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Harper’s index

The fair price of a barrel of oil, according to Osama bin Laden in 1998: $144 Date on which oil reached $144 per barrel: 7/2/08 Rank of this year’s economic…

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Fulfilling your duties, where does that land you? Into jealousy, upsets, persecution. Is that the way to get on? Butter people up, good God, butter them up, watch the great,…

Letters

The Elephant in the Room Might I suggest that, in the future, you align the titles of your articles with their actual content? July’s cover story, “High Noon for the…

The master’s voice

by William H. Gass,

Henry James's curriculum vitae

The mandarins

by Ken Silverstein,

American foreign policy, brought to you by China

Looks good on paper

by Tracie McMillan,

With welfare-to-work, presentation is everything

The Wrecking Crew

by Thomas Frank,

How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing

Pompeii

by Charles Bernstein,

From the June issue of Poetry. The rich men, they know about suffering That comes from natural things, the fate that Rich men say they can’t control, the swell of…

In dreams I kiss your hand, madam

by William Gaddis,

From the introduction to the catalogue of Art4.ru, a contemporary-art museum in Moscow owned by Igor Markin. The museum, in which Markin, a forty-one-year-old plastics magnate, invested $10 million, houses…

Discredit report

by Adam J. Szubin,

I got a Taliban, bro

by Harper’s Staff,

Everybody who’s anybody

by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover,

America, I’ve Given You All

by Allen Ginsberg,

Stupid brave

by Harper’s Staff,

D-Day Cup

Praise to the Swiss Federation

by Gabriel Gudding,

Canal building

Art by Huan Zhang,

Holler back

by Harper’s Staff,

Archive: 2008

Harper’s index

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

Letters

Untitled

Findings

Champagne for two

The master’s voice

New books

Jack

Hyrcania

Scipio and the bear

Brute soul

Loss of the Lisbon rhinoceros

The mandarins

Looks good on paper

The Wrecking Crew

Icy prospects #7

Pompeii

In dreams I kiss your hand, madam

No other conceivable option

Russian Arch

Discredit report

I got a Taliban, bro

Everybody who’s anybody

America, I’ve Given You All

Stupid brave

D-Day Cup

Praise to the Swiss Federation

Canal building

Holler back

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Archive: 2008

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Harper’s index

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

Letters

Untitled

Findings

Champagne for two

The master’s voice

New books

Jack

Hyrcania

Scipio and the bear

Brute soul

Loss of the Lisbon rhinoceros

The mandarins

Looks good on paper

The Wrecking Crew

Icy prospects #7

Pompeii

In dreams I kiss your hand, madam

No other conceivable option

Russian Arch

Discredit report

I got a Taliban, bro

Everybody who’s anybody

America, I’ve Given You All

Stupid brave

D-Day Cup

Praise to the Swiss Federation

Canal building

Holler back

September 2008

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