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Paul Krugman on Barry C. Lynn and the Effect of Monopolies on Labor

“I realized that to move, I’d need the approval of some grand poobah.”

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Typhoon tears, undiplomatic leg-crossing, and a fashionable Canadian macaque

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Syria’s communications blackout, North Korea’s unicorn lair, and Iceland’s ram-penis economy

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William Styron on the Literary Appreciations of Farmers’ Daughters, 1972

“These rich farm bastards . . . support fat institutions of learning like the University of Iowa, which should be able to pay a decent fee for writers to come and titillate the same farmers’ daughters . . .”

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Mentions

Controversy

On the matter of conscious v. conscience in Prince's
"I Would Die 4 U"

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No Comment

D For Deception

Tina Rosenberg on the British spy novelist who hoodwinked Hitler

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Official Business

A Discussion with John R. MacArthur and Thomas Frank on the Obama Mandate and the Future of the Left

Join Harper’s publisher John R. MacArthur and columnist Thomas Frank at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Tuesday, December 4

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“There has never been a battle,” said a general of the Free Syrian Army, “with this much booty.”

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Mentions

Ariel Kaminer on Mark Crispin Miller and the Drive for Electoral Integrity

Mark Crispin Miller's August 2005 cover story for Harper's, "None Dare Call It Stolen," earns a mention in the New York Times.

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Harper's Finest

Bob Shacochis’s “Written in the Big Wind” (1991)

Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Turmoil in Gaza, Republican hand-wringing, and a narcoleptic goat named Voldemort

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The Anti-Economist

Oliver Stone’s Alternate States

On Stone’s compulsive—and necessary—historical revisions

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Six Questions

Unruly Voices: Essays On Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

Mark Kingwell on fugitive democracy, the cultural role of philosophers, and hockey-borne Canadian anti-intellectualism

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The U.S. presidential election, Sandy sex, and the super perv powder of an antivirus pioneer

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The Anti-Economist

The Coming Fiscal Bluffs

Will President Obama stand tough in budget negotiations?

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Political Asylum

Obama’s Bland Bargain

A dispassionate president disavows the liberal idea.

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Political Asylum

Angry White Men

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

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Six Questions

Let Me Clear My Throat

Elena Passarello on the animal appeal of the human voice and the art of the lyrical essay

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Political Asylum

The Electoral Battle Between Corporationism and Empiricism

Obama’s data-driven approach may decide today’s race—and determine the future of the G.O.P.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Americans prepare to choose a president, a blindfolded Egyptian child chooses a pope, and Siri refuses to help you find a prostitute in China.

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Official Business

On Victoria Collier’s “How to Rig an Election”

Our November cover feature is now available to all readers. You can find and share it here.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“San Diego is gorgeous this time of year!” tweeted Cindy McCain. “I’m in heaven!”

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Diary

Love in the House

On fiction, reality television, and why crushes thrive in small spaces.

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Political Asylum

Is the Media Walking Us Into Another War? (Part II)

A New York Times op-ed writer nods his head along with Mitt Romney.

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Political Asylum

Welcome to Easter Island

On a narrowly defined, narrowly argued foreign policy presidential debate.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“A paleoanthropologist determined that prehistoric man ate pandas, researchers disproved the Five-Second Rule, and a cat discovered 2,000-year-old catacombs in Rome.”

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