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Archive: 1979

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by Harper’s Staff,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

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Art by Mimi Korach,

Light switches

by E.R. Galli,

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Winding up

by Robert H. Zieger,

Winter's child plays the summer game

Snake Oil

by David Sanford,

On failing to go to the medicine show

In our time

by Harper’s Staff,

The evolution of the species

by Tom Wolfe,

No. 1

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

History enhanced

by Frances Taliaferro,

Lives in the present perfect

Literary vogues

by Bryan F. Griffin,

Getting Cheever while he's hot

The traffic in words

by Hugh Kenner,

No place for the avant-garde

Bound to sell

by Harper’s Staff,

Pretenders to power

by Henry Fairlie,

The pen is not the sword

Willie and Wade

by Donald Barthelme,

Footnotes

by Ronald Jager,

The end of walking

Other things being equal

by Harper’s Staff,

A fireside chat

by David Suter,

All the pope’s men

by Cullen Murphy,

Putting Aquinas together again

The gas price fixers

by Tom Bethell,

Washington designed, built, and ran an energy crisis

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by David Huddle,

Bill Spraker’s store, or the day Geronimo couldn’t find the scoop

by David Huddle,

What Pig Clemons told my mother

by David Huddle,

Hapless Canada

The Anglophones are their own worst enemy

Inflation’s Winners

by Nicholas Von Hoffman,

If you are in debt, relax

A juggernaut of words

by Lewis H. Lapham,

In the empty theater of ideas

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Lorin Fine,

Free association

by E.R. Galli,

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