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Nov 16, 2023 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 192 pages. 2023. “AND because the condition of Man . . . is a condition of War of every one against every one.” —Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Two years ago, in the last year of an ill-fated period of living in Washington, D.C., and pretending that I was interested in what lanyards had to say, I gave a talk ... . The baffler

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the wave of pogroms that claimed tens of thousands of Jewish lives in the Ukraine in 1919. The purpose of this article is to …A loathing for intellectuals was almost a defining characteristic of Trump’s base. At one point in the 2016 campaign, Trump told a crowd gleefully: “I love poorly educated people!”. He didn’t love them enough, apparently, to offer them more than a few crumbs in his huge, one-percent-friendly tax cut the following year.Abolishing the Prison of the Dead. To get to Hart Island, a hundred-acre sliver of land in the Long Island Sound, you must first make your way to City Island, a slightly larger sliver of land off the coast of the Bronx. City Island is a small …Fascism is on the march in these United States, and the painful truth is that it’s been feeding on all the social forces we’d naively entrusted to a feckless expert class. In recognition of this dramatically altered status quo, The Baffler gives you Issue 34, “The Snare of Preparation.”.Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 …Only Italians Will Understand This. Identity in an age of viral caricature. The Baffler. W. F. From their perch in Brooklyn, Sabino Curcio and Rocco Loguercio have become something like unofficial arbiters of Italian culture online. As the hosts of the podcast Growing Up Italian, which boasts a huge online following, as well …Downward Spiral. When the pregame show after the first pregame show ended, there were of course commercials. After that, nearly one hundred million Americans watched a quill pen being dipped into an inkwell. The camera pulled back to reveal the arm and powdered wig of the man holding the pen; his hand protrudes from a voluminous sleeve that ...The Betrayal of Democracy. “The Revolt of the Elites” was prescient, but not in the ways Steve Bannon claims. / Gage Skidmore. As if the rote rightist defilement of our public life weren’t enough of a cognitive trial on its own, the Trumpist putsch just got personal for me in a way I never anticipated: Steve Bannon, the president’s ...Feb 13, 2024 · Illusions of Safety. We’re in the midst of yet another bipartisan crime panic. Democratic mayors in San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are loudly demanding “law and order” while President Joe Biden calls for one hundred thousand more police officers on the streets. On the right, Republicans stoke conspiracy theories ... The Humanoid Stain. In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic Age. As the story goes, and there are many versions of it, they had been taking a walk in the woods near the town of Montignac when the dog accompanying them suddenly disappeared. A quick search revealed that their animal ... The Baffler Word Factory W o r d F a c t o r y. The first time I met someone who was gay, or rather, who I knew was gay—a crucial distinction —was in a gay bar. This was a time before smart phones, before I had access to the internet at home, and while I had heard that LGBT support groups existed in some high schools, they definitely didn ... With issue no. 70, The Baffler overcomes the dyspepsia induced by such gluttony to consider the contemporary consumable. The issue features reports regarding the psychoactive substances of (semi)legal choice, with Adrian Nathan West taking on the craft cocktail bar and Kathleen Alcott scrutinizing the weed restaurant: the former home to a ... A magazine of cultural criticism and commentary that explores the complexities of family and its uses in various contexts, from politics and business to health and culture. This …The greatest deception of crowdsourcing is the notion that there is a crowd at all. Sure, there may be thousands of people participating in the T-shirt design contest, driving cars for Lyft, filling out paid surveys, or helping a police force identify looters in CCTV footage, but they are not assembled as a crowd.The Father of All Secrets. In an equivocal recommendation letter to the dons at Oxford, R.S. Thompson, a housemaster at Sherborne School, Dorset, wrote that his former pupil David Cornwell “strikes …Everybody Hates Marty. The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center by Martin Peretz. 336 pages, Wicked Son. 2023. Look closely at any political project —an electoral campaign, an advocacy group, a small journal of ideas—and more often than not you’ll find that someone very rich …Dallas Killers Club. There were three horrible public executions in 1963. The first came in February, when the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul Karim Qassem, was shot by members of the Ba’ath party, to which the United States had furnished money and training. A film clip of Qassem’s corpse, held up by the hair, was shown on Iraqi …The Baffler Magazine. 45,682 likes · 3 talking about this. “The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge”. In Baffler no. 67, we survey then the ways in which the idea of the national interest creates what Trouillot calls “the bleak homogeneity” pushed by those fighting for the nation’s reins. As Lyta Gold discovers while scrutinizing conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg’s career of half-baked answers to the question “What makes America ... For Baffler no. 64, “Reality Minus,” our writers find enthusiasts for all the latest varieties of technological utopianism. Virtual reality? Life in the metaverse? As Jeffrey Sconce notes, you will be expected to participate in this brave new world, and to like it. “For those who can pay, Club Zuck may well offer a few hours of diverting ...Going Beyond the Veil. Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leila Slimani, translated by Sophie Lewis. Penguin Books, 176 pages. When I was growing up, my mother taught me … Ting Lin , Xuandi Wang. September 2, 2021. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, ... Unlike in politics, to be a heel in wrestling means to be willing to be hated by everyone. There is no electoral college in wrestling. And therein lies the beating heart of Donald Trump’s all-consuming internal conflict. His biggest fear is not going over as a babyface. But he is a natural heel. t. b. u. r. s. t. s. This spring, scientists and science writers alike celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize- winning physicist Richard Feynman. To mark the occasion, I sent out a tweet that included a quote from Feynman’s widely beloved memoir, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” in which he calls women in ... Ting Lin , Xuandi Wang. September 2, 2021. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, ... The Baffler, est. 1988, is a printed and digital magazine of art and criticism, now published six times a year. Our first cycle of four annual issues appeared in 2016. We’re headquartered in New York City, and delivered to subscribers in all fifty U.S. states and abroad. Contributing editors include Barbara Ehrenreich , Susan Faludi , Astra ... The greatest deception of crowdsourcing is the notion that there is a crowd at all. Sure, there may be thousands of people participating in the T-shirt design contest, driving cars for Lyft, filling out paid surveys, or helping a police force identify looters in CCTV footage, but they are not assembled as a crowd.Eat Crown. And finally, as if the American people needed another reminder of history’s arc bending toward the shitter, Discovery+ has announced it will air a limited-series sequel to the 2012 documentary Queen of Versailles, in which timeshare moguls Jackie and David Siegel renew their efforts to finish construction on their Florida dream …The Melting Pot was addressed to a Trumpian turn in the national politics of the early twentieth century, as the country convulsed with distinctly MAGA-style debates over curbs on immigration and the notion that blood-and-soil WASP identitarians of the age were pleased to call “100 Percent Americanism.”.Penguin, 400 pages. Peter Thiel learned about death when he was three years old. Sitting on a cowhide rug, young Peter asked his father where the rug had come from. A dead cow, his father replied. Peter was bursting with questions, but his father Klaus, a stern, pious German, had little patience for childish fancy. All animals die, he intoned.Give to The Baffler. $10. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. David Austin Walsh is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation is about the relationship between the far right and the conservative movement in the United States in the twentieth century.Yale University Press, 336 pages. In 1984, the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton described the state of his chosen field as being stuck between a “public relations branch of the literary industry” and “a matter wholly internal to the academies.”. Criticism, he said, was a discipline that had lost its social function, …Apr 20, 2023 · Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. Any. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Rhian Sasseen lives in New York. Her work has appeared in The Believer , BOMB , the Poetry Foundation , The Yale Review, and more. Questioning Authority & Other Forbidden Ideas. Cass Sunstein’s mind is a glorious reimagining-machine, reshaping everything it encounters. “Consider the question of whether people pay sufficient attention to their own futures,” he muses in his book, Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism. “This …Feb 8, 2024 · She effects a communion. In the end, piety and sensuality are two roads to the beautiful, synonymous with the divine. Love, too, is divine, and requires equal devotion. While cooking, Eugénie has a dizzy spell and later passes out in Dodin’s arms. Her collapse shakes him, unsettling their relationship. Back to the Land. Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990, ed. Jack Shoemaker, Library of America, 841 pp., $37.50. Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017, ed. Jack Shoemaker, Library of America, 859 pp., $37.50. An antimodernist is someone who stands in the path of progress and yells “Stop!”. Of course different antimodernists want to stop different things.The “glass girl” being pursued—who, like most heroines desired by the men in novels, is always a “girl,” never a woman—is as skinny as a Sally Rooney character, pale-skinned and sexily destructible. She is a fatal kind of blonde, a fantasy trapped not in aspic, but in ice. When in one of the book’s uncertain, looping timelines ...Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Daniel Luban is a writer and scholar teaching at the University of Chicago. He previously covered the American foreign policy right as a journalist for Inter Press Service.The gamut of stereotypes about black women theatergoers as uncouth, abrasive, and over-the-top comes through in this scene, and fellow spectators, almost all of them white, repeatedly tell Brenda to shut up. When she refuses, one of the men seated near Ghostface, the masked killer, steals his knife and stabs her. The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833. Art Is the New Puberty. At the root of David Cronenberg’s lifelong project is, of course, the flesh. And at the root of his engagement with the flesh is an apparent parting of the ways between evolution and reproduction. On the one hand, his most iconic characters—Seth Brundle in The Fly, Max Renn in Videodrome, the twin gynecologists in ...Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Amber A'Lee Frost is a writer and musician in Brooklyn. She is a contributor to Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy and False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton.A gender-nonconforming teen dressed in drag for Rocky Horror could—and, in some otherwise repressive regions, still can—meet a theater full of people who accepted their identity. The neon costumes and angular hairstyles of Liquid Sky defined New Wave-era bisexual chic and inspired the early-aughts electroclash scene.Art Is the New Puberty. At the root of David Cronenberg’s lifelong project is, of course, the flesh. And at the root of his engagement with the flesh is an apparent parting of the ways between evolution and reproduction. On the one hand, his most iconic characters—Seth Brundle in The Fly, Max Renn in Videodrome, the twin gynecologists in ...Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Daniel Luban is a writer and scholar teaching at the University of Chicago. He previously covered the American foreign policy right as a journalist for Inter Press Service.The first fictions appeared some 200 million years ago in the Mesozoic minds of mammals and birds. Small creatures, newly differentiated, they stole whatever sleep they could under the rule of the dinosaurs, and there in burrows or high in nests they fitfully hallucinated experiences that never happened. They dreamed.a. c. t. o. r. y. For four months —four banal yet torrid months—I was a near-invisible custodian of the New York City micro-neighborhood known as Dimes Square. Chances are you either know exactly what I’m talking about, or you have literally no idea (in the case of the latter, enjoy your sanity). In material terms, …A Baker’s Secrets. In the annals of food and memory, I know of no story so peculiar as the mysterious disappearance—now more than three decades ago—of the Guerrilla Cookie from the shelves of Midwestern food co-ops. A confection with a cult following, it rose to popularity in Madison, Wisconsin, in the …The Baffler Magazine. 45,682 likes · 3 talking about this. “The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge”Teenage Pricks. A bit of symbolic generational warfare has always suffused American politics, with various cliques of self-appointed “adults in the room” dismissing challengers to the status quo as immature, idealistic, or juvenile. But when it comes to figuring out what This Whole Trump Thing really means, actual juveniles are reading at ...The last in the series was the world revolution of 1968—which, much like 1848, broke out almost everywhere, from China to Mexico, seized power nowhere, but nonetheless changed everything. This was a revolution against state bureaucracies, and for the inseparability of personal and political liberation, whose most lasting …The Life and Death of the Dream Job. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe. Bold Type Books, 432 pages. The legal age to start working in Ohio is fourteen, but my two best friends and I found ways to get jobs before that anyway. The Baffler is an American magazine of cultural, political, and business analysis. Established in 1988 by editors Thomas Frank and Keith White, it was headquartered in Chicago , Illinois , until 2010, when it moved to Cambridge , Massachusetts . Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Amber A'Lee Frost is a writer and musician in Brooklyn. She is a contributor to Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy and False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Ties That Bind. IN THE WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1990), the late, great Barbara Ehrenreich looked back on the rise of “aggressively ‘profamily’” activists of the 1980s. “They have invoked ‘the family’ when they trample on the rights of those who hold actual families together, that is, women,” she wrote. Feb 17, 2023 · The episode invokes the history of artists who responded in kind to their naysayers, such as the time Joan Didion lit a bag of ordure outside Pauline Kael’s brownstone, rang the doorbell, and ran away cackling; Stephen King’s habit of prank calling Harold Bloom; and when Stanley Kubrick force-fed Gene Shalit his own pet lobster, David Pincher. This question has become increasingly difficult to answer, living as we do in a society that offers boundless opportunities for men and women to expose themselves (in all dimensions of that word) as never before, to commit what are essentially self-invasions of privacy. Although this is a new phenomenon, it has become as ubiquitous as it is ...Downward Spiral. When the pregame show after the first pregame show ended, there were of course commercials. After that, nearly one hundred million Americans watched a quill pen being dipped into an inkwell. The camera pulled back to reveal the arm and powdered wig of the man holding the pen; his hand protrudes from a …The Baffler, a journal of iconoclastic wit and cultural analysis, relaunched its Web site today with full access to its archives from 1988 to the present.The Problem with Muzak. “Anything you want. Anyone you want. Anywhere you want. Anyway! Anyway!”. Imagine you are in an airport, and you have forgotten to eat lunch. It’s a mistake you will pay for with a dull, expensive dinner. Hungry, meandering, you happen upon one of those iPads that line every other table, a machine that allows you ...War, he wrote, is the health of the state.”. In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class. The techniques of division mutate like a virus. In battles over unionization, the ...For advising a select group of teens on wangling their way into top-tier colleges, Rim charges $1,500 an hour. He is twenty-three. As is usual for admissions consultants, Rim spends a lot of time managing expectations, pruning lists of target colleges, reviewing essays, quelling nerves.The Baffler, a journal of iconoclastic wit and cultural analysis, relaunched its Web site today with full access to its archives from 1988 to the present.A magazine of cultural criticism and commentary that explores the complexities of family and its uses in various contexts, from politics and business to health and culture. This …Savings-and-loan banks, also called building-and-loan societies, or “thrifts,” were once upon a time the cornerstone of the American mortgage market. Although originating in the nineteenth century, the modern thrift was created in the 1930s as a New Deal reform meant to restore trust in the financial system.Any. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Alex V Green is a writer and legal researcher based in Toronto. Their work deals with issues of identity and …The Problem with Muzak. “Anything you want. Anyone you want. Anywhere you want. Anyway! Anyway!”. Imagine you are in an airport, and you have forgotten to eat lunch. It’s a mistake you will pay for with a dull, expensive dinner. Hungry, meandering, you happen upon one of those iPads that line every other table, a machine that allows you ...The Humanoid Stain. In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic Age. As the story goes, and there are many versions of it, they had been taking a walk in the woods near the town of Montignac when the dog accompanying them suddenly disappeared. A quick …In D.C. on Saturday, bodies flooded the heart of empire, choking the arteries of power with a radically diverse, and historically large, crowd. For hours, we affirmed Palestinian life, denounced both Zionism and anti-Semitism, indicted Israel for its atrocities, and excoriated American complicity.The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.LIVING. Skinny and impeccable, Bill Nighy in Living is the opposite of Brendan Fraser in The Whale, but he too is lonely and dying.This unnecessary remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), scripted by the British-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, retells the story of a quiet bureaucrat who learns he only has a few months to live.It takes place in …And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Laura Mauldin is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut. She is currently writing a book that tells the stories of disabled people and caregivers as they try to survive in an ableist America.Submissions. Do you have the negative capability to contribute to The Baffler? Send your pitch through this page. Muckraking, stem-winding, take-downing, doomsaying, and …Pure Colour by Sheila Heti.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 224 pages. Everything in Pure Colour, the new novel by Sheila Heti, vibrates with instability, with the shimmering frisson of one teetering on the edge.It seems only right, for a book that begins with the proposition that God is an artist and we are living in his soon-to-be-discarded first draft, …The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art. Through its six annual print issues (and daily online content) it skewers every facet of our debauched social order. Founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank as “the journal that blunts the …Dallas Killers Club. There were three horrible public executions in 1963. The first came in February, when the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul Karim Qassem, was shot by members of the Ba’ath party, to which the United States had furnished money and training. A film clip of Qassem’s corpse, held up by the hair, was shown on Iraqi …This year marks the 90th anniversary of the wave of pogroms that claimed tens of thousands of Jewish lives in the Ukraine in 1919. The purpose of this article is to …Village Atheists, Village Idiots. Something has gone badly wrong with our atheists. All these self-styled intellectual titans, scientists, and philosophers have fallen horribly ill. Evolutionist faith-flayer Richard Dawkins is a wheeling lunatic, dizzy in his private world of old-fashioned whimsy and bitter neofascism.American Fables. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pages. 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The Melting Pot was addressed to a Trumpian turn in the national politics of the early twentieth century, as the country convulsed with distinctly MAGA-style debates over curbs on immigration and the notion that blood-and-soil WASP identitarians of the age were pleased to call “100 Percent Americanism.”.Teenage Pricks. A bit of symbolic generational warfare has always suffused American politics, with various cliques of self-appointed “adults in the room” dismissing challengers to the status quo as immature, idealistic, or juvenile. But when it comes to figuring out what This Whole Trump Thing really means, actual juveniles are reading at ... Ting Lin , Xuandi Wang. September 2, 2021. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, ... More than a roll call of the victims of surveillance capitalism, Zuboff’s new book seeks to decode its broader historical meaning. In a single sentence, it’s this: “Google invented and perfected surveillance capitalism in much the same way that a century ago General Motors invented and perfected managerial capitalism.”.In the wildly popular action film Taken (2008), the daughter of the hero (played by Liam Neeson) is snatched by Albanian sex traffickers while on holiday in Paris. Taken typifies many real anti-trafficking campaigns, presenting trafficking as a context-free evil, a kidnap at random that could happen to anyone, anywhere.For advising a select group of teens on wangling their way into top-tier colleges, Rim charges $1,500 an hour. He is twenty-three. As is usual for admissions consultants, Rim spends a lot of time managing expectations, pruning lists of target colleges, reviewing essays, quelling nerves.Deepest Gondolances. In a week that saw Canadian wildfires turn the air a sprightly yellow and ensconce the New York metropolitan area in a malevolent mist, closing businesses and blighting eyes, color seems in revolt worldwide: on Sunday, a Venice canal turned fluorescent green. Algae blooms and ecoterrorism …Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 …Bad Religion. The highway to Wisteria Campground curves blindly in the telltale fashion of an old dirt road repurposed to suit the demanding pace of modern life. Round one such corner and a sign emerges in the tree line: democrats destroying america, it declares, god help us. Below it, Smokey the Bear politely …Nov 17, 2023 · a. c. t. o. r. y. In the weeks since Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip began, following the October 7 Hamas attacks, Republican presidential hopefuls have tripped over themselves to promise voters that, if elected, they will ensure not a single Palestinian refugee is resettled in the United States. “Not all of them are Hamas ... Teenage Pricks. A bit of symbolic generational warfare has always suffused American politics, with various cliques of self-appointed “adults in the room” dismissing challengers to the status quo as immature, idealistic, or juvenile. But when it comes to figuring out what This Whole Trump Thing really means, actual juveniles are reading at ...Back to the Land. Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990, ed. Jack Shoemaker, Library of America, 841 pp., $37.50. Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017, ed. Jack Shoemaker, Library of America, 859 pp., $37.50. An antimodernist is someone who stands in the path of progress and yells “Stop!”. Of course different antimodernists want to stop different things.Penguin, 400 pages. Peter Thiel learned about death when he was three years old. Sitting on a cowhide rug, young Peter asked his father where the rug had come from. A dead cow, his father replied. Peter was bursting with questions, but his father Klaus, a stern, pious German, had little patience for childish fancy. All animals die, he intoned.Jan 8, 2024 · Throttling pink dreams of night raids. Rats run. Narcan is low. Dogs follow you on the street and men say HOT and HOT seconds before late summer monsoon. Clang at 9, clang at 12. Nature is this repeating joke: this vow, this house, this crown, this yoke. Ting Lin , Xuandi Wang. September 2, 2021. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, ... Jul 21, 2014 · Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 pages made of ... The Baffler is delighted to announce that J. W. McCormack is our new fiction editor. He will oversee the relaunch of the magazine’s fiction section with new stories in each bimonthly print issue as well as online fiction offerings every month. He joins Nicole Terez Dutton, The Baffler ’s poetry editor, to round out an …The episode invokes the history of artists who responded in kind to their naysayers, such as the time Joan Didion lit a bag of ordure outside Pauline Kael’s brownstone, rang the doorbell, and ran away cackling; Stephen King’s habit of prank calling Harold Bloom; and when Stanley Kubrick force-fed Gene Shalit his …Teenage Pricks. A bit of symbolic generational warfare has always suffused American politics, with various cliques of self-appointed “adults in the room” dismissing challengers to the status quo as immature, idealistic, or juvenile. But when it comes to figuring out what This Whole Trump Thing really means, actual juveniles are reading at ... Subscriptions. We’re making it easier than ever to join The Baffler ’s far-flung disaffiliates program, which currently has subscribers across the world. When you subscribe, you’ll receive five issues of commentary on life and letters in America. That’s a full year of incisive and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural ... Abolishing the Prison of the Dead. To get to Hart Island, a hundred-acre sliver of land in the Long Island Sound, you must first make your way to City Island, a slightly larger sliver of land off the coast of the Bronx. City Island is a small …The Baffler, the magazine of cultural criticism founded under the tagline “The journal that blunts the cutting edge,” was a talisman of a certain sort of left-leaning person throughout the 1990s, its self-consciously retro cover spotted in graduate student apartments and editors’ offices and independent bookstores (not to mention at about 1:26 into the … The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833. The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.What Happened in Vegas. Lasting for three straight days, the grand opening of Caesars Palace in August of 1966 was a spectacle unlike any the city of Las Vegas had ever seen. The owners of the casino, a brash Southern hotelier and gambler named Jay Sarno and his straight-laced partner Stan Mallin, dropped over a …As an aide to Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, and a leader of the grassroots movement Sensible Transportation Options for Portland (STOP), Buel played a critical role in defeating the Mount Hood Freeway. (In 1972, the thirty-two-year-old Goldschmidt became the youngest mayor of a major American city. At the age of thirty-nine, he became the youngest U ...More than a roll call of the victims of surveillance capitalism, Zuboff’s new book seeks to decode its broader historical meaning. In a single sentence, it’s this: “Google invented and perfected surveillance capitalism in much the same way that a century ago General Motors invented and perfected managerial capitalism.”.Israel’s Permit Regime. An Israeli economy without Palestinians? Twenty-six days into Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli megadeveloper Haim Feiglin stood on the grounds of an incomplete residential tower near Tel Aviv. Ever since the Hamas attack of October 7, construction has stood …The “special snowflake” jeer comes, originally, from the 1996 novel Fight Club, the film of which is every yammering internet man-baby’s favorite piece of ultra-violent Randian misogynist eye candy, where the right and proper answer to boredom and alienation is to take your shirt off and pummel a stranger.Pure Colour by Sheila Heti.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 224 pages. Everything in Pure Colour, the new novel by Sheila Heti, vibrates with instability, with the shimmering frisson of one teetering on the edge.It seems only right, for a book that begins with the proposition that God is an artist and we are living in his soon-to-be-discarded first draft, …Political Fictions. “Our literary elites may all come from the same expensive institutions,” Jessa Crispin writes in issue 62 of The Baffler, “but they are all working stiffs in their own minds, pretending to feel solidarity with the working classes.”. Those literary elites, she writes, have helped flatten contemporary literature into a ... Land Ho. A woman prepares a snack for her family while her youngest child, an eight-month-old named Mabel Mae, looks on from her high chair. She pours milk into a Dutch oven from a glass jar almost as big as the baby girl beside her, heats it to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and mixes in citric acid. Dec 11, 2023 · a. c. t. o. r. y. In May of this year, a group of far-right agitators attacked a small tent encampment on Dublin’s Sandwith Street. They hurled eggs and vicious abuse at counter protesters and set the camp alight, destroying the makeshift shelters of homeless refugees who’d been driven to the street in the first place by the state’s ... The Baffler, a journal of iconoclastic wit and cultural analysis, relaunched its Web site today with full access to its archives from 1988 to the present.Nov 16, 2023 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 192 pages. 2023. “AND because the condition of Man . . . is a condition of War of every one against every one.” —Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Two years ago, in the last year of an ill-fated period of living in Washington, D.C., and pretending that I was interested in what lanyards had to say, I gave a talk ... Early on, Kaur’s immigrant-themed work attracted women of color looking for representation; after the viral photograph, young white women caught up in the tide of fourth-wave feminism and the solipsism of the Trump era flooded in to read her sage self-affirmations.Dec 11, 2023 · a. c. t. o. r. y. In May of this year, a group of far-right agitators attacked a small tent encampment on Dublin’s Sandwith Street. They hurled eggs and vicious abuse at counter protesters and set the camp alight, destroying the makeshift shelters of homeless refugees who’d been driven to the street in the first place by the state’s ... The episode invokes the history of artists who responded in kind to their naysayers, such as the time Joan Didion lit a bag of ordure outside Pauline Kael’s brownstone, rang the doorbell, and ran away cackling; Stephen King’s habit of prank calling Harold Bloom; and when Stanley Kubrick force-fed Gene Shalit his …Feb 13, 2024 · Illusions of Safety. We’re in the midst of yet another bipartisan crime panic. Democratic mayors in San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are loudly demanding “law and order” while President Joe Biden calls for one hundred thousand more police officers on the streets. On the right, Republicans stoke conspiracy theories ... A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by The Nation and “form-bending, disobedient” by New York magazine. a. c. t. o. r. y. Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual compensation in lieu of …The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.January 20, 2020. In DESIGNS FOR LIVING, columnist Marlowe Granados dispenses sound advice in a noisy world. Send your rants and pleas to [email protected] for Marlowe’s consideration. Sweet, sweet, agony Aunt Marlowe: I exited a long-term relationship and have missed the cultural ...Queer Memories in Beijing. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, an …Give to The Baffler. $10. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. David Austin Walsh is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation is about the relationship between the far right and the conservative movement in the United States in the twentieth century.More than a roll call of the victims of surveillance capitalism, Zuboff’s new book seeks to decode its broader historical meaning. In a single sentence, it’s this: “Google invented and perfected surveillance capitalism in much the same way that a century ago General Motors invented and perfected managerial capitalism.”.We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on early universe cosmology, dark matter, and Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. Blink - Online identity & payment technologies.Questioning Authority & Other Forbidden Ideas. 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