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The Wanderer’s Port

I landed in Lisbon late on a temperate Thursday in January. This was the end of an unusually pan-European week for me. I’d spent the previous two days in a…

Reasons to be Cheerful

by Donald Hughes,

Man’s inhumanity to man getting you down? Don’t be afraid to check the clock

House of Fire

by Nell Freudenberger,

Can India’s Parsis survive their own success?

Naan to Five

From 2,945 occupations listed in the current edition of India’s National Classification of Occupations. Spinning Master Taxing Master Numismatist Rock Slicer Impression Taker Weather Observer

Made in Taiwan

Translated by Colin Jones,

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,…