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Attitudes

Losing is for losers

by Michael Kinahan,

The quivering upper lip

by Theodore Dalrymple,

Curtain calls

by Edward Hoagland,

The fever called "living" is conquered at last

Abolish Stock Options

by Barry C. Lynn,

The joke is gone

by Giles Coren, Mia Aimaro Ogden, Joanna Duckworth,

Requiem for the Private Word

by Garret Keizer,

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,…

A great amnesia

by Marilynne Robinson,

Foul ball

by Harper’s Staff,

Heroes

From complaints submitted by four San Diego firemen who were ordered to drive a fire truck in a July 21 gay-pride parade. While I was sitting there waiting for the…

Variations on a mirage

by Edward Luttwak,

The war on Christmas

by Jared Ruddy,