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The View from 86

By Malcolm Cowley, from a December 20, 1984, letter to Peter Braestrup, editor of Wilson Quarterly. Best known for his literary criticism, Cowley died in 1989. The Long Voyage: Selected…

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;…

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself

by Nathaniel Rich,

Going undercover with a cult infiltrator

Wendell Berry’s “Faustian Economics” (2008)

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Hell hath no limits

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…

Course Corrections

by Thomas Frank,

To the long list of American institutions that have withered since the dawn of the 1980s—?journalism, organized labor, mainline Protestantism, small-town merchants—?it may be time to add another: college-level humanities.…

Problem Number One

by Jeff Madrick,

This spring, Newark mayor Cory Booker, then considering a run for U.S. Senate, came to my office along with members of his staff to discuss national economic issues. We spent…

Unloaded Magazines

From a list of 891 periodicals removed in July from the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s on-base stores. Magazine sales at military exchanges declined by 18.3 percent between…

Tooth in Advertising

From a video targeting prospective investors in TheRealToothFairies.com, transcribed by the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood before the video was removed from YouTube.

Cold War Kids

by Irina Aleksander,

The international dispute over Russia’s orphans

Changing Partners

by Peter Oborne, David Morrison,

Can Hassan Rohani end the Iranian impasse?

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The View from 86

The Future Progressive

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself

Wendell Berry’s “Faustian Economics” (2008)

Publisher’s Letter

Course Corrections

Problem Number One

Unloaded Magazines

Tooth in Advertising

Cold War Kids

Changing Partners

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The View from 86

The Future Progressive

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself

Wendell Berry’s “Faustian Economics” (2008)

Publisher’s Letter

Course Corrections

Problem Number One

Unloaded Magazines

Tooth in Advertising

Cold War Kids

Changing Partners

October 2013

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