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WEBHarper’s Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper’s Index.
Everyday Use, by Alice Walker - Harper's Magazine
WEBby Alice Walker. I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves ...
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WEBThe Sixties. $14.95. Culled from 174 years of excellent writing, these themed anthologies include America’s most iconic authors. George Plimpton, Walker Percy, Joe McGinniss, David Halberstam, Richard Hofstadter, C. Vann Woodward, Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Sara Davidson, Louis Lomax and many more. Recollections of the Decade from Harper's ...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson - Harper's Magazine
WEBI t is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers.
The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe
WEBJun 26, 2014 · 6. “The Midnight Special.” An old, old folk song, the words first written down by Howard Odum in 1905, and first recorded in the 1920s. My favorite version is Leadbelly’s rendition, but Creedence is also great, and then there’s Belafonte’s 1962 cover, which starts with a hard-driving Dylan harmonica riff to start — supposedly the first piece of music Bob ever got recorded.
Constitution in Crisis - Harper's Magazine
WEBA merica’s Constitution was once celebrated as a radical and successful blueprint for democratic governance, a model for fledgling republics across the world. But decades of political gridlock, electoral corruption, and dysfunction in our system of government have forced scholars, activists, and citizens to question the document’s ability to address the thorniest issues of modern ...
What Is Literature?, by Arthur Krystal - Harper's Magazine
WEBAdjust. In defense of the canon. by Arthur Krystal. T here’s a new definition of literature in town. It has been slouching toward us for some time now but may have arrived officially in 2009, with the publication of Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors’s A New Literary History of America. Alongside essays on Twain, Fitzgerald, Frost, and Henry ...
The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Harper's Magazine
WEBby Richard Hofstadter. It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it—and its targets have ranged from “the international bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers. A merican politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers ...
What Came Before the Big Bang?, by Alan Lightman - Harper's …
WEBO n Wednesday, February 11, 1931, Albert Einstein met for more than an hour with a small group of American scientists in the cozy library of the Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California. The subject was cosmology, and Einstein was poised to make one of the more momentous statements in the history of science. With his theories of relativity and gravity long confirmed and his Nobel ...
Are Humans Good or Evil?, by Clancy Martin, Alan Strudler
WEBOct 9, 2014 · Philosophers Clancy Martin and Alan Strudler debate whether humans are, as Martin argues, inherently good. “Clancy Martin sees people as ‘mostly good,’” Strudler counters. “His most persuasive reason seems quantitative: people much more often act rightly than wrongly…The idea that people are good because they do mostly good things ...
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