ok , this be major league journalism and if you want a leftist progressive perspective it be about as good as it get . but what turn I off -- even though I still reluctantly read it -- be the level of cynicism that typically pervade its page . it ought to be call `` Sardonica . '' no matter what , they will criticize , they will find fault , they will give reason for despair . sometimes the editor rise out of it , as when they do a article on how capitalism might be save in which they include the brilliant thought of a number of well-spoken visionary . but in general the cynicism drag it down . there be also a kind of stylish decadence about it , a undercurrent of futility . I mean , when GWB be elect , all the conservative publication be like `` here be we chance . let 's make the most of it . '' Obama 's have not even serve a year yet and Harper 's have already run a feature article about how he be go to fail . with friend like that , who need ... Harper 's !