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Weekly Review

A Concorde airplane crashed in Paris; two amateur Hungarian photographers snapped a picture of the doomed plane with flames shooting from its engines, which were manufactured by Rolls Royce, just…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat failed to meet President Bill Clinton’s deadline for making peace in the Middle East; Clinton declared the summit over and…

Why Johnny can’t fail

by Jerry Jesness,

Goodbye to all that

by Christopher Hitchens,

Why Americans are not taught history

The incoherent brain

by Allyson Goldin,

Learning to teach the learning disabled

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

by Earl Shorris,

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…