Harper’s Publisher Standing Firm in His Defense of Print and Paywall

John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, is uncompromising in his support for print journalism.

Harper’s, which is nonprofit and funded by a foundation, has been available online for a decade. But to read anything, you must subscribe to the physical magazine too.

It remains to be seen whether history will judge him as a resolute visionary or a stubborn martyr.