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Archive: 1981

Battleships

by E.R. Galli,

The bloody angle

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Reagan and the Civil War

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Castle rock

by Frederick Morgan,

Music without calculus

by Edmund Morris,

Donald Tovey's sound advice

Revisions

by Harper’s Staff,

Caspar W. Weinberger’s window of vulnerability

Drawn by Steve Brodner,

Ars politica

by Harper’s Staff,

French amnesia

by Frederick Brown,

The holy left

The microscopists

Drawn by David Suter,

Two views on abortion

The mind’s eye

by Harper’s Staff,

Buried honor

by Frances Taliaferro,

A world without dragons

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Trade power

Art by Michael Kidron, Ronald Segal,

Geography 105

by Harper’s Staff,

More facts! One sort of scholarship

by Kenneth Schuyler Lynn,

Breaking the line

by Hugh Kenner,

The bard of Newark's department stores

Invisible wars

by Gene Lyons,

The Pentagon plays with poison

The Americans

by Luigi Giorgio Barzini,

Why we baffle the Europeans

Return to sender

by William Rodgers,

Reclaiming the post office from big business

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

The four horsemen

by Conor Cruise O’Brien,

Heading for the apocalypse

Letter from abroad

by Harper’s Staff,

Envoi

by Harper’s Staff,

Answering the mail

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Robert Foster,

Masterpiece

by E.R. Galli,

An inflation libretto

by Nikolai Stevenson,

The refrain of paper money in Argentina

Spoils of defeat

by Robert W. Tucker,

Rationalizing Vietnam

Revisions

by Harper’s Staff,

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