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Captive Markets

By Michael Ames, on October 2, 2015

Why we won’t get prison reform Read More

Statistically Significant Others

By Deborah Lupton,

From descriptions of sex-tracking apps included in “Quantified Sex,” an article by Deborah Lupton, an Australian sociologist, that was published in the April 2015 issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality.…

Counter Culture

By Caleb Crain,

A new kind of disenchantment has come over literature. It has to do with what you might call the working myth of the life of literature — the half-conscious way…

Captive Market

By Michael Ames,

It’s possible that Michael Dukakis didn’t understand the question. “If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered,” CNN anchor Bernard Shaw asked the Democratic candidate on live national television near the…

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Monte Reel,

Twenty-year-old Davonte Flennoy was killed on a Monday night in June 2012. As the setting for a murder, South Rockwell Street, in Chicago’s Marquette Park, was familiar enough to border…

Jurists’ prudence

By Melvin Schweitzer,

The luckiest woman on earth

By Nathaniel Rich,

Numbers Racket

By Kevin Phillips,

Almost four decades have passed since the United States scrapped its last currency ties to precious metals. Our copper and nickel coinage still retains some metallic value, but not nearly…

Correction

By Harper’s Staff,

Correction

By Harper’s Staff,

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Captive Markets

Statistically Significant Others

Counter Culture

Captive Market

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Jurists’ prudence

The luckiest woman on earth

Numbers Racket

Correction

Correction

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