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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose 49-day premiership was outlived by a head of iceberg lettuce, alleged that a group of “far-left activists” had “suppress[ed] free speech” after they unveiled a poster of the victorious vegetable behind her …
The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe
Jun 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 …
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The print edition of Harper's May 2024 issue featuring: Daniel Bessner on the forces that are destroying Hollywood; Kyle Paoletta on the Republican primaries; haunting the Vegas of the Ozarks; Joy Williams on Kafka; Jamaica Kincaid on James Baldwin; and much more.
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Are Humans Good or Evil?, by Clancy Martin, Alan Strudler
Oct 9, 2014 · In this story: philosophers, the ethics of rhesus monkey testing, Friedrich Nietzsche, selfish altruists, animal concerns, sadists, Immanuel Kant, and Ponzi schemers. For access to Harper’s 164-year archive, subscribe here. Philosophers Clancy Martin and Alan Strudler debate whether humans are, as Martin argues, inherently good. “Clancy Martin sees people as ‘mostly good,’” Strudler ...
Everyday Use, by Alice Walker - Harper's Magazine
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, anyone can …
There’s the Rub, by Brian Blanchfield - Harper's Magazine
By Brian Blanchfield, from Proxies, an essay collection that will be published in April by Nightboat Books. Blanchfield is the author, most recently, of A Several World, a volume of poetry.. I can’t bring myself to rhyme it with “cottage,” but I’ve heard it pronounced that way. The French pronunciation makes it sound like a delectation, a frill or a whip, a froth.