“I realized that to move, I’d need the approval of some grand poobah.”
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Typhoon tears, undiplomatic leg-crossing, and a fashionable Canadian macaque
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Syria’s communications blackout, North Korea’s unicorn lair, and Iceland’s ram-penis economy
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“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 . . .”
Read MoreJoin 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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“There has never been a battle,” said a general of the Free Syrian Army, “with this much booty.”
Read MoreMark 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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Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes
Read MoreTurmoil in Gaza, Republican hand-wringing, and a narcoleptic goat named Voldemort
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Mark Kingwell on fugitive democracy, the cultural role of philosophers, and hockey-borne Canadian anti-intellectualism
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The U.S. presidential election, Sandy sex, and the super perv powder of an antivirus pioneer
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Elena Passarello on the animal appeal of the human voice and the art of the lyrical essay
Read MoreObama’s data-driven approach may decide today’s race—and determine the future of the G.O.P.
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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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An election-eve elegy for the country’s former guardians of sanity
Read More"Why I'm a Pacifist" gets a lengthy assessment in the New York Times Book Review.
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“San Diego is gorgeous this time of year!” tweeted Cindy McCain. “I’m in heaven!”
Read MoreA New York Times op-ed writer nods his head along with Mitt Romney.
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On a narrowly defined, narrowly argued foreign policy presidential debate.
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“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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