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Social aspects

Why Art Should Be Bad

by Dave Hickey,

Plumbing the purse

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…

Spinning the Poor into Gold

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

How corporations seek to profit from welfare reform

Laugher curve

by Kenneth H. Craik,

A flapping of scolds

by Vince Passaro,

The literary establishment descends on T.S. Eliot

The diva in decline

by Daniel Harris,

Wedded to an Illusion

by Fenton Johnson,

Do gays and lesbians really want the right to marry?

Kicking the honeymoon habit

by Michael Medved,

Saddam’s inferno

by Paul William Roberts,

In Baghdad, things go from bad to worse

Perchance to dream

by Jonathan Franzen,

In the age of images, a reason to write novels