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History

Flies in amber

by Lewis H. Lapham,

State of exception

by Scott Horton,

Bush's war on the rule of law

Detroit Arcadia

by Rebecca Solnit,

Exploring the post-American landscape

When I was in Baghdad

by Harper’s Staff,

National liberation from Japanese occupation, celebrated at the Arirang Festival

Art by Philippe Chancel,

11. The National Character

by Earl Shorris,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the…

Sentimental education

by Joanna Bourke,

The invention of human rights

Time Travel

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The mirror of life

by Jonathan Bate,

How Shakespeare conquered the world

The Lord of No Man’s Land

by Charles Glass,

A guided tour through Lebanon’s ceaseless war

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…