The Second Coming
Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Things Fall Apart
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“Let us think the unthinkable. Let us imagine Donald Trump’s potential path to reelection as president of the United States.”
Read “Four More Years” by Thomas Frank
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Martin Amis on the rise of Trump.
Read “Don the Realtor” by Martin Amis
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Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition.
Read “Truth Takes a Vacation” by Mark Edmundson
The Centre Cannot Hold
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“One user created a meme imagining a scenario in which they arrived at the White House gates wielding a saucepan. Another user bellowed, ‘They can pry TikTok from my cold dead hands!’”
Read “The Anxiety of Influencers” by Barrett Swanson
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On “BimboTok” and the legacy of Marilyn Monroe.
Read “Some Like It Hot” by Sophie Lewis
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Embracing habit in an automated world.
Read “Routine Maintenance” by Meghan O’Gieblyn
Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World
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Betty Friedan on the scientists who believed that “an Ice Age will result from a slow warming and rising of the ocean that is now taking place.”
Read “The Coming Ice Age” by Betty Friedan
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“The news from the Ice Desk is this: the prognosis for the future of Arctic ice, and thus for human life on the planet, is grim.”
Read “Rotten Ice” by Gretel Ehrlich
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The coming fight for the melting north.
Read “Cold Rush” by McKenzie Funk
The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned
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Read Barrett Swanson’s cover story in our latest issue, then search for the sublime, while staying dry, in the festival that is the Harper’s archive.
Read “High and Dry” by Barrett Swanson
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Sex, drugs, and raw sewage at Woodstock 99.
Read “Rock is Dead” by David Samuels
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The uses and abuses of psychedelics.
Read “Revolution in the Head” by Nick Richardson
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“If drilling holes and implanting electrodes that stimulate the brain actually works, what does that tell us about the nature of addiction and how to treat it?”
Read “A Hole in the Head” by Zachary Siegel