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Annotation, Art — August 29, 2017, 1:24 pm
1: As 12,000 members of the National Guard rushed to the scene and hundreds more volunteers joined the relief efforts, President Trump tweeted: “Thanks!” Read more…
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Number of “real close personal friends” on President Bush’s computerized list of correspondents:
Women eat twice as many chocolate kisses when they are kept in a clear container on their desks than when they are in opaque containers.
Trump then tweeted that because of the cost of health care for transgender soldiers he would ban them from serving in the U.S. military, which spends an estimated ten times as much on medications that treat erectile dysfunction.
Annotation, Art — August 29, 2017, 1:24 pm
1: As 12,000 members of the National Guard rushed to the scene and hundreds more volunteers joined the relief efforts, President Trump tweeted: “Thanks!” Read more…
Weekly Review — August 28, 2017, 5:19 pm
Days before the Mexican government offered to send aid for the victims of a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in eastern Texas and caused catastrophic flooding in up to 50 counties and drove an estimated 30,000 people from their homes, one-time pornographic-film extra and current U.S. president Donald Trump issued a pardon for Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County who, during his 24-year tenure, held inmates in Korean War tents that reached temperatures of 141 degrees; referred to those tents as a “concentration camp” and the place “where all the Mexicans are”; called complaints from Latinos …
Art, Monday Gallery — August 28, 2017, 3:40 pm
“Seven Steps of Overlapping Beauty,” a photograph by Scarlett Hooft Graafland, which is on view through September 2 as part of the exhibition No Lemon No Melon, at Flowers Gallery, in New York City © Scarlett Hooft Graafland. Courtesy Flowers Gallery, London and New York City
Weekly Review — August 22, 2017, 11:59 am
The moon passed in front of the sun, casting a shadow over the United States. A police helicopter in Virginia fell from the sky, a U.S. destroyer collided with an oil tanker, discussions in the White House of launching a “preemptive war” against North Korea increased, and hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis armed with assault rifles and clubs held a nighttime march in Charlottesville, Virginia, gathering with torches around a statue of slave-owner and Confederate general Robert E. Lee and chanting that they will not be replaced by Jewish people. Read more…
Art, Monday Gallery — August 21, 2017, 3:34 pm
“A Few Matters of Form,” a painting by Maira Kalman, whose work is on view this week at Julie Saul Gallery, in New York City © Maira Kalman. Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City
"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis."
© 2017 Harper’s Magazine Foundation. September 2017 cover illustration by Tavis Coburn