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Remembering Lewis H. Lapham

This month’s Letters section is devoted to remembrances of Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. I first…

by Christopher Carroll, Ann K. Gollin, Marilynne Robinson, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Annie Dillard, Roger D. Hodge, Ellen Rosenbush, Jennifer Szalai, Sheila Wolfe, Gerald Marzorati, Cynthia Ozick, Garret Keizer, Ralph Nader, Colin Harrison, Francine Prose, Curtis White, Gemma Sieff, Robert Whitcomb, Jack Hitt, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Adam Iscoe, Will Augerot, Matthew Stevenson, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

[Political Asylum]

The Electoral Battle Between Corporationism and Empiricism

Obama’s data-driven approach may decide today’s race—and determine the future of the G.O.P.

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

Wall Street Places Its Election Bets

How do the two presidential candidates stack up in the eyes of America's investment class?

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

On Booing God at a Political Convention

For political hacks at modern party conventions, the answer to the Reagan Question—Are you better off than you were four years ago?—should be knee-jerk, no matter the party, no matter…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

Michelle Obama and the DeGeneres Vote

For the last four years, it has been painful watching Democrats struggle to coordinate a single message amid the millions of tiny medialets misting around us. Typically, watching a Democrat…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

Spend, Baby, Spend

Now that the Republican Convention has ended, can we move on to the one bedrock but unspoken truth underlying all the accepted distortions of closed factories and $716 billion cuts…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

Obama Derangement Syndrome

The real sea change in Wednesday night’s convention lay not in the depth and reach of the deliberate distortions, which were admittedly breathtaking. Rather, it was that all the Republicans…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

In Search of the RNC Dissenters

At first I thought the quote of the day had to go to John Boehner, who explained to a gathering of Republicans at breakfast the controversy of his name: “People…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

Reading the Bay Leaves

I had a talk with Bay Buchanan on the convention floor Monday. Remember her? She’s Pat Buchanan’s sister. Back in the 1990s, when Pat was leading the torch-and-pitchfork crowd, she…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

A Troubling Chant on the Convention Floor

We’ve received an overwhelming response to this blog post, which was written from the convention floor on Tuesday. As the post states, I saw delegates chanting “U.S.A.!” and silencing Puerto…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

We Can’t Be Zeros

There is talk at the convention about the lack of a Republican minority vote, and of course almost no visible minorities can be found on the floor, which appears instead…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

Lethargy in the T. Bay

The projection of SWAT power here in Tampa is overwhelming. Local estimates put the security collective at well over 1,000 people, meaning there is one officer for every two delegates…

by Jack Hitt,

[Political Asylum]

The BadTV Wing of the Republican Party

August 27, 9 a.m. Coming in from the Tampa airport, a giant billboard greets everyone as they pull out onto I-275: don’t believe the liberal media. And the chatter in…

by Jack Hitt,

Is Sarah Palin porn?

by Jack Hitt,

7. The Marketplace of Ideas

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” On Thursday, June 6, 2002, FBI agent Coleen Rowley testified before Congress that 9/11 might have been avoided had her agency been better organized to…

by Jack Hitt,

Mighty White of You

Racial preferences color America’s oldest skulls and bones

by Jack Hitt,

A gospel according to the earth

Sown by science, a new eco-faith takes root

by Jack Hitt,

Wyatt Earp

A brief history of an icon

by Jack Hitt,

The parable of Tombstone

A timeline

by Jack Hitt,

Big Brother at the OK Corral

A frontier fable of gun control and federal justice

by Wyatt Earp, Ike Clanton,Edited by Jack Hitt,

A frontier fable of gun control and federal justice

by Wyatt Earp,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Dinosaur dreams

Reading the bones of America's psychic mascot

by Jack Hitt,

Making the case for racial reparations: does America owe a debt to the descendants of its slaves?

Edited by Jack Hitt,

Making the Case for Racial Reparations

Does America owe a debt to the descendants of its slaves?

Edited by Jack Hitt,

This is Your Bill of Rights, on Drugs

How we the people became the enemy

by Graham Boyd, Jack Hitt,

Isn’t it romantic?

by Jack Hitt,

Our machines, ourselves

by James Bailey, Jaron Lanier, Charles Siebert,Edited by Jack Hitt,

On earth as it is in heaven

Field trips with the apostles of creation science

by Jack Hitt,

Toxic dreams

A California town finds meaning in an acid pit

by Jack Hitt,

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End game

by Jack Hitt,

A fountain pen, an empty page, and thou

by Lynda Barry, Julie Garwood, Mark Leyner,Edited by Jack Hitt,

A Fountain Pen, an Empty Page, and Thou

February brings with it the romantic chance of Valentine’s Day, but who remembers how to write a love letter? The form was never an easy one, not even for poets,…

by Lynda Barry, Mark Leyner, V.K. McCarty, A. R. Gurney, Julie Garwood,Moderated By Jack Hitt,

Is there a doctrine in the house?

by Aryeh Neier,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Is there a doctrine in the house?

Edited by Jack Hitt,

New rules about sex on campus

by William Kerrigan,Edited by Jack Hitt,

New rules about sex on campus

Edited by Jack Hitt,

Does the White House want a domestic policy?

Edited by Jack Hitt,

Sacred or for sale?

by Jack Hitt,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

Whatever became of the public square?

by Jack Hitt,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

Is computer hacking a crime?

by Jack Hitt, Paul Tough,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

What’s wrong with the Democrats?

by Jack Hitt,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

In Pursuit of Pure Horror

by Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Suzy McKee Charnas, Gahan Wilson,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Who needs the great works?

by E.D. (Eric Donald) Hirsch, Roger Shattuck,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Lay pipe, add heat, get laughs!

Edited by Jack Hitt,

Lay pipe, add heat, get laughs!

Edited by Jack Hitt,

Plotting the perfect murder

Edited by Jack Hitt,

Plotting the perfect murder

by Donald E. Westlake,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Just like us?

by Ingrid Newkirk,Edited by Jack Hitt,

And now, for something cheap. What’s coming up and going down at PBS

by Jack Hitt,

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