The Baffler

• TechCrunch recently hosted a meetup in Dubai for would-be startup entrepreneurs in the hopes of “disrupting” the Middle East. • Right in The Baffler’s own backyard, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is seeking to extend its “urban renewal authority” [read: ...

• Dressing for Success: In a post on creative work attire that calls to mind our fashion-themed current issue, Amber Stott lets us in on how urban farmers and foodies can be just as innovative as Silicon Valley startup bros. • Rahim Madhavji recounts the woes of the ...

• Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank talked bank regulation on WBAI’s Julianna Forlano Show this weekend. • Living in an area with high income inequality could be shortening your life, according to the New York Times. • In yet another round of waxing philosophical on ...

• The investigator becomes the investigated: NYU professor and human rights activist Andrew Ross, who wrote in The Baffler about his travels and travails fighting for migrant worker rights in the United Arab Emirates, is now apparently the target of a “murky ...

• Franco Moretti and Dominique Pestre apply quantitative linguistic analysis to World Bank Reports over the decades, in a piece called “Bankspeak.” An excerpt: “the semantic cluster of governance includes a series of terms which express a sense of compassion, ...

• Following the Forbes bracket for startup jargon, Re/code now has a guide to VC jargon, from “magnet skills” to “power alley” to “too native.” Woof. (Via Kyle Chayka.) • “Stung by recent polling that showed only a third of Boston ...

• Brokelyn continues to report on Brooklyn’s “preschool for adults,” for folks who are so oppressed by the ills of adult life that they are willing to spend several hundred dollars to join other similarly oppressed adults in games of musical chairs and ...

• Today in Bespoke: the best part of this New York Times article about high-end perfume designed and manufactured for you and you alone (which will cost you around $30,000 to $50,000 at Jean Patou) is the staged photo up top. • The dress code for the extras in Ted ...