Readings Archives

From Medical World News, February 13. A public meeting called by the doctors of Congresbury, England (a village near Bristol), has resulted in a vote that lethal doses of morphine…

“Commence foreign policy!”

by Harper’s Staff,

Congressional metaphysics

by Peter L. Benson, Dorothy Lowe Williams,

Carter

by Jimmy Carter, Erik R. (Erik Roswell) Peterson,

A Mideast prescription

Those who are not moderates we will make moderates

by Harper’s Staff,

Central America, chapter and verse

by Harper’s Staff,

What do we mean when we talk about irony?

by Wayne C. Booth,

Love among the geisha

by Liza Crihfield Dalby,

The third voice

by William Ferguson,

The media’s media

by Harper’s Staff,

Trickle down

by Stephen J. (Stephen Jay) Rose,Art by Kathryn Shagas, Dennis Livingston,

Bowdlerizing the Saturday cartoon

by Walter Karp,

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

From the Archive

Got it! Thanks for signing up!

Oldenburg’s El Salvador

A small paradise

Re-editing history

Lines for translation into any language

A nuclear fence for Israel

Social science

Watergate autobiography

Dress for success in court

The black box mentality

Borges

On the Sabbath

The geography of military spending

The censor at work

The future of war

Readings

Political Stability, 1948-1978

Reagangates, 1981-1984

Higher education’s low yield

Free Will and the Bomb

“Commence foreign policy!”

Congressional metaphysics

Carter

Those who are not moderates we will make moderates

Central America, chapter and verse

What do we mean when we talk about irony?

Love among the geisha

The third voice

The media’s media

Trickle down

Bowdlerizing the Saturday cartoon

May 1984

Debug