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“When I traveled from Paris to Prague in 1983, I deliberately took the train because I wanted to pass through the Iron Curtain overland, to feel the fear of being…

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“The sordid self-interest that warps the public sphere in the United States didn’t begin with Trump in the White House.” Read More

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Such fervent admiration for a man who openly traffics in swindles and lies—where did it come from? Read More

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Democracy by distance? Read More

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“The reputation of the Times as a left-wing newspaper has led it to make some absurd efforts in justifying its new status as a progressive beacon. . . .”

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“Why wait to read reports that appeared on the website of France’s leading daily the previous day?” Read More

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“Surprised by the assignment, I replied that I usually investigated a story before I arrived at a conclusion.” Read More

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Will the candidate with the best chance to beat Trump be on the ballot at the polls in November? Good heavens! It seems that there are some doubts.

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“People living in Canada or Britain are lucky in that they aren’t stuck in a one-sided political system whose starting point is the celebration of the “entrepreneur” and his victories…

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“What’s almost never discussed by the ‘experts’ on television is the political parties’ real raison d’être and their obsession with maintaining their grip on power and with unabashed cronyism.”

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“I was immediately struck by the fundamental difference between the ‘seventh art’ and literature.”

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Harper’s Magazine holds live events in New York City that are tied to newly published books. The former location, Book Culture on Columbus, which our publisher co-owned, has closed. However, these…

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“Making fun of the negative interest rates offered by some European banks, Trump sniggered, ‘Give me some of that…I want some of that money.’ In my corner of the hall, around table 121, several merry-faced brokers and accountants applauded.”

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“In her quest for her party’s nomination, has Warren concluded a non-aggression pact with Hillary Clinton?”

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“In my experience, the media’s unquestioning conformity is fostered by the promise of reward—prestige, increased access, career advancement.” Read More

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“Nor would I leave to Emmanuel Macron and Mark Zuckerberg, both of them politicians first and foremost, the job of regulating anything that has to do with words or language.”

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“Without conceding that there’s anything at all logical in Donald Trump’s fatuous rhetoric, we can nevertheless acknowledge that America is in fact sick, that in its inmost depths it is…

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“What is it to be French? The question has always struck me as unhealthy and manipulative . . . ” Read More

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“The Times has used every opportunity to present Sanders as an obstacle to Trump’s eventual overthrow.”

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“It appeared that everyone wanted to talk to a journalist from the United States with no visible axe to grind.”

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“Whatever the current political momentum may be, what’s astonishing is that the oppression of less powerful people addressed not by a writer on the left but by the ‘reactionary’ Michel…

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“I can see nothing but a missed opportunity to inform the broader public about economic realities in our increasingly stratified country.”

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The crisis in France is gnawing away at what’s left of the lower classes’ pride and possessions

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“The Democratic Party is best understood as an assemblage of baronies, the three most important of which—California, New York, and Illinois—dole out the most patronage and political favors in return for filling the party’s coffers and guaranteeing the reelection of its most cherished adherents.”

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“I recommend neither the assertions of journalists and pollsters nor big headlines about terror attacks, murders, or caravans of desperate people as a basis for predicting the outcome of the midterm elections.”

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

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“French ‘solidarity’ was looking decidedly less solid than it had the previous day.”

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“Obama [and nostalgia for him] is still running the risk of suffocating reform and encouraging the reelection of Donald Trump.”

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