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The Letters of Lewis H. Lapham and Henry A. Kissinger

by Lewis H. Lapham, Henry A. Kissinger,

July 30, 1979 Dear Dr. Kissinger: I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation at lunch last month, and I hope that we have an occasion sometime in the fall to extend and…

Mists of Wish and Dream

by Lewis H. Lapham,

From the Editor’s Notebook that appeared in the June 1988 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The news from…

Israel’s War Within

by Bernard Avishai,

On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

The Kissinger Centennial

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Daniel Bessner

All about the birthday boy—and Christopher Hitchens’s case against him

Om Land Security

by Harper’s Staff,

From an April 23, 1971, telephone conversation between Allen Ginsberg and Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser to President Richard Nixon. Eugene McCarthy had left the Senate that January. Richard…

The mandarins

by Ken Silverstein,

American foreign policy, brought to you by China

Most Favored Nation

by Harper’s Staff,

From a memorandum of conversation for a meeting held in Beijing on February 17, 1973, attended by U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao Zedong, Prime Minister Zhou Enlai,…

Flies in amber

by Lewis H. Lapham,

When Henry Met Sadun

From a December 17, 1975, memorandum of conversation recording a meeting in Paris between U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Sadun Hammadi. The…

Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

George W. Bush in Vietnam (White House photo). In Hillah, Iraq, a man promising work lured day-laborers into a minivan, then blew it up, killing 22 people. “The ground was…

This Atrocity Thing

by Harper’s Staff,

From notes taken during a November 21, 1969, telephone conversation between National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird following the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s publication of photographs…

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The Letters of Lewis H. Lapham and Henry A. Kissinger

Mists of Wish and Dream

Israel’s War Within

The Kissinger Centennial

Om Land Security

The mandarins

Most Favored Nation

Flies in amber

When Henry Met Sadun

Weekly Review

This Atrocity Thing

August 2004

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