazine	5:03 PM Jan 9
Rigoberto By Daniel Alarcón	3:24 PM Jan 23
An Excerpt From “Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets” By Barry C. Lynn	10:44 AM Jan 25
Into the Harper’s Archive: On Monopolies By Harper's Magazine	12:01 PM Jan 27
Planet Occupy By Nathan Schneider	10:35 AM Jan 30

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June 2012

WILD THINGS
Animal Nature, Human Racism, and the Future of Zoos
By David Samuels

MY OLD MAN
On the road, a Life real and Imagined
By Clancy Martin

Also: Richard Ford, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Underearners Anonymous--a new cure for a new disease?

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