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New and (maybe) improved

by Robert M. Kaus,

Designs for driving

by Robert M. Kaus,

Some hope for car consumers who want to buy American

Negligible literary anecdote no. 11

by John Morressy,

The shadow of the mole

by Ron Rosenbaum,

Two superpowers, three master spies, four false defectors, five schools of mole lore, and seven types of ambiguity

The life of Kennedy’s death

by Christopher Lasch,

How the mythology of JFK's assassination sustains the mythology of his career

Dunce of the month

by Harper’s Staff,

Dreams

by James S. Kunen,

Remembering the future

Beep, beep, you’re dead

by Schuyler Ingle,

Combat training with lasers and C-rations in the Mojave

The poet as insurance man

by Peter Brazeau,

Wallace Stevens as seen by his colleagues and friends

Reagan’s manifest destiny

by T.D. Allman,

The president is playing dominoes in Latin America and losing

Numbers

by S.C. (Samuel C.) Gwynne,

Adventures in the loan trade

Bosses

by James Raimes,

Cautionary tales for the modern employee

Inside Epcot Center

by P. J. O’Rourke,

Welcome to Tokyo Disneyland, where we sell the Japanese their fantasy of America. Have a nice day!

by Murray Sayle,

Good intentions

by David Owen,

The relentless rise of Anne Wexler

Politics

by Robert M. Kaus,

First, forget the issues

Quandaries

by Anthony F. De Palma,

State of anxiety

The worm’s eye view

by Adam Gopnik,

I was a slave to art

The neat stuff

by James Wolcott,

Dr. Armand Hammer’s medicine show

by Joseph Finder,

How to parlay one hour with Lenin into a capitalist empire

The numbers speaks for itself

by Mark Feinberg,

Lotto baloney

by Curt Suplee,

You're seven times more likely to be killed by lightning than to win a million in the state lottery

Warfare

by John Keegan,

The specter of conventional war

Do not read this!

by David Owen,

Rest in pieces

by David Owen,

Life was a feast. Now, how to dispose of the leftovers?

Say it ain’t so, Bjorn

by Michael Mewshaw,

The rotten world of professional tennis

The trouble with unions

by Robert M. Kaus,

Confronting the Democrats' biggest dilemma

Appetites

by Timothy F. Bannon,

The birth of pronation

Who killed Winter Kills?

by Richard Condon,

The case of the vanishing movie involving a murder, a forty-year drug sentence, Liz Taylor's repossessed fur coat, and possible skulduggery at the highest levels. The author of a satirical fantasy reflects on life imitating art

The tragedy of Leonard Bernstein

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