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Crossing the Valley

by Walter Kirn,

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

A Radioactive Money Pit

by Sajan Saini, M.V. Ramana,

The hidden risks of small-scale nuclear reactors

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

by Jeff Madrick,

For as long as there have been machines, there have been worries about their power to destroy jobs. The Luddites — early-nineteenth-century artisans who bitterly resisted the new textile machinery…

In his classic book On Liberty, the nineteenth-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill urged that man strive to become “a progressive being.” Mill defined progressivism as the cultivation of individuality;…

Publisher’s Letter

by John R. MacArthur,

When I began my tenure as publisher of Harper’s Magazine nearly thirty years ago, my biggest challenge — or so I thought at the time — was to get advertising…

Beyond the Book

by Mark Kingwell,

By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…

The Bleakness Stakes

by Thomas Frank,

Dope beats

by Harper’s Staff,

The serfdom of crowds

by Jaron Lanier,

A new toy for the war room

by Harper’s Staff,

Technological innovations

Packing Heat

Crossing the Valley

A Radioactive Money Pit

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

The Future Progressive

Publisher’s Letter

Beyond the Book

The Bleakness Stakes

Dope beats

The serfdom of crowds

A new toy for the war room

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Packing Heat

Crossing the Valley

A Radioactive Money Pit

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

The Future Progressive

Publisher’s Letter

Beyond the Book

The Bleakness Stakes

Dope beats

The serfdom of crowds

A new toy for the war room

May 1999

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