Archive: Aug 2009

From Harper’s, July 2009: D. Graham Burnett and Jeffrey Andrew Dolven on Irony From “The Ironic Cloud,” by D. Graham Burnett and Jeffrey Andrew Dolven in the July 2009 Harper’s.…

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On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, and the atomic age was born. To mark it, read the gripping account published by the U.P.’s James McGlinchy: Driving…

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From Harper’s, July 2009: Findings From “Findings” in the July 2009 Harper’s. Biophysicists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center discovered that red pandas can taste aspartame, neotame, and sucralose and…

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John R. MacArthur is publisher of Harper’s Magazine and author of the book You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. This column originally appeared in the…

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From Harper’s, July 2009: Kevin Baker on Barack Hoover Obama From “Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again” by Kevin Baker in the July 2009 Harper’s.…

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Among those who are most engaged with them, there is a general consensus that the military commissions created by the Bush Administration were a huge embarrassment. The question is whether…

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The firing of nine U.S. attorneys at the end of 2006 provoked a special congressional probe, an internal investigation by the Department of Justice, and an investigation by a special…

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Congress defied President Barack Obama and adjourned for the summer without passing a health-care-reform bill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved its own version of the bill 31-28 (with…

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From Harper’s, 2004: Scott Ritter on Scott Speicher From “Missing in Iraq: The United States has not found Scott Speicher either” by Scott Ritter in the June 2004 Harper’s. On…

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In 1864, Salzburg’s Mozarteum Foundation secured a collection of musical autographs known as “Nannerl’s Notebook”—long assumed to have been a collection of pieces assembled by Leopold Mozart for his daughter…

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Ye juster Powers of Love and Fate, Give me the reason why A lover crost And all hopes lost May not have leave to die. It is but just ;…

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No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future; or…

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