1979 | Page 3 of 12 | Harper's Magazine

Rags & bones

by Nadine Gordimer,

A short story

The Survivors Club

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Rules and regulations

Khrushchev in retirement

Edited by Helen Gredd,

Reflections

by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev,Translated by Helen Gredd,

Untitled

by Helen Gredd,

Raymond and Ann

by David Budbill,

The civil-service Giants

by Allan B. Jacobs,

A story of baseball and bureaucracy

In our time

by Harper’s Staff,

The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus

by Tom Wolfe,

Science, technology and the human prospect

by Philip Handler,

In praise of science

Science, technology and the human prospect

by Simon Ramo,

Can science turn a profit?

Science, technology and the human prospect

by Eric Hoffer,

Beware the intellectual

Science, technology and the human prospect

by Alasdair MacIntyre,

Power industry morality

Science, technology and the human prospect

by George Basalla,

The fallacy of the energy-civilization equation

Science, technology and the human prospect

by Chauncey Starr,

The growth of limits

A report from the Edison Electric Institute symposium

by Harper’s Staff,

Fooling with the budget

by Tom Bethell,

How Congress causes inflation

In the logging woods

by Stan Hager,

Proud fatalism and preventable death

Oil in abundance

by Jude Wanniski,

Without taxes or synthetic fuel

The meltdown that didn’t happen

by Howard Morland,

Optimism and inertia at Three Mile Island

The death of kings

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Prose translations from the poetry of despair

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Art by Charles White, Kiyoshi Kanai,

Stereo components

by E.R. Galli,

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Going nowhere fast

by Lawrence Shainberg,

The rat race, more or less

Zahedi’s Affairs

by Nicholas Burnett,

The shah’s receiving line in Washington

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Ineffable pleasures

by Jeffrey Burke,

The variety of short stories

Styron’s heavy freight

by John W. Aldridge,

Sex, guilt, and the Holocaust too

Archive: 1979

Rags & bones

The Survivors Club

Khrushchev in retirement

Reflections

Untitled

Raymond and Ann

The civil-service Giants

In our time

The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

A report from the Edison Electric Institute symposium

Fooling with the budget

In the logging woods

Oil in abundance

The meltdown that didn’t happen

The death of kings

Letters

Untitled

Stereo components

American miscellany

Going nowhere fast

Zahedi’s Affairs

In print

Ineffable pleasures

Styron’s heavy freight

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Archive: 1979

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Rags & bones

The Survivors Club

Khrushchev in retirement

Reflections

Untitled

Raymond and Ann

The civil-service Giants

In our time

The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

Science, technology and the human prospect

A report from the Edison Electric Institute symposium

Fooling with the budget

In the logging woods

Oil in abundance

The meltdown that didn’t happen

The death of kings

Letters

Untitled

Stereo components

American miscellany

Going nowhere fast

Zahedi’s Affairs

In print

Ineffable pleasures

Styron’s heavy freight

October 1979

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