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July 2007

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	Illustration Escape from Eden (detail) By Rolland Golden SEE ALSO: Disaster victims; Flood damage; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Manufacturing depression, from May 2007: Letter By Jeff Kane Letter By Robert T. Rubin On A world in three aisles, from May 2007: Letter By Bryn Barnard On The continuation of poverty, from May 2007: Letter By Jack Treiman On Mandaeans, from May 2007: Letter By Jorunn J. Buckley Letter By Charles Hiberl PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article Air quality By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as talk show host; Celebrities; Imus, Don; Emissions trading; Racism in language; Sexism in language; Stereotype (Psychology) in mass media; Talk shows PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-21	Readings/Article Variations on a mirage By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Defenses; Iran; Israel-Arab conflicts; The Middle East; 2001-; Petroleum industry and trade; State-sponsored terrorism; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Miles to go SEE ALSO: Israel-Arab conflicts; The Middle East; Palestine; Propaganda, American; Frost, Robert; “The road not taken” (Poem) PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration National liberation from Japanese occupation, celebrated at the Arirang Festival By Philippe Chancel SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Japanese occupation, 1910-1945; Korea; Korea (North); Pyongyang PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article When I was in Baghdad SEE ALSO: Iraq PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Martin Klimas (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article The discreet charm of M. Sarkozy By Michel Onfray and Tobias Grey (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Interviews; Sarkozy, Nicolas; Philosophy; Philosophy, French PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Poem Heidegger's a.m. By Leslie Gottesman PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Little deaths By Félix Fénéon PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Plot line By Amy Cutler SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Moving, Household PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article The green man's burden By Travis S. Taylor and Bob Boan SEE ALSO: Astronautics, Military; Life on other planets; Military policy PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article Saved by the bell SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Career as high school history teacher; Christianity; Civil Rights; Creationism; Paszkiewicz, David; Education, Secondary; Evolution (Biology); Freedom of religion; High school students; Religion in the public schools PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Krumme Lanke 2 By Dieter Mammel SEE ALSO: Diving PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Why are we in Zefra? By Karl Schroeder PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article Paternity leave SEE ALSO: Career as suicide bomber; Father and child; Khan, Mohammad Sidique; Khyam, Omar; Pakistan; Suicide bombers; Terrorists; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Terrorism) PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article A little terror By Geoffrey Garrison (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Berlin; Career as suspected Al Qaeda agent; Father and child; Qaida (Organization); Seyam, Reda PDF IMAGES
32-33	Readings/Fiction Thirteen dreams By Najib Mahfuz PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Laylah Ali SEE ALSO: Indigenous peoples; Interpersonal relations PDF IMAGES
35-52	Article In the year of the storm: The topography of resurrection in New Orleans By Duncan Murrell SEE ALSO: Abandoned houses; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) PDF IMAGES
53-61	Article Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Ethics; Human Rights; Lobbyists; Political ethics; Turkmenistan; United States. Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
62-63	Article Mall of America: The architecture of our privatized government By Daniel Brook SEE ALSO: Buildings; Career as U.S. president; Contracting out; Bush, George W.; 2001-; Office buildings; Privatization; Public architecture; United States. Securities and Exchange Commission PDF IMAGES
65-73	Article Detroit arcadia: Exploring the post-American landscape By Rebecca Solnit SEE ALSO: Automobile industry and trade; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Rivera, Diego; Inner cities; Sociology, Urban; The Detroit Institute of Arts mural; Urban ecology PDF IMAGES
74-81	Article State of exception: Bush's war on the rule of law By Scott Horton SEE ALSO: Abuse of administrative power; Career as U.S. president; Confidential communications; Corrupt practices; Cuba; Bush, George W.; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Habeas corpus; Legal ethics; Legal status, laws, etc.; Military law; Prisoners; Public defenders; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF TEXT IMAGES
82-88	Fiction Death of the pugilist: Or, the famous battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw By Daniel (Daniel Philippe) Mason PDF IMAGES
89-90	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Bangkok haunts (Book); Pettitt, Clare; Livingstone, David; Dr. Livingstone, I presume?: missionaries, journalists, explorers, and empire (Book); Grass, Günter; Burke, James Lee; Burdett, John; Smith, Martin Cruz; Peeling the onion (Book); Pictorial works; Stalin's ghost (Book); The house that George built: with a little help from Irving, Cole, and a crew of about fifty (Book); The tin roof blowdown (Book); Sheed, Wilfrid PDF IMAGES
91-96	Review After the fall: Don DeLillo without his towers By Jennifer Szalai SEE ALSO: DeLillo, Don; Falling man (Book); September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
96-102	Review The irresponsibility of feelings: Reading Leonard Michaels By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Michaels, Leonard; Pictorial works; Sylvia: a novel (Book); The collected stories (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
103	Puzzle/Department Hex signs By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
104	Findings/Article Hex signs By Roger D. Hodge PDF TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Jul 10
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Jul 24
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Jul 17
Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz	Jul 31
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Jul 3

By Ken Silverstein

Bipartisan Duo of Ex-Congressional Heavyweights Blocking Action Against Ethiopia	9:05 AM Jul 25
Kazakhstan Recruits American Supporters to “Monitor” Its Election Will Borat be invited too?	2:09 PM Jul 18
Sneak Preview: Video from upcoming Reliable Sources leaked to Harper’s	4:11 PM Jul 6
“Freedom” Scholar Michael Ledeen’s African Friend	11:08 AM Jul 7
Not Out of the Danger Room Yet	10:53 AM Jul 27
An Exchange on Georgia	9:58 AM Jul 20
Journalism Ethics: A wrap-up	5:33 PM Jul 12
As North Korea Gives Up Reactor, Kazakhstan Seeks a Nuclear Edge	1:26 PM Jul 17
Six Questions for Joost Hiltermann on Blowback from the Iraq-Iran War	2:23 PM Jul 5
Dorrance Smith’s Department of Propaganda: Meet the American “Baghdad Bob”	5:57 PM Jul 11
Georgia Provides Troops for Iraq; Gets a Free Pass on Human Rights?	2:03 PM Jul 10
How the Pentagon’s “Surrogates Operation” Feeds Stories to Administration-Friendly Media and Pundits	2:40 PM Jul 19
John McCain Makes His Own Laws	1:53 PM Jul 13
Meet the Pentagon’s New Spin Unit: Bush Administration hacks court bloggers, talk radio	3:27 PM Jul 16
Six Questions for Seth Hettena on the Brent Wilkes Trials	9:29 AM Jul 12
Six Questions for Steve Braun on Gunrunner Viktor Bout	12:53 PM Jul 26
Not “Terribly Compelling”: Pentagon surrogates reply to criticism	5:14 PM Jul 24
The Beltway Press Needs a Good PR Firm	12:05 PM Jul 2

By Scott Horton

Politicizing the Civil Service	8:25 AM Jul 25
Neocon Jokes	12:30 PM Jul 19
More contempt citations on the way?	11:18 AM Jul 26
Hamilton on the Rule of Law	Jul 9
A Republic, If You Can Keep It The Bush Administration is preparing to state that executive privilege trumps everything.	7:18 AM Jul 20
I Accuse… 44 Attorneys General Demand an Inquiry Into the Siegelman Prosecution	10:00 AM Jul 16
Impeachment	3:27 PM Jul 6
Media Alert	8:30 AM Jul 27
Congress Presses Towards a Siegelman Probe	4:33 PM Jul 8
Adams on the Right to Knowledge	Jul 8
Elias Canetti, Pat Tillman, and the First Death in War	9:09 AM Jul 15
Called to Account	6:54 AM Jul 13
Congress Moves Forward on Siegelman	9:17 PM Jul 17
Trollope on the Qualities of a Good Politician	Jul 28
Franklin on Age and Judgment	Jul 3
Arendt on Reading History	Jul 30
A Bill of Indictment	1:21 PM Jul 4
Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence	8:36 PM Jul 2
Macaulay on the Dullard Monarch	Jul 2
How Walter Scott Started the American Civil War	11:11 AM Jul 29
Media Alert	4:49 PM Jul 20
Cheney and the Libby Pardon	5:25 PM Jul 8
Hume on Patriotism and Tyranny	6:46 AM Jul 23
Cracks in the Dam in the Siegelman Case	6:56 PM Jul 7
Tancredo’s Revenge	5:45 PM Jul 31
A Neocon Joke	12:40 PM Jul 20
Kraus on War	Jul 22
The Tower Between Being and Time	8:00 AM Jul 16
Jefferson on the Reign of Witches	Jul 4
Dana Jill Simpson Issues Press Release	3:28 PM Jul 20
Beaumarchais’s Gift	Jul 13
The 43rd President of the United States, the Honorable Neville Chamberlain	8:29 AM Jul 2
Outsourcing Intelligence	2:41 PM Jul 5
Mill on Wars, Just and Not	Jul 31
Javert’s Wailings	10:54 PM Jul 18
Between Two Revolutions	12:43 AM Jul 13
Patmos	7:27 AM Jul 16
Montesquieu on Securing Liberty	Jul 14
Paine on Preserving Liberty	Jul 5
A Note on Trakl’s ‘Song of Kaspar Hauser’	4:29 PM Jul 28
Sir Henry Durand and the Resurgence of Al Qaeda	8:51 PM Jul 14
Listening Recommendation	5:03 PM Jul 1
Slowdown Ahead	5:24 PM Jul 21
U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Albuquerque	7:30 AM Jul 2
Madison on the Dangers of War	Jul 7
A Message for July the Fourth	2:46 PM Jul 3
Lieutenant Gustl Visits Alabama	12:38 PM Jul 19
Hugo on the Ideal	Jul 15
Scott on Lawyers and History	Jul 24
The Neocon Armchair Generals	6:16 AM Jul 27
A Knight’s Quest for Humanity	4:26 PM Jul 10
A Breakthrough in the Litvinenko Case	9:05 AM Jul 15
A Congressional Escalation	10:00 AM Jul 26
Schiller on the Bubble-Boy Leader	Jul 17
Javert in Alabama, Continued	7:54 PM Jul 2
Corporate Corruption and the Bush Justice Department	7:32 AM Jul 24
DOJ in Default on Siegelman Deadline	9:46 AM Jul 28
FBI Director Confirms Gonzales Perjury	2:48 AM Jul 27
The Cabin Between Being and Time	7:02 AM Jul 5
Impeach Alberto Gonzales	6:42 AM Jul 29
A Southern Lady	7:07 AM Jul 13
The Dark Shadow of Racism	3:02 PM Jul 1
The Failed Courage of Colin Powell	6:36 AM Jul 8
Siegelman in the Iron Mask	12:30 PM Jul 13
Carlyle on the Disrobing of Judges	Jul 26
Trakl’s Song of Kaspar Hauser	4:28 PM Jul 28
Department of Injustice	3:05 AM Jul 9
The Tide Turns, Decisively	10:43 AM Jul 17
Bush’s War on the Rule of Law	12:02 AM Jul 17
Putomol	12:30 PM Jul 9
As Contractors Exceed Troops in Iraq, The Dawn of a New Military Culture	7:33 AM Jul 18
Making Murder Respectable	9:14 PM Jul 16
Swearing an Oath to the Leader	12:05 AM Jul 12
A New Counter-Terrorism Regime	7:11 AM Jul 11
Six Questions for Arthur Schopenhauer	11:20 AM Jul 1
The Call of Freedom	8:03 AM Jul 13
Obstruction at Justice	7:37 AM Jul 17
A Constitutional Crisis?	8:22 AM Jul 4
Blackwater Down	2:24 AM Jul 27
Media Alert	12:40 PM Jul 30
What Is, and To What End Do We Study History?	9:29 AM Jul 23
Update on Siegelman	2:37 PM Jul 11
Curious Crime Spree in Alabama	12:05 PM Jul 3
Twain’s Ironic Juxtaposition	Jul 18
The New Lysenkoism	7:31 AM Jul 11
Noel Hillman and the Siegelman Case	1:26 PM Jul 13
The Curious Case of the Dog That Did Not Bark	9:00 AM Jul 15
1934: The Plot Against America	8:18 AM Jul 28
Mark Fuller and the Siegelman Case	5:50 PM Jul 31
The Verdict is In	2:23 AM Jul 27
The Cure for Insomnia	7:28 PM Jul 18
A Gonzales Recap	6:30 AM Jul 25
Staging Iran	9:28 PM Jul 16
Rustaveli on Love and Friendship	12:36 AM Jul 10
‘Bama Media Suck-Up Watch: Boot-Licking Good	6:37 AM Jul 31
Northern Exposure	7:53 AM Jul 31
Adam Smith—When Businessmen Propose Legislation	Jul 25
The President’s Torture Order	4:12 PM Jul 26
Alabama, The View from “Across the Pond”	12:37 PM Jul 22
Melville on Doubt	6:34 AM Jul 21
Majority of Alabamians Believe Siegelman Victim of Politically Abusive Prosecution	4:00 PM Jul 31
Zola’s Thirst for Justice	Jul 16
It’s the Oil, Stupid	8:41 AM Jul 17
L’Espirit de l’escalier	2:16 PM Jul 3
Media Alert	9:53 PM Jul 18
Gonzales Speaks (Close-Captioned for the Politically Impaired)	10:51 AM Jul 24
Superman Scooter	8:58 AM Jul 3
Euripides on Tyrants and the Law	Jul 29
Newsflash from the Ministry of Fear	8:30 AM Jul 18
Hand on Humanity’s Challenge	Jul 20
Dr. Johnson on Oats	Jul 19
Schopenhauer on Wisdom and Stupidity	Jul 1
Sakharov on Intellectual Freedom	Jul 12
Return of the Reaganites	5:25 PM Jul 26
There’s No News in the B’ham News	7:46 AM Jul 25
Bush and Psychologists Who Abet Torture	6:13 PM Jul 17
A Tyrant’s Justice	10:42 AM Jul 13
Washington on Tolerance	Jul 6
Getting to the Bottom of This	3:33 PM Jul 3
A Credibility Chasm	1:12 AM Jul 10
Javert in Alabama	12:15 AM Jul 2
The Curious Omnipresence of Al Qaeda in Iraq Coverage	5:04 PM Jul 8
The Coming Cold Snap in U.S.-Russian Relations	11:29 AM Jul 6
Conan Doyle on the Need to Contribute to Posterity	Jul 27
The Bush Crime Family	5:50 AM Jul 8
It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions	12:46 PM Jul 19
Calm Heads vs. Headless Chickens	11:40 AM Jul 2
Karl Rove, Master of Secrecy	9:36 PM Jul 2
Further Gonzales Perjury Exposed	12:57 AM Jul 10
The Reign of Witches Is Coming to an End	7:00 AM Jul 4
U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Seattle	4:27 PM Jul 31
The Pity of It All	11:19 AM Jul 8

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	10:54 AM Jul 27
A Cartoon	11:30 PM Jul 19
A Cartoon	12:14 PM Jul 13
A Cartoon	9:31 AM Jul 6
Selected Cartoons	2:00 PM Jul 20
Another Cartoon	11:22 AM Jul 20