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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
Seven Steps to Heaven, by Wyatt Mason - Harper's Magazine
WEBMuch of the novel’s drama comes from the slow unfolding of the sources of Asle’s uneasiness. We have very little to go on at first. Asle lives alone in a cold, drafty old house on the southwestern coast of Norway, in a tiny fishing village called Dylgja. Not rich, Asle has nonetheless found a way to live off his art.
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 ...
To Serve Is to Rule, by Doug Henwood - Harper's Magazine
WEBA mong the bastions of WASP power over the decades, along with industry and finance, was foreign policy, which is a polite way of describing the creation and maintenance of a hierarchical world with the United States on the top and the rest of the world sorted beneath. It’s worth taking the measure of the sway the WASPs once held. Central to that sway was the Council on Foreign Relations (C ...
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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 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 ...
How Walter Scott Started the American Civil War - Harper's …
WEBJul 29, 2007 · Walter Scott, the wrecker of culture—the man who substitutes mushy illusion for sober reason. Walter Scott, the man who left a whole generation of Southerners thinking about the idyllic life and plantation agriculture, with its natural order of aristocracy and slavery. Walter Scott, the enemy of modernity, of technology and democracy.