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WEBOctober 2024. Share. [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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WEBAbout Harper’s Magazine. Harper’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.With its emphasis on fine writing and original thought Harper’s provides readers with a unique perspective on politics, society ...
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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 ...
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WEBWeekly Review. by Harper’s Magazine. 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 during a stop on her pro-Trump speaking tour.
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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Calvin and Madison on Men, Angels and Government - Harper's …
WEBNov 14, 2009 — Because of man’s. wickedness, for he is constantly overflowing with evil; this is why a. remedy is required. — John Calvin, Sermon on Galatians 3:19-20, “The Many Functions of God’s Law” (1558) in the volume Sermons on Galatians (Edinburgh 1997). If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men ...
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.