The Baffler

• The police have brilliant new technology to disappear us with, literally. Their new X-ray vans can see right through buildings and trucks, and New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton won’t answer whether they will use them to see through people: ...

• Here’s The New Yorker getting in on a major trend by profiling everyone’s favorite hair-shirted Baffler contributing editor, George Scialabba. (Apparently, the do we threw him for his retirement was “campy,” “quaint,” and “extravagant.” Very ...

• Today in innovation trials and (mainly) tribulations: pity the poor startup tycoons behind the Skarp Laser Razor (say that three times fast.) Their much-ballyhooed razor, which promised customers they’d never need to buy blades again, raised $4 million on Kickstarter ...

• All San Francisco’s chickens have come home to roost! The rapidly gentrifying and tech-savvy city has invented an app to report homeless people. They’ve called it “Snitch.” We’ll say no more.  • Feeling unfortunate, ...

• Persecution of Christians has taken a number of different forms over the years, from being burned alive, stoned to death, crucified (both then and now), and perhaps the most sinister of them all, asked awkward questions over brunch. Yes, that’s ...

• Fashion mavens rejoice: for all your trend-watching needs, the New Yorker‘s got the lowdown on “achievement beards” (think George Clooney, not ZZ Top.) For more on the evolution of our throwback fashion craze, check out Baffler contributing editor ...

• Missed our celebration of George Scialabba at the Brattle Theatre last month? No worries, the appreciations of George’s critical gifts keep rolling in. Here’s a lovely one from The Chronicle of Higher Education. If that whets your appetite, you’re in ...

• If you passed by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Monday, you likely would have heard the clamor of protestors raising a fuss about the long-dead French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Donning signs reading “God Hates Renoir” and Treacle ...