I agree about Harper's. At one time, there was a wide range of viewpoints expressed in the magazine: libertarian, liberal, conservative. Can you believe that Fred Reed and Tom Bethell were once Washington Editors for the magazine? Or that PJ O'Rourke wrote articles for it? Or George Gilder, Michael Novak, Paul Craig Roberts, Peter Brimelow, Jude Wanniski, Norman Podhoretz, Ben Wattenberg, and James Q. Wilson? No more. Such is Lewis Lapham's current influence on the magazine.
BTW, Lapham once wrote a Carter-bashing article for American Spectator