The Baffler

Hey there yogis, foodies, and babies, did you miss this week on the Baffler blog? Well read on, you insurance-actuaries, you truthers, you Norwegian rock stars and zombies. We’ll help catch you up. • This week on the occasion of some #yoga #news (#yoganews), we published a ...

  • Via Electric Literature and Compound Interest, the chemistry of book smells, explained. • Today in Billionaires, and also Today in Startling Headlines, from The Christian Post: “9,000 Police Storm Church Looking for Billionaire South Korean Pastor Yoo Byung-Eun ...

• What’s next for Eric Cantor? He announced on Wednesday that he’s stepping down as House Majority Leader after a surprising (or not-so-surprising?) upset in the Virginia primaries this week. Tell us what you think Cantor’s next gig will be by writing to us on Twitter ...

• From BBC Radio and The Independent comes an account of the “disastrous” meeting of Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot in 1964, and why it went so horribly wrong. “If you meet your hero in real life you will have an unrealistic expectation based on a facet of themselves that ...

• Today in Billionaires: billionaire Carl Icahn is excited about his investment in the dollar-store industry, and is discussing “strategies to enhance shareholder value.” How kitschy! • In somewhat related news, Alex Park reveals the moment in history when hobby shops ...

Stop. Your priorities are all wrong. / Photo by Horia Varlan. • New York’s state legislature only has two weeks left this session, and probably won’t have time to consider new laws on the minimum wage or campaign finance issues. Newsday reports that ...

Cartoon by P. S. Mueller • This week, we had occasion to re-visit two great pieces from the archives: Hussein Ibish’s appreciation of Marquis de Sade’s political legacy (for Sade’s 274th birthday, obviously), and Jim Newell’s salvo about ...

This face-cheese doesn’t make itself, you know. / Photo by Claire P. • From The Baffler’s own Chris Lehmann in In These Times, a look at Whole Foods’s “artisanal union-busting” in Chicago. • Glenn Greenwald writes at First Look that ...