Harper's Magazine

HARPER’S MAGAZINE, the oldest general interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation through such celebrated features as Readings, Annotation, and Findings, as well as the iconic Harper’s Index.

Harper’s Magazine

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • Broken Links

MISTAKING IDENTITY • By Francis Fukuyama, from Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

THE SINS OF THE FATHERS • From things for which Roman Catholic popes have apologized.

OFFICE POLITICS • By Fanny Howe, from London-rose, which was published last month by Semiotext(e).

ALL IN THE FAMILY • By Melinda Cooper, from “Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection,” which was published in the Winter 2022 issue of Dissent.

BRAVE AND RATIONAL • By Yevgenia Belorusets, from a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com.

MORE OF A COMMENT THAN A QUESTION • From comments sent to public school boards in the United States since last year.

PEAK PERFORMANCE • By Catherine Lacey, from “Man Mountain,” a short story, which was published last month in the inaugural issue of Astra Magazine.

AN IDIOM ABROAD • From a series of lists compiled in Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats, by Adam Sharp, which was published in November by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

UNTITLED • By Osip Mandelstam. The poem, which is dated March 3, 1937, appears in Issue 51 of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Politics. Mandelstam (1891–1938) was a Russian poet who was arrested for anti-Soviet sentiment in his work and sent into exile, where he composed this poem. He later died while in transit to a labor camp. Translated from the Russian by John High and Matvei Yankelevich.

GHOSTING THE MACHINE • Humans, robots, and the new sexual frontier

MADE, NOT BEGOTTEN

OPERATION OVERSHARE • How the White House misled Ukraine

A WAY OUT OF IRPIN • Photographs from Ukraine

IN THE LAND OF LIVING SKIES • Reacquainting ourselves with the night

LOST CAUSE • How police violence disappears from death certificates

DOWN THE HATCH • On the road with the last American carnival sideshow

POWER FAILURE • The unseen obstacles to progressive reform

TEMPORARY HOUSING

NEW BOOKS

THE LOVE FEAST • Seeing Auden in a new light

QUINTESSENTIAL

FINDINGS