Page 3 | Harper's Magazine

Jimmy Carter

The death of kings

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Prose translations from the poetry of despair

The money vanishes

by L. J. Davis,

Certain matters relating to T. Bertram Lance and various financial institutions

Extreme unction

by A. Lawrence Chickering,

The President and the bishop

Eyes only

by David Suter,

Trumping Asian allies

by Michael Arthur Ledeen,

. . . while dealing from the bottom of the deck

To the Disney Station

by Michael Harrington,

Corporate socialism in the Magic Kingdom

The urban crisis leaves town

by T.D. Allman,

And moves to the suburbs

Diplomatic spoils

by Roger Morris,

The Washington bureaucracy abroad

Pomp and circumstance

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The market in kings

The liberal Carter

by Tom Bethell,

Wooing the recipient class

Improvisations on a theme by Henry Kissinger