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Harper's Magazine

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“America’s most interesting magazine.” —@nytimes Subscribe: harpers.org/twitter

New York, NY

Joined April 2008

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“After millennia of reaching up toward the sky, the levers just out of reach, the consensus on climate change indicates that we are, in fact, already manipulating the weather every day.” @wyatt_williams on the battle over weather modification and the theology of meteorology.
Hard Rain, by Wyatt Williams
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“A common misconstrual among Hockney’s critics in the recent controversy was that, with his immersion in the optical, he was somehow endorsing the optical as in some sense a better way of seeing.” Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney’s long and winding road.
Vanishing point, by Lawrence Weschler
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“When we see ourselves from inside, as free agents, not links in the chain of cause and effect, we’re all bound to seem a bit stupid in the end, even if no one else is privy to this view.” From “The Hormone Pill,” by César Aira.
Gratuitous Acts of Self-Delight, by César Aira
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From the June Harper’s Index. harpers.org/harpers-index/…
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“The refuse produced by our society is stripped of all illusion. It reveals the sometimes unsettling, unaccommodated face of all we cast off.” Simon Paré-Poupart on the life of the garbageman and the conscience of the city.
The Conscience of the City, by Simon Paré-Poupart, Translated by Pablo Strauss
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“To leave a floppy disk untended for twenty years does not permit one to pick it up later and reminisce, the way a letter or a photograph does.” From How We Disappear, by Thomas S. Mullaney (@tsmullaney).
Truth Decay, by Thomas S. Mullaney
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“Leftist Turned Trump Defender Renowned Biologist Turned HIV Denialist” From obituary headlines that have appeared in the New York Times since 2020.
Pivotal Moments, by Harper’s Magazine
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“We all know what happens when an apparel company or a beverage company goes out of business. You’re no longer able to find those drinks in the grocery store or get a hold of those jeans you love. But what happens if a cloud-storage company goes bankrupt?”
Truth Decay, by Thomas S. Mullaney
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“The manner in which Goetz’s story transpired…would repeat itself with every spasm of racial violence that took place in the years to come.” @kevlloydlozano on the city that Bernie Goetz made.
Strangers on a Train, by Kevin Lozano
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“Rather than a simple cure-all for the ills of the continent—or the world—Esperanto was a necessary precondition for the kind of ‘mutual understanding’ that might some day beget peace, Kasati believed.” —Katie Thornton
Love Language, by Katie Thornton
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“American society—grotesquely unequal and divided, helpless before its demagogic and oligarchic manipulators—is no longer a stranger to the dark ambiguities of lopsided economic progress.” —Pankaj Mishra
Geopolitical Narcissism, by Pankaj Mishra
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Golf carts $1,031,215 Peanut butter $457, 438 Calculators $379,897 From expenditures made by the U.S. Department of Defense in September 2025.
Matériel World, by Harper’s Magazine
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A cover from Rasht, Iran, from the book The Atlas of World Embroidery: A Global Exploration of Heritage and Styles, by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, which was published in February by Princeton University Press. Courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art harpers.org/harpersartdesk/
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