Harper's Magazine

“Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history.” —Pankaj Mishra harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“What’s being shaped is not the audience directly, but the atmosphere in which the audience encounters something, the environment that determines whether it appears meaningful or real.” From “You Don’t Actually Like the Band Geese,” by Tony Price, which was published in April. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“Though much has changed in the intervening decades, it’s easy to recognize these aspects of Goetz’s era in our own. The renewed interest in his case raises an uncomfortable question: Is the city still ruled by its own violent id?” —@kevlloydlozano harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“Esperantists cannot have ‘rizz,’ and the acceptance of malleable, unregulated internet slang like ‘six seven’ would threaten the entire social contract upon which the experiment is predicated.” Katie Thornton reports from the World Esperanto Congress in the Czech Republic. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

From this month’s Harper’s Index. harpers.org/harpers-index/…

“Screen Idol Turned Activist Beauty Queen Turned Defiant Rights Activist Pop Star Turned Survivor” From obituary headlines that have appeared in the New York Times since 2020. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“‘But Y,’ I said, ‘why do you want me to write a novel about your life? Why not a straight biography?’ ‘There’s nothing straight about either of us,’ he said.” From a story by Kevin Brazil. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“I thought it was Venus, but it was too late in the morning. I thought it was a star, but it was too close. I thought it was a meteorite, but it was too slow.” From eyewitness testimonies sent to the National UFO Reporting Center since 1999. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“Our optimisms, our politics, our faiths, our failures, our visions of benevolence or cruelty: they’re all up there floating in the sky.” @wyatt_williams on cloud seeding and the battle over weather modification. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“He looked at his face in the mirror, illuminated by a gigantic promise of laughter. No one knew what he’d gotten up to in secret.” From “The Hormone Pill,” by César Aira, a story in the collection Five, which will be published by New Directions. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“The aspiring American saviors still cannot grasp why Iran’s rulers would rather destroy the world’s economy than surrender their hard-won national sovereignty to a sadistically imperialistic United States and its Middle Eastern proxies.” —Pankaj Mishra harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

My story for @Harpers here: harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

Climate change is an accomplishment unlike almost any in human history. The question is now: Will we ever get any good at it? I wrote about god, the weather, and what cloud seeding drones are actually doing in the sky for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“A review of public records by the climate-news outlet Heatmap found that at least twenty-five data-center projects were canceled in 2025 due to local pushback, and that ninety-nine more were being contested as of January.” —Andrew Cockburn (@andrewmcockburn) harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

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“There’s a pattern here: whenever the global order enters a new state of disarray, the movement sees a resurgence of interest, just enough to keep the crusade from dying out.” Katie Thornton reports from the 110th annual World Esperanto Congress in the Czech Republic. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

I wrote about the 1980s, Bernie Goetz, and NEW YAWK CITY for the June issue of @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“My fellow garbagemen and I scrub clean the stains of our consumer society. Our work behind the scenes keeps the whole edifice from crumbling—at least for now.” —Simon Paré-­Poupart harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

In the new @harpers: @wyatt_williams on cloud seeding, anti-weather modification militias, John von Neumann, and the Weather Channel harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@wyatt_williams @andrewmcockburn @kevlloydlozano An artist asks a writer to make a novel of his life in a new story by Kevin Brazil. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@wyatt_williams @andrewmcockburn Kevin Lozano (@kevlloydlozano) reviews three new books on Bernie Goetz’s dark legacy. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

In the June issue: Simon Paré-­Poupart on life as a garbageman, Katie Thornton on the dream of Esperanto, @wyatt_williams on weather modification, @andrewmcockburn on data center backlash, @kevlloydlozano on Bernie Goetz, and a story by Kevin Brazil. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…