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November 18, 2015
• Over at In These Times, Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann reviews Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party. “The book, for all its ...

Daily Bafflements
November 17, 2015
• Last month Caitlin Dewey gave Washington Post readers the skinny on #femtube, an online agglomeration of women (especially young girls) with exorbitant YouTube followings. Today The Baffler’s Lucy Ellmann notes the boring religiosity with which these ...

Daily Bafflements
November 16, 2015
• University architecture has always laundered the reputations of “slave traders, ennobled gangsters, monk-robbers and tyrants’ stooges.” That time-honored tradition is carrying on into the twenty-first century, and not just at Harvard. ...

Daily Bafflements
November 13, 2015
• Johari Osayi Idusuyi, the woman prescient enough to bring a book (Claudia Rankine’s brilliant Citizen, at that) to a Donald Trump rally speaks to Jezebel. • On the Paris Review blog, Baffler regular Scott Beauchamp looks at the expressive vandalism of ...

Daily Bafflements
November 11, 2015
• “It’s, like, Laguna Beach meets Girls,” wrote Kristen Yoonsoon Kim over at Complex. She’s referring to the latest in straight-to-YouTube reality television, The Bedford Stop, a show about—wait for it—boring, ...

Daily Bafflements
November 10, 2015
• “The big secret of the innovation economy is that it’s not very innovative,” said Baffler mayor John Summers to Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source last week. Listen along here!  • You’ve heard the news: Modigliani’s ...

Daily Bafflements
November 09, 2015
• Welcome to “The Edge,” a low-hanging target for a magazine with a habit of blunting. Described as the “Uber of buildings,” this steely, app-responsive structure sounds like a giant game of musical chairs. No one has a ...

Daily Bafflements
November 06, 2015
• With the news that President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline proposal in what is being called a victory for environmentalists, it seems a good time to look back at Scott Beauchamp’s dissection of the “jobs vs. environment myth” here on ...

Daily Bafflements
November 05, 2015
• In case your kids are lacking appropriate role models, one venture capitalist is stepping up to offer them a tale of some true superheroes. In the Kickstarter pitch for Joe Floyd’s new graphic novel, he tells us that “young people grow up idolizing the ...

Daily Bafflements
November 04, 2015
• This is Amazon’s week of delusion. Yesterday, the company known for steadily cutting off booksellers’ and publishers’ oxygen opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, according to the Seattle Times. And on Thursday, that same company, whose ...

Daily Bafflements
November 03, 2015
• We’re proud to introduce the newest member of the Baffler brood—our twenty-ninth issue, “The Family That Preys Together”! Find it, and its all-too-healthy set of lungs, on newsstands! The online roll-out begins today with Kathleen ...

Daily Bafflements
November 02, 2015
• In Romania, imprisoned politicians, footballers, and pop stars are writing books to shorten their sentences, abusing a loophole in local law: Bad news, though! You won’t be able to lay your hands on these no doubt brilliant works—the publishers only tend ...