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Interior with Meat

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The Way of All Flesh

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June 2013

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Introducing the June Issue of Harper’s Magazine

Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay,
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On Gun Control and Collective Rights

The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty

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“Let’s review our recent national paroxysm about guns, shall we?”

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How to Make Your Own AR-15

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“Even if federal gun-control advocates got everything they wanted, they couldn’t prevent America’s most popular rifle from being made, sold, and used. Understanding why this is true requires an examination of how the firearm is made.”

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Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

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Broken Heartland

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“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”

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