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    Jun 17
    In our July issue: Christopher Hooks on America250, William T. Vollmann on a free people’s government, Ann Manov on civic centers, Meghan O’Gieblyn on willpower, Clare Bucknell on Vermeer, Rosanna Warren on John Berryman, and a story by Padgett Powell. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…
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    “With his deeply schooled wildness (he was a formidable scholar of Shakespeare), Berryman blasted open the language of poetry, much as his friend Saul Bellow enlarged the reaches of prose fiction.” —Rosanna Warren
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    Dreams and Nightmares, by Rosanna Warren
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    “Movie has made us irresponsible fabulists, capable of watching but never seeing ourselves, as we follow pretty faces and cardboard mobsters into turpitude.” Dan Piepenbring reviews David Thomson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies.
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    New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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    “August, Patsyno, Turfway Park: Shortly after returning to stall, stifle area began to swell to the size of three basketballs—complete displaced pelvic fracture. Euthanized.” The casualties of Kentucky horse racing, as documented by @racingwrongs.
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    Year of the Horse, by Harper’s Magazine
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    “The object of attention is ultimately less important than the discipline itself, which is meant to deepen one’s love for goodness and truth, and also to intensify compassion for others.” Meghan O’Gieblyn on Simone Weil.
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    Jul 4
    “The biggest adventure is the nonadventure you are on while longing for adventure. The trick is to contemplate the nonadventure in terms of the nonadventure. This is akin to multiplying a negative and a negative.” —Padgett Powell
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    Jul 4
    “When the GOP holds the White House, America is great; when it doesn’t, it isn’t. Simple. One day, the eagle screams in triumph; the next, we remember our forsaken Old Glory through the noble haze of patriots’ tears.” —Thomas Frank
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    The Spirit of the Age, by Thomas Frank
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    “Americans have always had trouble reconciling their amiable and commercial temperament with the demands of a necessarily cruel and selfish state.” Lewis H. Lapham in “The New Patriotism” (June 1984).
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    The New Patriotism, by Lewis H. Lapham
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    Jul 3
    “The conservative education-reform movement is a fragmented one, and only some of its aims line up with those of MAGA and the larger GOP.” Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts.
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    “All too often, voices raised in the name of superpatriotism denounce honest divergences as akin to treason.” From “The Hard Kind of Patriotism” (July 1963).
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    Love of Country, by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
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    “March 27, 2004 The food was better, and at least Iraqi, though it is clear that the caterer is not drawn naturally to Iraqi food. He still brings along lousy Western-style bread, which I had him remove.” —L. Paul Bremer
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    “If and when America dies, I suppose we will continue on, bustling like beetles between her bones. I used to assume she would outlive me, because she was supposed to live forever; now, just in case, let me kiss her goodbye.” —William T. Vollmann
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    “I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.” —Thurgood Marshall
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