Harper's Magazine: C/D

Guy who wrote the Brautigan book also wrote the book Angel Heart is based on, Fallen Angel, I think, and some kind of historical whodunit featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Kit Carson, maybe. Counterpoint is a pretty classy imprint, think I may have started a go-nowhere thread about it.

Falling Angel. Conan Doyle and Houdini.

decent piece from the publisher: http://harpers.org/blog/2013/03/obamas-real-political-program/

i really loved the ehrenreich excerpt

Doug Henwood's Hillary takedown is very good and fair-minded, although I'm not sure what it accomplishes since I feel like a lot of people already don't love her and will vote for her anyway in the seeming absence of other options.

The ISIS article is great, maybe best thing I've read on the topic so far.

technological workplace monitoring article freaking me out

i just subscribed to this
there is this kind of shimmering vein of newness, presentness, running through some of the best harper's things, something i can't find elsewhere
the list of asmr requests last issue, the piece on tech libertarians, just fragments
really a nice part of my month

&

did anyone read the Values-of-a-Solitary-Life article

i kinda found it simultaneously unbearable, for its outlook, & valuable, for its frame of reference

Solitude is overrated

Believe me

really feel you
kind of a hard piece to read occuyping some of the same spaces as the author without having made lemonade from them

i wonder just how many pieces lewis lapham has written decrying american politics/society with comparisons to the fall of rome (republic or empire, take your pick)

not that he's *wrong*, but it's a very specific and tiresome hammer he wields. mixed it up by going with the greeks this last time, at least

i couldn't even bear to start that article.

lol, I haven't read him in years but I feel like that was every "Easy Chair" (or whatever they called the editor's column at the time) he ever wrote. He seemed completely useless to me as a writer and thinker.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSlAnIbWoAAGoVF.png

smdh

"When journalists themselves wage campaigns to suppress the writing of other journalists, and intend to destroy a magazine for not toeing their ideological line, you can see how free speech truly is on the line." https://t.co/BjFbmBgqHJ

— Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) January 12, 2018

🙄

There are some judgments in that piece that bypass "right-wing columnist" and go straight to "failed human"

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

dud

the motives of these signatories aside, there's no attempt (by some) to establish thoughtcrime in the name of progressivism right now, huh? Check.

the motives of these signatories aside

sorry can't extricate letter from motives of signatories

which likely vary except in Wokeland

that's where i live

On the positive side, my homie wrote this one:
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/this-is-not-a-test-disaster-city-texas/