The Best of Harper's Magazine
10+ most popular Harper's Magazine articles, as voted by our community.
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The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner
Film and television writers face an existential threat
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The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem, by Andrew Cockburn
How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future
Harper's Magazine on Books
Who Walks Always Beside You?, by Benjamin Hale
A disappearance in Arkansas
Harper's Magazine on Fake News
[Report] Bad News, By Joseph Bernstein
Selling the story of disinformation
«Is social media creating new types of people, or simply revealing long-obscured types of people to a segment of the public unaccustomed to seeing them?»
Harper's Magazine on History
Mere Belief, by Sallie Tisdale
Sliding down the curve of forgetting
«perspective shifts to that of the observer»
Harper's Magazine on Politics
The European Way to Die, by Michel HouellebecqTranslated by Robyn Creswell
On euthanasia and assisted suicide
«As Nietzsche writes in Beyond Good and Evil, “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.”»
Harper's Magazine on Society
Doing the Work, by Ian Buruma
The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness
«beneficiaries of globalism like myself cannot fail to see, especially since the 2008 financial crisis, that not everyone profits from it.»
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[Folio] These Precious Days, By Ann Patchett
Tell me how the story ends
The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday, by Kyle Paoletta
How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm
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