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Archive: 1972

A market for snake oil

by Alden Whitman,

Marx is dead

by Richard Schickel,

How Crazy Horse was killed

by George Keithley,

Up against the system in Seattle

by Patrick Douglas,

Did you ever slip on red blood?

by Joyce Carol Oates,

The ethics of addiction

by Thomas Stephen Szasz,

Portrait of an aging despot

by Tom Buckley,

Now and when

by R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster) Fuller,

Beyond reelection day

by Richard Reeves,

The aircraft brake scandal

by Kermit Vandivier,

Marching to different drummers

by Arthur J. Roth,

A dollar for the mugger

by Ruth Mooney,

Field notes on the changing South

by John Fischer,

Phony Indians, a Bavarian village, a circuit-riding city manager, and other unlikelihoods

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

About this issue

by Harper’s Staff,

About this issue

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Leonard Soned,

Singing Wagner, Weber, and Verdi

by Harper’s Staff,

Chester Kallman

by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden,

A voice of importance

Truth and/or fairness in the news

by Nelson W. Polsby,

The Sam Ervin show

by Laurence Leamer,

Backward and forward with technology

Art by Stacy V. Jones, Tom Hansen,

Eight months on full feed

by Vance Nye Bourjaily,

Burial

by Alice Walker,

For My Sister Molly

by Alice Walker,

Mickey Mouse in the mountains

by Peter Browning,

The imponderable young

by Russell S. Beecher,

The scientist as shaman

by Malachi Martin,

Kowtowing in China

by Jonathan D. Spence,

A happy death

by Albert Camus,Translated by Richard Howard,

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