Podcast

Click Here to Kill

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Brian Merchant on December 31, 2019

Hiring a hitman online isn’t just speculative fiction

Body Language

By Harper’s Magazine, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, on December 24, 2019

More than the right word: on telling a genderqueer narrative

More Than Thankful

By Harper’s Magazine, on November 27, 2019

Farm to table: the history of food activism in the United States

Men at Work

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Barrett Swanson on November 20, 2019

Beyond a primal scream: the problems with trying to solve the problem of toxic masculinity

Impeachment and the Mueller Report

By Harper’s Magazine, on November 13, 2019

A panel of legal experts, lawmakers, and historians attempt to decode the enigmatic (or just unsatisfying) investigation, and discuss impeachment

Left of Europe

By Violet Lucca, Ashley Smith, on November 6, 2019

Untangling the Brexit question with a panel of activists and leftists from around the United Kingdom

To Serve Is to Rule

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 30, 2019

The not-so-good ol’ days: considering the WASP supremacy

The K–12 Takeover

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 23, 2019

The tipping point: how charters and the Trump Administration are failing children

Conditions of Impeachment

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 9, 2019

As part of a forum on the Constitution, five lawmakers and legal scholars consider probable cause for using the Fourteenth Amendment

Good Bad Bad Good

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 2, 2019

Tube time: taking apart the Golden Age of TV

The Wood Chipper

By Harper’s Magazine, on September 24, 2019

The inner workings of the N.F.L. Scouting Combine and the uncertain future of the game

Common Ground

By Harper’s Magazine, on September 13, 2019

Feet of clay: on the troublesome uses of archeology, past and present

The Black Axe

By Harper’s Magazine, on August 28, 2019

Everywhere and nowhere: tracing the evolution of a notorious Nigerian fraternity

The Family

By Harper’s Magazine, on August 15, 2019

Brought into the light: Jeff Sharlet and Jesse Moss discuss the secretive, Washington-based religious organization that is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries

The Call of the Drums

By Harper’s Magazine, on August 8, 2019

Where the barbarians are: the Hungarian right’s obsession with a false history

The Last Frontier

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 31, 2019

Range life: the not entirely romantic existence of homesteaders in the San Luis Valley

A Play with No End

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 25, 2019

Force majeure: What the American left could learn from the Gilets Jaunes

The Hardest Music and the Softest Animals

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 12, 2019

Nell Zink discusses her latest novel, zines, and musical reverberation

“Just Keep Going North”

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 3, 2019

Theories on the frontier: the process, politics, and ethics that arise while covering the U.S.-Mexico border

Stonewall at Fifty

By Harper’s Magazine, on June 26, 2019

Three writers and activists consider the meanings of Pride

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Harper’s Magazine, on June 5, 2019

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

The Abortion Bans

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 23, 2019

A discussion about the recent spate of legislation that seems to threaten a woman’s right to choose

Downstream

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 15, 2019

Rag-and-bone: the resale of items trashed in the United States and shipped to Haiti says a lot about history, politics, and drugs

Humanitarian Wars?

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 7, 2019

Olive branch as a club: a former president of Doctors Without Borders outlines how the justifications for war have evolved

The Truce

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 1, 2019

Bad neighbor policy: Did the United States’ influence over El Salvador countermand a solution to gang violence?

Lost at Sea

By Harper’s Magazine, on April 23, 2019

Time and tide: among the residents of abandoned boats just outside Sausalito

The Storyteller

By Harper’s Magazine, on April 15, 2019

Pierre Jarawan explores the evolution of identity and home in his debut novel

Destined for Export

By Harper’s Magazine, on April 8, 2019

Family history: the phenomenon of widespread, wrongful international adoption in Guatemala, and its long shadow

Like This or Die

By Harper’s Magazine, on March 25, 2019

What gets lost in the age of the algorithm

Not Mere Projection

By Harper’s Magazine, on March 18, 2019

Reconsidering the work of the notoriously elusive Cy Twombly

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