Harper's Magazine: January 2007

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January 2007

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	Photo [Cover art] By David Graham (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Toy ducks PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Barack Obama Inc., from November 2006: Letter By Robert Gibbs Letter By Albert Wan Letter By Peter Schmitz Letter By James Loewen Letter By Ken Silverstein On The kids are far right, from November 2006: Letter By Elizabeth Kantor PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Uncle Sam By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Democracy; Bush, George W.; Military Industrial Complex; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; Uncle Sam (Nickname); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article It was before words were By Robert Frost SEE ALSO: Diaries; Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.; Poets, American; Frost, Robert PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Poem Revolution By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Conflagration By Tom Burckhardt SEE ALSO: Arson; Artists' materials; Fires PDF IMAGES
16-19	Readings/Article Triumph of the shill By André Müller and Ian Pepper (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Breker, Arno; Friends and associates; Interviews; National socialism and art; Sculptors PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poem Tenderness By Zbigniew Herbert and Alissa Valles (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Sally Mann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cypress swamp ecology PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Four out of five peers agree SEE ALSO: Chewing gum; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; Litter (Trash); Rules and practice PDF TEXT IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Ebony and ivory SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Ethnic relations; Hispanic Americans; Illegal aliens; Interviews; Relations with Hispanic Americans; Anderson, Terry PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Uncle Tom's cabin Republican SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Political ethics; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Every word you say SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Electronic surveillance; Hunsaker, Kevin; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Dunn, Patricia; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Fiction For your eyes only PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration La Ponina By Atelier Morales SEE ALSO: Cuba; Sugarcane industry PDF IMAGES
25-28	Readings/Fiction Ambient parking lot By Patricia Lu PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Farewell tour By Malachi Ritscher SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Iraq War, 2003-; Ritscher, Malachi; Obituaries; Protest movements; Suicide PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Cleveland, Ohio, 2003 By Brian Ulrich (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cleveland; Shopping malls PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article Army of altruists: On the alienated right to do good By David Graeber SEE ALSO: Altruism; Egoism; 2001-; Right and left (Political science); Social values PDF IMAGES
39-62	Article Moby-Duck: Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood By Donovan Hohn SEE ALSO: Beachcombing; Environmental aspects; Marine pollution; Ocean currents; Plastics industry and trade; Sitka (Alaska); Toy ducks PDF IMAGES
63-69	Article Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States By Chalmers A. Johnson SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Democracy; Executive power; Bush, George W.; Imperialism; Keynesian economics; Military Industrial Complex; Military policy; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; Representative government and representation; Republicanism; United States. Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
70-78	Article Catching out: Travels in an open boxcar By William T. Vollmann SEE ALSO: Tramps; Travel—United States; Vollmann, William T. PDF IMAGES
79-80	Fiction The swim team By Miranda July PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: About Alice (Book); Ehrenreich, Barbara; Trillin, Calvin; McCann, Colum; Dancing in the streets: a history of collective joy (Book); Room for doubt (Book); Lesser, Wendy; Zoli (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review The usual suspect: Edgar Allan Poe, consulting detective By Arthur Krystal SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Stashower, Daniel; Death and burial; Poe, Edgar Allan; Rogers, Mary; The beautiful cigar girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-94	Review The pragmatic American: William James and our homegrown way of thought By Denis Donoghue SEE ALSO: Biography; Philosophers; Richardson, Robert D.; James, William; William James: in the maelstrom of American modernism (Book) PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens—and twelves By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz	Jan 9
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Jan 30
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Jan 16
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Jan 23

By Ken Silverstein

Six Questions for Dale C. Carson on Staying Off the “Electronic Plantation”	Jan 19
This Week in Babylon	Jan 26
Two Takes on Iraq	Jan 18
Meet the CIA's New Baghdad Station Chief	Jan 28
Six Questions for Carl Wagner	Jan 4
This Week in Babylon	Jan 5
The Waste Land: Declassified poetry from Guantánamo Bay	Jan 23
Plenty of Loopholes in New Lobbying Regulations	Jan 11
This Week in Babylon	Jan 12
Intelligence Community to Congress: “The dog ate my national intelligence estimate”	Jan 21
Congress to Negroponte: Quit stalling on the Iraq NIE	Jan 25