this magazine have be a terrific little treasure for at least 25 year . I start read it when they print a piece on Bert Lance call `` the money vanish '' during the early carter year . that piece along with a Larry Kramer article during the early day of the hiv epidemic be the two most compelling piece of US journalism I have read in forty year . how any reviewer -lrb- below -rrb- can see Harper 's as a `` leave Oriented Magazine '' be a bright mystery to I . any piece as scathing as `` the money vanish '' could not appear in a left-slanted magazine . the reader should be ready for a hard look at topic from another , challenge perspective . along with the Economist and the Atlantic , this be a magazine I would recommend as brain food for airplane trip and wait room etc. . bascially , Harper 's be the other end of the comtinuum from most of the print medium in the US now .