Home | Harper's Magazine
WEBThe Big Tech Extortion Racket. [Harper’s Index] Percentage change since 2011 in the amount of time U.S. 15–24-year-olds spend doing homework : +35. October 2024. Share. [Harper’s Index] Percentage change since 2002 in the portion of U.S. high school seniors taking the ACT who received perfect scores : +1,700. October 2024.
The Harper's Magazine Store
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Submissions - Harper's Magazine
WEBAll fiction submissions and nonfiction queries must be sent by mail to: Harper’s Magazine. 666 Broadway, 11th Floor. New York, NY 10012. Ideas for the Readings section are welcomed at [email protected]. Volume precludes individual acknowledgment. Art, Illustration, and Photography Submission Guidelines.
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 ...
Legalize It All, by Dan Baum - Harper's Magazine
WEBThroughout the drug-reform community, jaws dropped. As the once-unimaginable step of ending the war on drugs shimmers into view, it’s time to shift the conversation from why to how. To realize benefits from ending drug prohibition will take more than simply declaring that drugs are legal. The risks are tremendous.
From the Archive - Harper's Magazine
WEBHi there.You have 1 free article this month. Connect to your subscription or subscribe for full access You've reached your free article limit for this month.
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 ...
Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein - Harper's Magazine
WEBNevertheless, our American is sure that what her fellow citizens are reading and watching is bad. According to a 2019 Pew survey, half of Americans think that “made-up news/info” is “a very big problem in the country today,” about on par with the “U.S. political system,” the “gap between rich and poor,” and “violent crime.”.