Harper's Magazine

HARPER’S MAGAZINE, the oldest general interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation through such celebrated features as Readings, Annotation, and Findings, as well as the iconic Harper’s Index.

Harper’s Magazine

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • The Social Body

HEADED INTO THE ABYSS • THE STORY OF OUR TIME, AND THE FUTURE WE’LL FACE

READINGS

SHILL TO POWER • From descriptions of Sam Bankman-Fried included in an article written by Adam Fisher and published by Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that invested $150 million in Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency platform FTX. Sequoia removed the article from its website two days before FTX filed for bankruptcy in November. In January, Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges including fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

TALK OF THE TOWN • From descriptions of popular Twitter conversations in 2022, as summarized by the company. The topics were archived by whatshappening.online.

SOUP, SALAD, AND PINK SLIPS • From an email sent by a manager of an Olive Garden in Overland Park, Kansas.

WORST RESPONDERS • From a disciplinary report produced by the Denver Fire Department in October.

WHAT SONGS DO

AT RANDOM • The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

THE READING PUBLIC

ALTERNATIVE FACTS • How the media failed Julian Assange

FROG • What happens to the pets that happen to you

KNIGHTS-ERRANT • Online chess reshape s the game of kings

A CLIMATE OF FEAR • The free speech skeptics abandon Salman Rushdie

CONSIDER THE WOUND

TRIPTYCH

NEW BOOKS

HISTORY’S FOOL • The long century of Ernst Jünger

SOLUTION TO THE FEBRUARY PUZZLE • NOTES FOR “SIXES AND SEVENS (AND TWELVES)”:

PUZZLE • TRUE WORDS

FINDINGS