Page 66 | Harper's Magazine

United States

The Necessity of Agriculture

From a May 16 speech given in acceptance of the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award. Novelist and conservationist Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) was the author of over thirty works of fiction…

Understanding Obamacare

by Luke Mitchell,

The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No one hates competition more than the managers of corporations. Competition does not enhance…

Weekly Review

by Christopher Beha,

Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused September 11 plotters would be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan. “It is fitting that 9/11…

An American cattleman. Abdullah Abdullah, presidential challenger to Hamid Karzai, announced that he was quitting the runoff election. In a choked-up voice he cited concerns about increased violence in Afghanistan…

The Worst of Times

by Arthur Krystal,

Revisiting the Great Depression

About Motorcycles

by Frederick Seidel,

My father was a hunchback. He had an accident on his bicycle when he was a child, which ended with his falling into a coal cellar, a fall of thirty…

Voodoo Academics

by Christopher Beha,

Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy

The Intelligence Factory

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How America makes its enemies disappear

Adult situations

by Brett Fletcher Lauer,

Next year in Washington

by Frank I. Luntz,

The War We Can’t Win

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

1
…
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
…
2,120

United States

From the Archive

Got it! Thanks for signing up!

The Necessity of Agriculture

Understanding Obamacare

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The Worst of Times

About Motorcycles

Voodoo Academics

The Intelligence Factory

Adult situations

Next year in Washington

The War We Can’t Win

November 2009

Debug