Harper's Magazine
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Literary, brainy, and left-leaning, Harper's Magazine is an American institution (the first issue was dated June 1850). Its clean, type-heavy design shouts "serious readers only": many pages are two columns of text, period, and the illustrations are mostly art (often photographic) and artistic adornments. The reading, though, is what matters. It's substantive and often sublime. Along with lengthy, thoughtful, frequently controversial articles on politics and culture, you'll find essays, short fiction, in-depth reporting, and a few book reviews. Bylines routinely represent leading writers and thinkers of the day. Standing features include the much-copied but rarely equaled "Harper's Index," in which statistics tell stories; "Readings," a section of excerpts ranging in length from a few lines to thousands of words; and "Annotation," in which a real-life document is reproduced and "explained," usually to devastating political or cultural effect. Each issue is a full meal for the mind. --Nicholas H. Allison
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This magazine is edited to cover current social, political, cultural, scientific and economic issues. It also includes reporting, essays, fiction and memoirs by distinguished writers and promising new voices. It regularly features a statistical index, short cuts from various international texts and close analysis of current pieces of media.
Literary, brainy, and left-leaning, Harper's Magazine is an American institution (the first issue was dated June 1850). Its clean, type-heavy design shouts "serious readers only": many pages are two columns of text, period, and the illustrations are mostly art (often photographic) and artistic adornments. The reading, though, is what matters. It's substantive and often sublime. Along with lengthy, thoughtful, frequently controversial articles on politics and culture, you'll find essays, short fiction, in-depth reporting, and a few book reviews. Bylines routinely represent leading writers and thinkers of the day. Standing features include the much-copied but rarely equaled "Harper's Index," in which statistics tell stories; "Readings," a section of excerpts ranging in length from a few lines to thousands of words; and "Annotation," in which a real-life document is reproduced and "explained," usually to devastating political or cultural effect. Each issue is a full meal for the mind. --Nicholas H. Allison
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This magazine is edited to cover current social, political, cultural, scientific and economic issues. It also includes reporting, essays, fiction and memoirs by distinguished writers and promising new voices. It regularly features a statistical index, short cuts from various international texts and close analysis of current pieces of media.
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- America's last real Magazine
I'm a conservative (but lately more of a libertarian) but Harper's is my favorite magazine. It has honest political commentary, hard to find these days, that I don't always agree with but concede that the arguments are often compelling. The short stories are usually great, and the book reviews better than most. A favorite feature is "Findings" a short list of recent and bizarre scientific findings. I read it aloud to my family (and yes they enjoy it and look forward to each issue, too). Sometimes ... Read More
Rating: - really good but the cynicism is hard to take
OK, this is major league journalism and if you want a leftist progressive perspective it's about as good as it gets. But what turns me off--even though I read it avidly--is the level of cynicism that typically pervades its pages. Sometimes they rise out of it, as when they did an article on how capitalism might be saved and they included the brilliant thoughts of a number of well-spoken visionaries, but in general the cynicism drags it down a notch IMHO even though the writing is so damn good.
Rating: - The best magazine for liberal politics
I'm more libertarian than liberal, so I disagree with many of the views expressed in Harper's. And yet, I look forward to it every month--indeed, more than I look forward to Reason. Why? Because Harper's isn't just a place for political diatribes (see: The Nation or Mother Jones); it's a place for original journalism and thoughtful, timely analysis, right up there in the mid-to-highbrow pantheon with The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
As a bonus, the subscription comes with full access ... Read More
Rating: - Honest, independent magazine
This is one of my favorite magazines.If you want to understand what is going on in the country and the world, you should read Harper's every month.Gutsy, fearless reporting.If you are looking for more than corporate- speak reporting and analysis in a magazine, you should subscribe to Harper's.
Rating: - Consistant and thought-provoking
When one considers a subscription to Harper's, it may be a good idea to spot check one's core beliefs first, and then compare them against the editorial slant of the magazine.In the brief product review, Harper's is described as liberal and left-leaning.In my opinion, if it were to lean any farther, it would topple over.
I've subscribed to Harper's for several years now, and will continue to do so when my current subscription runs out in the Spring.Over this time, I've been continually ... Read More
- America's last real MagazineI'm a conservative (but lately more of a libertarian) but Harper's is my favorite magazine. It has honest political commentary, hard to find these days, that I don't always agree with but concede that the arguments are often compelling. The short stories are usually great, and the book reviews better than most. A favorite feature is "Findings" a short list of recent and bizarre scientific findings. I read it aloud to my family (and yes they enjoy it and look forward to each issue, too). Sometimes ... Read More
- really good but the cynicism is hard to takeOK, this is major league journalism and if you want a leftist progressive perspective it's about as good as it gets. But what turns me off--even though I read it avidly--is the level of cynicism that typically pervades its pages. Sometimes they rise out of it, as when they did an article on how capitalism might be saved and they included the brilliant thoughts of a number of well-spoken visionaries, but in general the cynicism drags it down a notch IMHO even though the writing is so damn good.
- The best magazine for liberal politicsI'm more libertarian than liberal, so I disagree with many of the views expressed in Harper's. And yet, I look forward to it every month--indeed, more than I look forward to Reason. Why? Because Harper's isn't just a place for political diatribes (see: The Nation or Mother Jones); it's a place for original journalism and thoughtful, timely analysis, right up there in the mid-to-highbrow pantheon with The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
As a bonus, the subscription comes with full access ... Read More
- Honest, independent magazineThis is one of my favorite magazines.If you want to understand what is going on in the country and the world, you should read Harper's every month.Gutsy, fearless reporting.If you are looking for more than corporate- speak reporting and analysis in a magazine, you should subscribe to Harper's.
- Consistant and thought-provokingWhen one considers a subscription to Harper's, it may be a good idea to spot check one's core beliefs first, and then compare them against the editorial slant of the magazine.In the brief product review, Harper's is described as liberal and left-leaning.In my opinion, if it were to lean any farther, it would topple over.
I've subscribed to Harper's for several years now, and will continue to do so when my current subscription runs out in the Spring.Over this time, I've been continually ... Read More
