Zola
← Browse

Harper's Magazine

harpers.org

One of the oldest American magazines, still essay-first. Politics, the arts, and a back-of-book of fragments. Metered paywall; a library card usually gets you in.

81 articles0 followers

Recent articles

H
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Weekly Review

The United States House of Representatives passed a bill to allocate aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on the Russian economy; Senator Dan Sullivan enjoined voters not to vote for his rival, also named Dan Sullivan, in the bid for his congressional seat; The U.S. president endorsed a New Jersey representative whose whereabouts have been unknown for months. The post Weekly Review appeared first on Harper's Magazine.

Harper’s MagazineJun 9, 2026
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

U.S. Attorneys Scandal--Seattle , by Scott Horton

Jeffrey Toobin has written a beautiful, but very worrying, piece in the current New Yorker. It’s more than competent reporting; it can stand as a monument

Scott HortonJul 31, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Mark Fuller and the Siegelman Case , by Scott Horton

Over the last two months I have examined many different aspects of the Justice Department’s prosecution of former Governor Don E. Siegelman. The

Scott HortonJul 31, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

How Walter Scott Started the American Civil War , by Scott Horton

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883) George William Curtis, The Editor’s Easy Chair, Harper’s, Mar. 1891 A week ago this morning, I was standing in

Scott HortonJul 29, 20078 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Impeach Alberto Gonzales , by Scott Horton

Having spent the last week overseas, I was busy on return catching up with missed episodes of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show.” And I found the fake-news

Scott HortonJul 29, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

A Note on Trakl's 'Song of Kaspar Hauser' , by Scott Horton

I have just posted my translation of one of Georg Trakl’s poems, The Song of Kaspar Hauser from the collection published posthumously in 1915 entitled

Scott HortonJul 28, 20076 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Blackwater Down , by Scott Horton

The cloud of secrecy that surrounds the private security contracting industry is nowhere more evident than in the workings of Blackwater U.S.A. The

Scott HortonJul 27, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

The President's Torture Order , by Scott Horton

On Friday afternoon, as I was on my way out to the airport for a flight overseas, the White House issued an order on interrogation techniques. This

Scott HortonJul 26, 20076 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

A Gonzales Recap , by Scott Horton

For those of you who missed the testimony of Alberto Gonzales before the Judiciary Committee, I’d recommend making the effort to catch it on a CSPAN

Scott HortonJul 25, 20079 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Not “Terribly Compelling”: Pentagon surrogates reply to criticism , by Ken Silverstein

A number of the bloggers who participate in conference calls organized by the Pentagon’s public affairs office have objected to recent stories I’ve posted

Ken SilversteinJul 24, 20076 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Gonzales Speaks (Close-Captioned for the Politically Impaired) , by Scott Horton

I’m sitting in a bar in Edinburgh, Scotland, and guess what people are watching? Alberto Gonzales testifying. (Many rude comments in the background. Even

Scott HortonJul 24, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

What Is, and To What End Do We Study History? , by Scott Horton

It was the middle of 1789; it was in the old world, but on the cusp of a new one. The ancients would have called it a cæsura, a cutting or breaking

Scott HortonJul 23, 200716 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Alabama, The View from "Across the Pond" , by Scott Horton

I am in Britain this week, and impressed by the coverage that the British tory press is giving to the Justice Department scandal in the United States. In

Scott HortonJul 22, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

A Republic, If You Can Keep It , by Scott Horton

Congressional investigations on various fronts are now being obstructed at every step by the Bush Administration. Word began circulating during the winter

Scott HortonJul 20, 20078 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

How the Pentagon’s “Surrogates Operation” Feeds Stories to Administration-Friendly Media and Pundits , by Ken Silverstein

Earlier this week I wrote a story about a program run by the Pentagon’s Office of Public Affairs. This program seeks to bypass the mainstream press by

Ken SilversteinJul 19, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Lieutenant Gustl Visits Alabama , by Scott Horton

These days I have taken to starting the day with a survey of the Alabama newspapers to see how they’re covering some of the matters I am following. I

Scott HortonJul 19, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Newsflash from the Ministry of Fear , by Scott Horton

In Graham Greene’s World War II-era classic, everything starts when the protagonist guesses the correct weight of a cake at a fair and walks off with his

Scott HortonJul 18, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Bush and Psychologists Who Abet Torture , by Scott Horton

Just out: Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban provides a polished, probing account of the Bush Administration’s use of torture techniques, and how it bamboozled

Scott HortonJul 17, 20075 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

I Accuse... 44 Attorneys General Demand an Inquiry Into the Siegelman Prosecution , by Scott Horton

Today forty-four attorneys general from forty of the fifty states of the Union petition the United States Congress demanding a formal inquiry into the

Scott HortonJul 16, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

The Tower Between Being and Time , by Scott Horton

On July 5, I posted a little piece on Martin Heidegger’s cabin in the woods, located outside of Freiburg, drawing on a wonderful essay written by Leland

Scott HortonJul 16, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Patmos , by Scott Horton

for the Landgrave of Homburg By Friedrich Hölderlin God is near Yet hard to seize. Where there is danger, The rescue grows as well. Eagles live in the

Scott HortonJul 16, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Elias Canetti, Pat Tillman, and the First Death in War , by Scott Horton

Back in the mid-seventies I was studying at the University of Munich and attended for pure amusement a seminar given by the remarkable Wolfgang Frühwald,

Scott HortonJul 15, 200712 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Noel Hillman and the Siegelman Case , by Scott Horton

Noel Hillman (photo) is a federal judge in Camden, New Jersey appointed to the court by President Bush in the spring of 2006. He gathered the support of

Scott HortonJul 13, 200715 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

A Knight's Quest for Humanity , by Scott Horton

Shota Rustaveli, Vephkhistqaosani (The Knight in Panther’s Skin) (ca. 1190)(K. Vivian transl. 1977) On the rim of the Biblical world, in the mountains of

Scott HortonJul 10, 200711 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

The Pity of It All , by Scott Horton

Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743—1933 (Henry Holt & Co., 2003) I still remember some thirty years back telling a

Scott HortonJul 8, 20078 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

The Coming Cold Snap in U.S.-Russian Relations , by Scott Horton

Presidents Bush and Putin just concluded a summit at the Kennebunkport compound owned by the former President Bush. It included obligatory photographs of

Scott HortonJul 6, 200715 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Outsourcing Intelligence , by Scott Horton

Beginning in 2002, it was apparent that Rumsfeld and Cheney had jointly developed a plan aimed at shifting the center of gravity in the U.S. intelligence

Scott HortonJul 5, 20076 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

The Cabin Between Being and Time , by Scott Horton

This month’s Harper’s features a wonderful poem by Les Gottesman entitled “Heidegger’s a.m.” which presents some Heideggerian phenomenology with caffeine

Scott HortonJul 5, 20076 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

A Constitutional Crisis? , by Scott Horton

We can sum up George Bush’s notion of justice by looking at how he has dispensed it over the last six years. There are basically two flavors of justice:

Scott HortonJul 4, 20077 min read
Harper's Magazine
Free quota

Superman Scooter , by Scott Horton

The Neocon corner has been training its well coordinated and still considerable press fire power (The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and

Scott HortonJul 3, 20075 min read