The Baffler

It’s never just one man. For Splinter, Clio Chang examines the revelations about long-time New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier and how the culture of the magazine countenanced his actions.   Sarah Polley is a treasure. The Cut has a great profile of actor/director Sarah ...

Wow who besides literally everyone saw this coming. After decades of gossip and backchannel talk, somebody finally reported out and published the story that Harvey Weinstein is an enormous fucking creep. He looks like overripe fruit, and makes young women watch him shower. Cool ...

Hugh Hefner died. You are Jonathan Chait’s enemy. Meme queens of the Fourth Reich.

“Can jokes bring down governments?” For Frieze, our own Jonathon Sturgeon wrote about the failures of protest art under Trump. “The election of Donald Trump was a traumatic event, but it does not justify protest art that bears the precise legibility and perishability of ...

Steve Bannon loves two things: racism and layering.

“I’m Sick Of Busting My Ass Doing Neo-Nazi Stuff Only To Have Some Masked Antifa Dweebs Get Credit As The Real Fascists.” A lot of very dumb and/or cynical people wrote about Antifa this week but the only piece worth your time is this one, from Clickhole.   “Pay me ...

“The do-nothing option is pretty gruesome.” As a hurricane heads toward Texas, take a minute to read this 2016 piece from the New York Times which outlines the potential devastation of just such a scenario.   Seriously though, everyone knew this was coming. The Texas ...

Man, what a terrible week. Just an unrelenting deluge of morally bankrupt people parroting stupid opinions. Usually we round up a few good and funny things we read this week but honestly, everything is so fucking bad right now. So, here are some statues that are better than ...