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Power Failure

The unseen obstacles to progressive reform

Lord of the Files

By Alexander Zinoviev, from Homo Sovieticus, a novel that was originally published in 1985 and is included in Boredom, an anthology that was published in January by M.I.T. Press and…

Highly Ineffective People

From the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, published in 1944 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. The manual, which was declassified in 2008, was intended for distribution to citizens of enemy…

In Regulation Nation

by David Graeber,

By David Graeber, from The Utopia of Rules, published last month by Melville House. Graeber is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. His most recent article for Harper’s…

Our home and native brand

by Harper’s Staff,

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

by Tina Rosenberg,

How Poland's nomenklatura learned to love capitalism

Can the Russians Reform?

by John Kenneth Galbraith,

The Soviet economy: prospects for change

Asphalt jungle

by Harper’s Staff,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Witnesses of the new order

by Tom Bethell,

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Power Failure

Lord of the Files

Highly Ineffective People

In Regulation Nation

Our home and native brand

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Can the Russians Reform?

Asphalt jungle

Letters

Witnesses of the new order

The public use of private interest

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Power Failure

Lord of the Files

Highly Ineffective People

In Regulation Nation

Our home and native brand

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Can the Russians Reform?

Asphalt jungle

Letters

Witnesses of the new order

The public use of private interest

May 1977

Debug