From the Editor’s Notebook that appeared in the June 1988 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The news from…

Read more

From resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly since 1982 for which the United States and Israel were the only two member states, of more than 150 nations, to…

Read more

Why liberals should give up on the judiciary

Read more

It is often said that our Constitution is alive. As the Supreme Court reinterprets the law in different eras, our rights both grow and diminish—sometimes with glacial slowness, sometimes with…

Read more

The politics of abortion after Roe v. Wade

Read more

The religious origins of American liberalism

Read more

In Henry IV, the king on his deathbed gives his son and heir the ancient advice dear to the hearts of rulers in dire straits at home: I . .…

Read more

What comes after the American Century?

Read more

From Letter to the Americans, which was written in 1949 after a visit to New York City. It will be published for the first time in English this month by…

Read more