Harper’s, the literary magazine founded in 1850 and celebrated in its early years for featuring the works of Herman Melville, Henry James and Mark Twain, has for most of its history been an insomniac’s delight – a snooze-inducing bore found mainly in the waiting rooms of doctors who hope to impress patients with a little […]

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s star correspondent regularly sent to cover major international events, alighted in Israel for the recent elections. Reflecting the general obliviousness of CNN coverage toward the Israeli populace’s deep anxiety in the face of almost daily terror assaults, a seemingly baffled Amanpour declared Sharon’s victory “incredible.” How, she asked her colleague Jerrold Kessel, […]