Back-to-School Shopping with The Baffler

Hey kids! Are you excited to head off to college? Maybe it’s time to read Thomas Frank’s “Academy Fight Song” and see if that changes your mind.

No? You’re still going? Okay, well, if you want to start the year off right, by impressing your friends and alienating your teachers, you might want to bring to campus a bunch of Baffler books and this handsome bullshit-dozer tote bag to put them all in.

Or do you need some art to decorate your dorm-room walls, perhaps? Maybe you’d like to peruse some of the colorful and cheerfully negative offerings on hand from Baffler illustrator Brad Holland:

• “One of the Frequent Casualties of Higher Education…” (pictured at left)

• “Rome Didn’t Fall… it was Pushed” (for history majors)

• “Branding is for Cows” (for business majors)

• “Character Trumps Intelligence” (for everyone)

• “Point Counter Point” (ditto)

Or, if you’re feeling blue about the debt you’re taking on, for questionable returns, these beauties from cartoonist P.S. Mueller might help you and your pals, in a gallows-humor kind of way:

• “Mortgaged Future”

• “College Loan”

• “Intern”

• “Harvard, really?”

• “Money + Cars”

Oh, and we’ve also got T-shirts, mugs, past issues, and all kinds of other crap available at the Baffler store. Happy back-to-school shopping, all.