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The yellow peril and the red-haired devils

by Murray Sayle,

Negligible literary anecdotes no. 7

Closets of power

As a high government official and a homosexual, Dan Bradley led a double life that is common among congressmen, White House aides, and others in the political world. Here is his story, and theirs.

Revenge

by Alexander Theroux,

Hogwash

by Stephen Chapman,

The farmer on the dole

Agenda

by Robert M. Kaus,

Jobs for everyone

Negligible literary anecdotes no. 6

by John Morressy,

Too much justice

by Stuart Taylor,

Why it took fifteen months and millions of dollars not to send John Hinckley to prison

Supply-side economics goes to the zoo

by Jean-Claude Suarès,

It's dog eat dog among the animals in Cairo

Waiting for interferon

by Charles Fox,

What happens when people's hopes run ahead of the scientific method

Warfare

by William S. Lind,

Simple tanks would suffice

Baggage

by Patrick Brogan,

The $310 million paranoia subsidy

Negligible literary anecdotes no. 5

by Harper’s Staff,

Speedway

by Paul Fussell,

People don't just go to the Indianapolis 500 looking for gore

State-of-the-art panhandling

by David Owen,

Forget about charity--extracting $350 million requires a well-oiled fund-raising machine

Art versus collectibles

by Edward C. Banfield,

Why museums should be filled with fakes

Negligible literary anecdotes no. 4

by John Morressy,

You’re under arrest, Jane Everywoman! Why do radicals wear red suspenders?

by James Wolcott,

The Lord and the Intellectuals

by Christopher Hitchens,

They're too smart to believe in God, but they all believe in religion

Cheap seats

by Walter Shapiro,

How everyone but the rich got shut out of Congress

by Walter Shapiro,

Southern women

by Shirley Abbott,

For generations they've known sisterhood is powerful

Turn on, tune in, drop dead

by Ron Rosenbaum,

You haven't lived until you've died, say the apostles of drop-dead chic

The box rebellion

by Donald E. Westlake,

There'll be trouble if the good citizens of Belize don't get television--and soon

Ending the American protectorate of Europe

by Ronald Steel,

Why we should dissolve NATO and bring home our troops

Hard to digest

by Walter Goodman,

Is there more truth about communism in the Reader's Digest or the Nation?

All this and heaven too

by Steve Salerno,

When it come to Cardinals, we know all about the pomp and little about their circumstances

The legend of Hank Greenspun

by Joseph Dalton,

You can get it if you really want

by James Traub,

If racism is such a crushing burden on blacks, why have the West Indians done so well?

Writes of passage

by Jeffrey Burke,

The letter of recommendation as a social force and literary genre

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