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Publisher’s Note

North-side Gods

by John R. MacArthur,

“Now is the time that tries the souls of Chicago Cubs fans everywhere.”

Clinton Caution

by John R. MacArthur,

"As far as substance, there was none -- just the usual Clinton caution and excruciatingly scripted bromides designed to offend as few people as possible."

The Ignorance of Journalists

by John R. MacArthur,

"The fix was in from the beginning, despite the revolt. Fast-track authority was never in danger."

Nonsense Brokers

by John R. MacArthur,

“Rep. Kathleen Rice last week reversed her opposition to fast-track the TPP. If history repeats itself she won’t be the only member of Congress to betray her working class and labor-union supporters.”

The Grind and the Gun

by John R. MacArthur,

"Attributing white-on-black violence entirely to racism misses the larger problems that poorer people face in this country. They suffer a thousand cuts that never get talked about, except when the victims bleed to death."

The Mayor and the Machine

by John R. MacArthur,

“Emanuel's position in the local party is insecure because he was not raised in the machine, or, for that matter, in a working-class city neighborhood.”

French Fiction Reveals Faux Democracy

by John R. MacArthur,

"Houellebecq, who is neither radical nor left-wing, understands perfectly France's political elites and its duped and disempowered electorate."

America’s Peculiar Political Correctness

by John R. MacArthur,

“I don’t see how you can properly cover a news story without showing the reader or viewer one of the key elements that made the story a story ”

Amid redactions and monotony, reckless CIA cruelty

by John R. MacArthur,

"The massive prose work does possess a certain irony and subtlety, as well as a sickening urgency, which make it worth reading as a book, rather than as an accumulation of outrageous facts."

The New York Times tries to marginalize the left

by John R. MacArthur,

“Nowhere did the Times define ‘the left’ or what might excite its opposition to Clinton. Our imaginations are allowed to run wild: Is ‘the left’ a terrorist organization? A part of the outfield? Or is it just not worth mentioning?”

A purposeless, symbolic war

by John R. MacArthur,

“Since World War II, very little that could be called genuinely humanitarian has resulted from American military intervention—not in Korea, certainly not in Vietnam, and not in Panama, Afghanistan, or the two Iraq wars and Libya.”

Is France in peril? Au contraire!

by John R. MacArthur,

"To compete with tight-fisted, export-driven Germany, France needs to devalue its currency, but it can’t, since it doesn’t have its own currency."

A Jerusalem Education

by John R. MacArthur,

“It gradually dawned on me that since 1967, I had made very little progress in seeing Arabs or empathizing with their plight.”

In Praise of Michael Hastings

by John R. MacArthur,

The Last Magazine exposes the lies and obfuscations of the march to war in Iraq

Stick a Fork in Fund-raising Banquets

by John R. MacArthur,

The false virtue of the fund-raiser

More Irksome Than a California Quake

by John R. MacArthur,

The taming of a once-wild state

The Left Must Derail Hillary Clinton in the Primaries

by John R. MacArthur,

A straightforward strategy for reversing the rightward trend of both parties

Say No to Dubai on the Hudson

by John R. MacArthur,

“Pharaonic exclusion is their motto; contempt for human scale and ordinary people their raison d’être.”

In Praise of Shakespeare’s Comedies

by John R. MacArthur,

Rethinking the best way to introduce Shakespeare to the young

The “Paper of Record” Gets it Wrong on André Schiffrin

by John R. MacArthur,

A Times obituary misrepresents the career of a distinguished publisher

Some Balance on Press Snoops, Please

by John R. MacArthur,

Why more attention should have been paid to terminal tapping at Bloomberg News

Racism Revisited in the New York City Mayoral Race

by John R. MacArthur,

Why are opponents of Bill de Blasio invoking the David Dinkins era?

Hitler and Other Syria-debate Low Points

by John R. MacArthur,

When the facts won’t convince the public to march into battle, politicians ramp up the rhetoric

Thomas the Tank Engine

by John R. MacArthur,

The foolish free-trade sophistry of Thomas Friedman

The Party of Wilson, Wiretaps, and War

by John R. MacArthur,

On the problems with Democratic interventions

In Boston, An Exercise in Intimidation

by John R. MacArthur,

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, why did so few people protest the decision to lock down parts of the city?

No Reward for Being Right on Iraq

by John R. MacArthur,

Where were the voices of conscience on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War?

Obama’s Real Political Program

by John R. MacArthur,

Vague talk about the middle class, and plenty for big business

Introducing the April issue of Harper’s Magazine

by John R. MacArthur,

On John le Carré and the relaunch of the Folio section

The State of Fostoria, Ohio

by John R. MacArthur,

A short documentary about a town whose Autolite spark-plug plant moved most of its jobs to Mexico in the wake of NAFTA.

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