John R. MacArthur | Harper's Magazine - Part 8
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John R. MacArthur

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Trading on Resentment

“The ‘free trade’ policies championed by US leaders from Reagan to Obama, most definitely including the Clintons, have produced many victims.”
by , on October 9, 2018
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The Illusion Train

“French ‘solidarity’ was looking decidedly less solid than it had the previous day.”
by , on August 21, 2018
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The Enemy Within

“Obama [and nostalgia for him] is still running the risk of suffocating reform and encouraging the reelection of Donald Trump.”
by , on July 11, 2018
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Important Details

"The art of the detail is in decline, because the pitiless World Wide Web rejects in-depth reporting in favor of the tweet."
by , on June 8, 2018
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Why I’ll Miss My Friend Tom Wolfe

"Wolfe was always the arch opponent of orthodoxy in all its forms."
by , on May 16, 2018
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The Comedy

"France has lowered herself to the status of a stamp or seal in order to 'reassure' the American Establishment that its loutish leader isn't entirely mad."
by , on May 14, 2018
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Humanitarian Wars

"I’ve often found myself doing battle with 'humanitarian' propaganda, sometimes promoted by nice, respectable people who strongly support military interventions, justified (in their view) because they would save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives."
by , on April 12, 2018