Congress salutes Byrd's service Nov 18, 2009
Nov. 17: Rachel Maddow is joined by Harper's Magazine contributing editor Jeff Sharlet to talk about the C Street House losing tax exempt status. Get the widget and many other at. (MSNBC -- Politics)
LETTER: Obama dismantling free-market system Nov 18, 2009
As Luke Mitchell said in Harper's magazine, Republicans, having lost their status as the party of business, have become the party of mere incoherent rage. "It is difficult to image anything good coming from a system that moderates the will of corporations with the fantasies of hysterics," he said. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Another View: Political correctness obscures lessons of Ft. Hood Nov 14, 2009
Miller is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Fox News contributor; Samuels is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. (Nov. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Oil floats highon easy money Nov 11, 2009
I, a detached cynic even then, just attributed it to Richard Hofstadler's famed 1964 Harper's magazine essay, "Paranoid Style in American Politics". Forty or so years later, oil prices are climbing again, up over 100% since last winter. (Asia Times Online)
• Staging 'The Mikado' Serious work brings forth lighthearted fun Nov 6, 2009
A review in Harper's magazine in 1886 described the then-new work this way: "It promotes the laugh for which everybody is better, the gaiety which leaves no kind of sting, the merriment which softens and relieves the strain of daily life.". In the hundred-plus years since those words were written, the production has become one of - if not the - most performed operas of all time. (Juneau Empire)
California's folly - Prop. 13 Nov 1, 2009
In November 1978, Harper's magazine published my article on the passage of Proposition 13 under the headline "Californians Rush for Fool's Gold.". More Opinion. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Author Dares Readers to Swim Through the Flotsam -- a New Novel Exposes the Psychopathy Just Below the Surface of Our Routine Oct 27, 2009
During that time, he published three novels, a collection of essays, and well over a hundred articles, reviews, and introductions for such journals as Partisan Review, Hudson Review, Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, Nation, New Republic, and The New York Times Book Review. He is the Consulting Editor Director of Barnes and Noble Classics. (Primezone Releases)
From John Birchers to Birthers, Thomas Frank, The Wall Street Journal Oct 23, 2009
Next month will mark the 45th anniversary of the publication by Harper's Magazine of Richard Hofstadter's famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," a work that seems to grow more relevant by the day. I was not always a fan. (Harper's Magazine)
'Flash mobs' dance out a message Sep 22, 2009
" Although flash mobs today are commonly linked to dancing, they were originally part of an experiment coordinated by Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper's magazine, based in New York City. "The whole idea of the experiment was to see how many people you could gather from a single call," Mr. Wasik said. "The flash mobs as I originally did them were 10 minutes or less, and they were conceived very much at the last minute through e-mail. " In a Harper's magazine article about the fad in March... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Huffington Post. Sep 2, 2009
Scott Horton is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, where he writes on law and national security issues, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where he teaches international private law and the law of armed conflict. A life-long human rights advocate, Scott served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. (Harper's Magazine)
The Many Sides of Ted Kennedy: Memories from those who loved and loathed the man, Salon Aug 27, 2009
Later I heard the author of "From Here to Eternity" tell Ted Kennedy, "That's not the bartender, that's the damned editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine." (New York, late 1960s). from "New York Days," by Willie Morris (Little Brown, 1993). (Harper's Magazine)
Read Hannity's America Aug 5, 2009
Harper's Magazine is reporting that if you want to be an ambassador in the Obama administration, it will cost you roughly $500,000 in political contributions. Major DNC donors are now being installed at diplomatic posts worldwide, and some are so controversial that countries like Germany have actually refused to sign off on the president's nominees. (Fox News)
Video:TV viewers step up to the plate for Iraqis Jul 27, 2009
Melissa Harris Lacewell, Princeton University; Lou Dubose, Washington Spectator; Jeff Sharlet, Harper's magazine. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
In the middle of hot summer comes a book called 'Cold' Jul 21, 2009
Says Harper's magazine: " 'Cold' describes a journey to a sensation that, in our comfortable, climate-controlled lives, is as foreign to most of us as New Guinea itself. (Though both offer opportunities for shedding a few pounds: 'Cold, really, is like malaria,' Streever writes. 'If it does not kill you, it will help you lose weight. Polar explorers eat more than 6,000 calories per day and still lose weight.') His account takes us month by month through a year at his home in Alaska, though over... (Anchorage Daily News)
F-22 vote tests Obama's veto threat Jul 21, 2009
Rachel Maddow is joined by Harper's Magazine contributing editor Jeff Sharlet. . (MSNBC -- Politics)
GOP decides Its the economy for 2010 Jul 17, 2009
John Ensign, R-NV, and Gov. Mark Sanford, R-SC. Rachel Maddow is joined by Harper's Magazine contributing editor Jeff Sharlet. U.S. Supreme Court interactives. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Sources: Tenet canceled secret CIA hit teams Jul 16, 2009
Rachel Maddow is joined by Harper's Magazine contributing editor Jeff Sharlet. Slideshow. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Barack Hoover Obama? Jun 23, 2009
The cover story for the July issue of Harper's Magazine is (Not freely available online. When one headline can conflate responsibility for both the Great Depression and the Vietnam War, you know the honeymoon is way over. (Salon)
SPEECH: Read full text of President Obama's address to AMA Jun 16, 2009
The thing is, this special issue was published by Harper's Magazine in October of 1960. Members of the American Medical Association my fellow Americans I am here today because I do not want our children and their children to still be speaking of a crisis in American medicine fifty years from now. (USA Today -- Money)
Text: Obama's AMA Speech On Health Care Jun 16, 2009
The thing is, this special issue was published by Harper's Magazine in October of 1960 -- (laughter) -- before I was born. (Laughter. (CBS News -- Politics)
First Rights: President Obama, meet President Reagan Jun 2, 2009
International lawyer Scott Horton -- on his Harper's magazine Web site, "No comment" (May 6), recalls that Reagan vigorously championed U.S. ratification of the international Convention Against Torture, which he signed in 1988. This treaty is the primary international foundation of anti-torture law, and Reagan acclaimed its having marked "a significant step in the development ... of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. "Ratification of the Convention... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Flash Mobs:Social Experience of 21s... May 22, 2009
The flash mob was created in New York, Manhattan in May 2003, by senior editor of Harper's Magazine Bill Wasik. He published an article explaining the origins of flash mob in the edition of Harper's, March 2006. (Suite101.com)
From Huffington Post May 15, 2009
Ken Silverstein of Harper's magazine was the first to report that suits had been bought on the then-Senator's behalf. A the time, Coleman's chief of staff by saying that he "has reported every gift he has ever received.". (Harper's Magazine)
Sex, the city and angel-hair pasta May 8, 2009
Giulia Melucci's memoir, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, follows the former Harper's Magazine public-relations vice-president through 17 years of failed relationships, as well as the recipes she used to lure men, sustain her romances and comfort herself when they faded away ... Giulia Melucci's memoir, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, follows the former Harper's Magazine public-relations vice-president through 17 years of failed relationships, as well as the recipes she used to lure men,... (Globe and Mail)
Civil obedience Apr 29, 2009
Lewis H. Lapham is up tonight with Mixed Media, a lecture by the national correspondent for Harper's Magazine and author of 13 books. Lapham contends that the media speak in so many forked and foreign tongues (film, book, video game, broadcast, blog) that without a dictionary it's hard to know who is saying what to whom. (Boston Globe)
Jewishfilm.2009 turns its lens on Christian evangelicals Mar 22, 2009
Franco Sacchi, the co-director of ''Waiting for Armageddon,'' says he was drawn to the subject by an article in Harper's magazine ... He grew up Catholic and had no prior interest in religious topics until this one came along; his interest was piqued by an article he read in 2005 about evangelicals in Harper's magazine. (Boston Globe)
Earth warming; get over it Mar 14, 2009
desertique wrote on Mar 13, 2009 5:19 PM:" Just a little background on Richard Lidzen. We don't want to ask him what he is smokin, just who pays him, what type or organizations he belongs to and what his political agenda is. That was an interesting 2006 opinion. I wonder if Lidzen is still having a problem now, four years later.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_LindzenAccording to a 1995 article in Harper's Magazine which was very critical of Lindzen and other global warming skeptics, Lindzen... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
A new ethos for the still-endangered Walrus Feb 28, 2009
Maybe, at some distant point, The Walrus Foundation will be able to establish a multimillion-dollar endowment similar to the one America's MacArthur family helped establish for the Harper's Magazine Foundation. Regardless, as long as it survives, The Walrus will be a charity case which Macfarlane is not ashamed of, as long as it remains an independent, serious, general-interest publication and not Canada's Vanity Fair or Esquire. (Globe and Mail)
You Cant Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America Feb 14, 2009
00 (Hardcover) Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine, goes undercover to find out the truth about how influence is bought and sold in Washingtoneven to corrupt foreign regimes ... 00 (Hardcover) Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine, goes undercover to find out the truth about how influence is bought and sold in Washingtoneven to corrupt foreign regimes ... The content of is copyright Harper's Magazine. (Harper's Magazine)
