Easy Chair | Harper's Magazine - Part 7
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Obama’s Jews

Last May, as he claimed the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama was ahead among Jewish voters 2 to 1. Yet, according to cable-and-blog wisdom, that was a serious problem for him.…

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Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

Fulfilling your duties, where does that land you? Into jealousy, upsets, persecution. Is that the way to get on? Butter people up, good God, butter them up, watch the great,…

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Requiem for the Private Word

Most people in America love playing with tape recorders. —Chairman Mao, incredulous at the fall of Richard Nixon Robert Gensburg has practiced law in my community since 1967.  His wife,…

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Democracy and Deference

I blame my parents, which is trite but traditional. Six years after stepping onto the troubled shore of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s America they had a son and promptly began to fill…

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Why I Pay My Taxes

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was…

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