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| SCOTT HORTON—MOZART AT THE GATEWAY TO HIS FORTUNE: SIX QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTOPH WOLFF | Published: 06/07/12 |
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The last years of Mozart’s life and the prodigious and important works he created during them have been heavily romanticized in the musical literature. Now, one of this generation’s leading musicologists wants to set the picture straight. In his new book, Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune, Harv...
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| WIL S. HYLTON—FROM “BROKEN HEARTLAND: THE LOOMING COLLAPSE OF AGRICULTURE ON THE GREAT PLAINS” | Published: 27/06/12 |
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Until the Second World War, the Ogallala went almost entirely untapped. Nomadic tribes such as the Comanche and the Sioux had long adapted to the vagaries of the plains by avoiding permanent settlements. They drew water from ponds and streams and gullies, and when those ran dry, they followed the bu...
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| SCOTT HORTON—THE ART OF INTELLIGENCE : SIX QUESTIONS FOR HENRY CRUMPTON | Published: 22/06/12 |
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Henry Crumpton spent twenty-four years in the CIA’s clandestine service. His work put him at the forefront of the agency’s counterterrorism efforts, and on the front lines as America took on the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan following 9/11. His recently published recollections offer an excep...
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| MR. FISH—A CARTOON | Published: 22/06/12 |
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| CHRISTOPHER COX—SIX QUESTIONS FOR GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS | Published: 21/06/12 |
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The last time Harper’s Magazine readers saw Gideon Lewis-Kraus was in 2009, when he diagnosed the diseases of the publishing world at the Frankfurt Book Fair and infiltrated the community of medical-marijuana growers in northern California. A few years ago, he moved to Berlin, where cheap rent had a...
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| HARPER'S MAGAZINE—THOMAS FRANK ON MOYERS & COMPANY | Published: 15/06/12 |
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On the latest episode of Moyers & Company, “Dark Money in Politics,” Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Thomas Frank discussed the corrupting force of money on Washington, D.C.: . . .
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| JUSTIN STONE—WEEKLY REVIEW | Published: 11/06/12 |
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After denying for weeks that it would request an aid package from other Eurozone nations, Spain accepted a $125 billion bailout in order to recapitalize its insolvent banks and stabilize its financial markets in advance of what are expected to be tumultuous Greek elections. “Nobody pressured me,” sa...
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| MR. FISH—A CARTOON | Published: 08/06/12 |
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| SCOTT HORTON—FRAMED : SIX QUESTIONS FOR SANFORD LEVINSON | Published: 07/06/12 |
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The American Constitution has been the subject, just as Thomas Jefferson predicted, of a great deal of “sanctimonious reverence,” especially from American politicians who make comments demonstrating they know little about it. But the Constitution has few more-dedicated critics than political scienti...
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| ON THE USES OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION: II. AS A WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF THE RESTLESS POOR | Published: 05/06/12 |
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By the time I got to Bedford Hills, I had listened to more than six hundred people, some of them over the course of two or three years. Although my method is that of the bricoleur, the tinkerer who assembles a thesis of the bric-a-brac he finds in the world, I did not think there would be any more s...
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