The Baffler

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 ...

Pictured: not enough. / Photo by peddhapati • Forty-five cents questioned as a meaningful improvement in one’s quality of life. • Relevant woman old, says irrelevant old man. • Safe sex probably a good idea for people who have sex for a living, every day, all day; ...

• Today in Billionaires: Not a billionaire, but you want to dress like one? Well how about trying on some new duds by Italian luxury brand Billionaire? No one will be able to see the label on the inside of your clothes, but you’ll know it’s there, and it will make you feel ...

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• Ned Resnikoff reports on the 138 arrests at the protest at the Oakbrook, Illinois headquarters of McDonald’s on Wednesday, over at MSNBC.com. • Traditional wealth advisers just don’t understand [millionaire] kids today, explains Reuters. • After the New York Times ...

• Fact: every single time you put the word “bespoke” into a Google News search you will be rewarded with something ridiculous. Today in Bespoke: this press release-as-news-article, headlined “Hope of Rolls Royce to make a bespoke picnic basket.” • Trickster James ...

• Here are some highly enjoyable illustrated Martin Luther insults by Peter Mann, including such timeless classics as, “You stink like devilish filth flung into Germany” and “You are like mouse-droppings in the pepper.” • WBEZ reported earlier this month that ...

• Calling all of you “Millennial Marxists” looking for love—there’s an online dating site just for you. Presenting the radical left’s answer to OkCupid, via Critical Theory: OkComrade. • David Cole reviews Robert A. Ferguson’s new book Inferno, on the “anatomy ...