Kevin Baker | Harper's Magazine

From this author

21st Century Limited

By Kevin Baker,

We start in darkness. After fighting our way through the dingy, low-ceilinged, crowded waiting room that serves as New York City’s current Pennsylvania Station, we pull out through a graffitied…

The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe

By Kevin Baker, on June 26, 2014

From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” Read More

The Near-Death of Grand Central Terminal

By Kevin Baker, on June 19, 2014

And how it foretold the 2008 financial crisis Read More

Ayn Rand’s Rapture of the Rails

By Kevin Baker, on June 16, 2014

The train deaths of Atlas Shrugged Read More

Obama’s Bland Bargain

By Kevin Baker, on November 9, 2012

A dispassionate president disavows the liberal idea. Read More

Angry White Men

By Kevin Baker, on November 8, 2012

Can the G.O.P. genuinely change its attitude toward minorities and women? Read More

The Withdrawal of the American Establishment

By Kevin Baker, on November 5, 2012

An election-eve elegy for the country’s former guardians of sanity Read More