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A new year heralds a new newsletter! Harper's "From the Archive" has arrived on Substack. Peruse these timeless stories from our 173-year archive, handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Strengthen Your Resolve
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s top tips for self-discipline.
Read “Where I Get My Energy” by Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The man of discretion will go over himself each day and tap himself with a small hammer to see that his body is functioning as it ought to.”
Read “The Human Body—Its Care and Prevention” by Stephen Leacock
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Going the distance at the tenth running of the Self-Transcendence Race.
Read “Run Like Fire Once More” by Sam Shaw
Bless You? Bishops Balk at Vatican’s Gay Marriage Concession
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A Roman Catholic observer finds the prospect for a modernization of the Church quite dim.
Read “The Vatican Council Ends” by F.E. Cartus
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John Paul II’s stern sexual doctrine prompts an American Catholic to ask a few further questions about the discipline of the spirit and the pleasures of the flesh.
Read “Arguing with the Pope” by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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“What we met and worked and marched and wrote and died for was radical transformation. What we settled for was marriage.”
Read “The Future of Queer” by Fenton Johnson
An Earthquake in Japan
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William T. Vollmann on life at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster.
Read “Invisible and Insidious”
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Tracing the effects of Japan’s 2011 earthquake disaster on one family.
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An encyclopedic accounting of seismic and volcanic disasters from Pompeii to the Great Lima Earthquake of 1746.
Read “The Lands of the Earthquake”
Take The Mickey: Disney in the Public Domain
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“Disney has copyrighted and registered his various brain children in every possible way to protect himself from infringement and gross imitators.”
Read “Mickey Mouse’s Financial Career”