The Baffler

• San Francisco’s “Bespoke Donuts” offers donuts in unusual flavors (which are, we hope, served by these bow-tied and suspendered fellows)—flavors like pulled pork, herb and hummus, and chicken pot pie. How unappetizingly hip. • High-cost lenders are finding ways to ...

Nope, no fancy coffees for you, Seattle. / Photo by runner 310. • A $15 minimum wage doesn’t sound so high after all when the AP calculates that a full-time job with that hourly pay (about $31,000 a year) still only buys the very basics in Seattle and many other ...

• Slavoj Žižek on teaching: “I hate students,” he said, “they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.” And on office hours in particular: “I can’t imagine a worse experience than some idiot comes there and starts to ask you questions, which is still ...

• Today in Billionaires: heiress Alexis DeJoria is gaining some attention lately, not for her bucks, but for her skills as a professional drag racer. • If the EPA’s proposed plan to cut power plant emissions by 30 percent by 2030 is implemented, it “could very well be ...

• We started the week off with two celebrations of the Class of 2014, with a commencement speech by Siddhartha Deb to graduates at the New School, and some news about Sheryl Sandberg’s visit to Harvard. Her commencement speech this week was accompanied by a visit from ...

• Plans for more living-wage protests against Walmart are underway. “The company made a $16bn profit last year; the Walton family, which owns more than half of Walmart, is worth almost $145bn,” the Guardian reports. “The company pays 825,000 workers, around two-thirds of ...

Yawn. / Photo by Shine 2010. • Gaby Holzwarth was a street-busking violinist until she got discovered by several tech executives in Palo Alto. She now plays regularly for Silicon Valley house parties, on private jets, and at tech conferences like yesterday’s Code ...

At Harvard’s commencement ceremony today, the Class Day speaker is Facebook COO and Chief Lean-er In Sheryl Sandberg. She’s already had a lot of practice with commencement speeches; she has delivered them in past years at Barnard and the Harvard Business School, among other ...