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Archive: 2008

Breathing Is for Closers

From a lawsuit filed in January by Chad Hudgens against Joshua Christopherson and Prosper, Inc., a motivational-coaching firm based in Utah. Hudgens, who worked at Prosper as a salesman under…

Trailer of Tears

by Leonard Samuel Shoen,

From a December 16, 1976, management bulletin by L. S. Shoen, founder of U-Haul and company chairman from 1945 to 1986. The document was obtained by the Los Angeles Times,…

Death be not green

by Mary Ellen Gabias,

Sweeping through

Art by Yoon Lee,

The stoned leading the blind

by Jason Cossman,

Management

Art by James Rieck,

Generation why?

by Harper’s Staff,

Our Phony Economy

by Jonathan Rowe,

From testimony delivered March 12 before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce. Rowe is codirector of West Marin Commons, a community-organizing group, in California.…

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Democracy and Deference

by Mark Slouka,

I blame my parents, which is trite but traditional. Six years after stepping onto the troubled shore of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s America they had a son and promptly began to fill…

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (detail)

by Harper’s Staff,

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

A (k)night at the opera

by Harper’s Staff,

Irrational man

by Paul Reitter,

Gershom Scholem's decisive years

The fog of Abu Ghraib

by W.J.T. (W.J. Thomas) Mitchell,

Errol Morris and the "bad apples"

New books

by John Leonard,

The next thing

by Steven Millhauser,

Gardens of stone

by Lena Herzog,

Untitled

by Lena Herzog,

The battle of ideas

by Patrick Symmes,

Searching for the opposition in post-Fidel Cuba

My Lobby, Myself

by Ken Silverstein,

How John McCain’s hypocrisy is laundered as reform

Numbers Racket

by Kevin Phillips,

Why the economy is worse than we know

Faustian Economics

by Wendell Berry,

Hell hath no limits

Cigarette

by Sarah Pickering,

Grid

Art by Nicholas Evans-Cato,

The death of Lazarus Averbuch

by Aleksandar Hemon,

Search and destroy

by Harper’s Staff,

A conspiracy of dunces

by Harper’s Staff,

My metaphor weighs tons

by William Davies King,

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