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Earl Shorris was a regular contributor to Harper’s Magazine from 1972 until his death in 2012. In 1995, he founded the Clemente Course for the Humanities, a ten-month-long academic program…

On the Uses of a Liberal Education

by Mark Edmundson, Earl Shorris,

II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor

I. As lite entertainment for bored college students

by Mark Edmundson,

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Art by Majima Ryoichi,

Aboard the Gravy Train

by Matt Bivens,

In Kazakhstan, the farce that is U.S. foreign aid

The Inhumanity of the Animal People

by Joy Williams,

Do creatures have the same rights that we do?

Spinning the Poor into Gold

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

How corporations seek to profit from welfare reform

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Where the wild things are

Somehow form a family

II. Classical music in twilight

Variations on a descending theme

I. Pop music in the shadow of irony

The doctor is not in

Prophets and losses

Where have you gone, Louis Sullivan? Will America recover from its fifty-year bout of Europhilia?

The long jolt of public opinion

God bless this rodeo

Hockey Nights

The Wreck of Time

Before the temple of fire

Sacrebleu! The jazz era is up for sale

Hasta la vista, Fidel

Giving Women the Business

Biocapitalism

Unmasking the court of no appeal

At your disposal

Intrigues

Fascism à la mode

Driving Mr. Albert

Mean Season