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HARPER’S MAGAZINE/MARCH 2016
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AMERICA’S BEST IDEA
In defense of our public universities
BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON
THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT KILLS BALD EAGLES
BY CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM
DRONE WAR! VEGANS VS. HUNTERS
BY JAY KIRK
“There could be no more
important or timely boo .”
—Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Timely
and
inspired.”
—Arianna Huington
“Powerful.”
— Senator Alan Simpson,
R-WY
“How each
of us pays a
price…for
the runaway
political
money game.”
— Hedrick Smith,
author of
Who Stole the
American Dream?
How we can save America from
the corruption that is destroying
our democracy.
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Letters
Traficking in Stereotypes
Easy Chair
Bird in a Cage
Harper’s Index
Readings
Safe spaces
With art by
And . . .
Scene
The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn
Essay
SAVE OUR PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
In defense of America’s best idea
Report
THE ROGUE AGENCY
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
From the Archive
About the Fox and the Fox-hunters
Annotation
MAD MAGAZINES
Underground comics come to Egypt
Poem
The Drums of Marrakesh
Letter from Massachusetts
KILLER BUNNY IN THE SKY
A drone war begins between vegans and hunters
Portfolio
UNDECEIVING THE WORLD
Can a staged photograph tell the truth?
Miscellany
EX POST
The life of a woman of letters
Story
GLORY
Reviews
NEW BOOKS
NEW DRAMA
BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT
Religious conversion across the ages
CIRCLES AND LINES
John Wray’s time machine
THE HUNGER ARTIST
The appetites of M.F.K. Fisher
Puzzle
Findings
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Katherine Kaufka Walts, Edmund McWilliams
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Rebecca Solnit
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Hannah Black, Dawn Lundy Martin, Osita Nwanevu,
Alix Rule, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Wesley Yang
Alex Kanevsky, Maroesjka Lavigne, and John Stezaker
a college student drafts his terms of endearment
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Elizabeth Royte
29
Marilynne Robinson
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Christopher Ketcham
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Thomas Bangs Thorpe
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Jonathan Guyer
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Mark McMorris, introduction by Ben Lerner
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Jay Kirk
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Stuart Franklin
69
Annie Dillard
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Lesley Nneka Arimah
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Christine Smallwood
Rivka Galchen
Gary Greenberg
Nick Richardson
Bee Wilson
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Richard E. Maltby Jr.
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Cover: Photograph by Thomas Allen
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LETTERS
Editor’s Note
This month we are introducing three changes to the regular format of
Harper’s
Magazine.
In the Readings section, the usual found documents and ine art
are accompanied by a thematically linked collection of original essays; the
result should combine the vigor of the Forum with the humor of Readings.
A new rubric, Scene, will showcase short reported features, with an empha-
sis on clear, lively writing. Finally, we have the irst in a quarterly series of
long poems chosen and introduced by our new poetry editor, Ben Lerner.
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Traficking in Stereotypes
Most people equate human traficking
with sex traficking—criminal networks
sexually exploiting women and girls for
proit. That is clearly a heinous crime.
But Vanessa Gregory [“The Lottery,”
Annotation, January] reveals an insidi-
ous and perhaps even more common
form of human traficking that operates
unbeknownst to both the public and the
justice system: labor traficking. Foreign
guest workers are exploited by factories
and construction sites; housekeepers are
forced into domestic servitude; children
are coerced into peddling goods door-to-
door. Victims suffer inancial, psycho-
logical, physical, and, often, sexual abuse.
At irst glance, these cases appear far less
menacing than sex traficking, but they
involve men, women, and children who
are being held hostage by debt, poverty,
and power. This power is often wielded
with impunity, because the trafickers are
individuals, small businesses, and corpo-
rations that claim to provide workers
with legal job opportunities.
The Signal International case is a
powerful example of the systemic ex-
ploitation of human beings for proit
under the guise of legitimate business
and labor practices. Signal’s business
practices underscore the need for labor
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traficking to receive the same attention
as sex traficking, starting with stronger
protections for workers and earlier in-
terventions by enforcement agencies.
Katherine Kaufka Walts
Director, Center for the Human
Rights of Children
Loyola University
Chicago
Friendly Fire
Andrew Cockburn’s “A Special
Relationship” [Letter from Washing-
ton, January] weaves together the
threads of fundamentalist jihadism
and U.S. policy in a timely way. The
United States fails to appreciate the
consequences of its involvement in
overseas conlicts, to understand that
today’s proxies and surrogates hold
agendas that could tomorrow render
them adversaries, or to recognize
that allies such as Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, and Turkey are pursuing geo-
political interests not consonant
with our own.
These complexities pose a challenge
to those now seeking the presidency,
most of whom advocate deeper U.S. in-
volvement in multidimensional conlicts.
They also point to the fundamental
analytical shallowness of neocon strate-
gies that rely on military strength in the
absence of historical understanding.
Edmund McWilliams
Retired Senior Foreign Service Oficer
White Oaks, N.M.
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Andrew Cockburn depicts a White
House that is bent on regime change
in Syria, despite a
New York Times
re-
port from October 2013, which stated
that from the beginning, “Obama made
it clear to his aides that he did not envi-
sion an American military interven-
tion.” Cockburn suggests that the even-
tual intervention was part of a master
plan concocted by the Saudis to thwart
Shiite inluence in the region. But such
a plan does not square with the invasion
of Iraq, which resulted in the rise of a
Shiite regime that has alienated Sunnis
so much that they have come to see the
Islamic State as a lesser evil in Anbar
province. This is to say nothing of the
Pentagon training program for Syrian
rebels, which required trainees to agree
in advance that their weapons would be
used only against the Islamic State, not
against the soldiers of Bashar al-Assad.
If this is a proxy war, it is not a very
good one.
The White House has been far more
determined to punish Al Qaeda,
through its drone attacks in Afghani-
stan and elsewhere. The sad truth is that
the most effective intervention in Syria
has come from Assad’s allies. Iran, Rus-
sia, and Hezbollah have now joined
forces with the Baathist military to de-
stroy non–Islamic State rebels who took
up arms after peaceful protesters were
attacked by government snipers. The
failure of Cockburn to acknowledge
the scorched-earth tactics of this un-
holy alliance is regrettable.
Louis Proyect
New York City
Andrew Cockburn responds:
Louis Proyect’s string of miscon-
ceptions usefully relects the addled
thinking of the administration, its
allies, and the media, which has
done so much to prolong Syria’s ago-
ny. Obama forswore as politically im-
possible military intervention (ex-
cepting the anti–Islamic State air
campaign) in Syria. Instead he opted
for covert action, in collusion with
regional allies, that was aimed at dis-
placing the Assad regime. Since he
and other administration officials
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