Weekly Review — December 4, 2012, 8:00 am
Weekly Review
Syria’s communications blackout, North Korea’s unicorn lair, and Iceland’s ram-penis economy
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Number of people in New York City who jump subway turnstiles, per minute:
Paleoanthropologists announced the discovery of a species of hobbit-like humans on Flores, an island 370 miles east of Bali. The adult hobbits, who lived as recently as 13,000 years ago, were about the size of a three-year-old modern human child, and they hunted Komodo dragons for food.
In Hillah, Iraq, bombings at a roadside campsite for Shia pilgrims left at least 29 dead, and in Bahrain police fired teargas on protesters condemning Kim Kardashian’s visit to promote a new branch of her milkshake franchise.
Weekly Review — December 4, 2012, 8:00 am
Syria’s communications blackout, North Korea’s unicorn lair, and Iceland’s ram-penis economy
From the Magazine — December 3, 2012, 7:05 pm
“These rich farm bastards . . . support fat institutions of learning like the University of Iowa, which should be able to pay a decent fee for writers to come and titillate the same farmers’ daughters . . .”
Mentions — December 3, 2012, 4:05 pm
On the matter of conscious v. conscience in Prince's
“I Would Die 4 U”
No Comment, Six Questions — December 3, 2012, 2:23 pm
Tina Rosenberg on the British spy novelist who hoodwinked Hitler
Official Business — November 30, 2012, 5:49 pm
Join Harper’s publisher John R. MacArthur and columnist Thomas Frank at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Tuesday, December 4
Weekly Review — November 27, 2012, 8:00 am
“There has never been a battle,” said a general of the Free Syrian Army, “with this much booty.”
Mentions — November 21, 2012, 3:12 pm
Mark Crispin Miller’s August 2005 cover story for Harper’s, “None Dare Call It Stolen,” earns a mention in the New York Times.
From the Magazine — November 20, 2012, 2:30 pm
Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes
Weekly Review — November 20, 2012, 8:00 am
Turmoil in Gaza, Republican hand-wringing, and a narcoleptic goat named Voldemort
The Anti-Economist — November 19, 2012, 12:07 pm
On Stone’s compulsive—and necessary—historical revisions
Six Questions — November 14, 2012, 9:30 am
Mark Kingwell on fugitive democracy, the cultural role of philosophers, and hockey-borne Canadian anti-intellectualism
Weekly Review — November 13, 2012, 8:00 am
The U.S. presidential election, Sandy sex, and the super perv powder of an antivirus pioneer
The Anti-Economist — November 9, 2012, 6:24 pm
Will President Obama stand tough in budget negotiations?
Political Asylum — November 9, 2012, 3:59 pm
A dispassionate president disavows the liberal idea.
Political Asylum — November 8, 2012, 6:03 pm
Can the G.O.P. genuinely change its attitude toward minorities and women?
Six Questions — November 8, 2012, 3:31 pm
Elena Passarello on the animal appeal of the human voice and the art of the lyrical essay
Political Asylum — November 6, 2012, 2:01 pm
Obama’s data-driven approach may decide today’s race—and determine the future of the G.O.P.
Weekly Review — November 6, 2012, 8:00 am
Americans prepare to choose a president, a blindfolded Egyptian child chooses a pope, and Siri refuses to help you find a prostitute in China.
Political Asylum — November 5, 2012, 9:42 pm
An election-eve elegy for the country’s former guardians of sanity
Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes
