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Archive: 1979

Loosely Speaking

by Joseph Sobran,

The First Amendment makes strange bedfellows

Ordinary miracles

by Christopher Porterfield,

The limbo of literacy

by Frances Taliaferro,

Aesthetic suicide

by Katha Pollitt,

In our time

by Harper’s Staff,

National health

Art by Tom Wolfe,

The hunter and the hunted

by James Atlas,

To the Campanile

by Ella Leffland,

A short story

The public debate

by Ike Pappas, Haynes Bonner Johnson, George Herman,

Face the Nation

Minutes of a village meeting

by Harper’s Staff,

Minutes of a village meeting

Translated by Beñat LeCagot,

About the author

by Harper’s Staff,

Other things being equal

by Harper’s Staff,

The strategist dreams . . .

by David Suter,

Spiritual obedience

by Peter Marin,

The transcendental game of follow the leader

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by Linda Mizejewski,

Parked in the country

by Linda Mizejewski,

Going home

by Linda Mizejewski,

Going West

by David R. Slavitt,

The unlettered university

by John C. Sawhill,

Degrading the liberal arts on campus

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

Against bilingual education

by Tom Bethell,

Why Johnny can't speak English

Behind closed borders

by Penny Lernoux,

Paraguay's use of torture and repression

Lost horizon

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Intimations of immortality in California

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Humphrey Sutton,

Seasonal dodecahedron

by E.R. Galli,

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Graedo

by Patrick Lupinetti,

An eye for an eye

A King Tut Book of Etiquette

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

What to say and do while admiring a king’s ransom

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