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01.22.2015

The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us, with Noam Chomsky

Cambridge, Massachusetts

01.22.2015

As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev goes on trial for the bombing of the Boston Marathon, Paris shakes from the assassination of French magazine journalists. “A New Era of Terrorism” has commenced, according to the New York Times. Governments emit loose talk of “fundamental values.” ...

12.18.2014

The Baffler’s Anti-Holiday Party, with Astra Taylor and Joanne McNeil

Cambridge, Massachusetts

12.18.2014

Those boozy office parties, awkward family dinners, and sundry punishments of the holiday season are coming. Where will you go to enjoy your old alienated self? The Baffler’s Anti-Holiday Party! Join the magazine’s staff and friends at the Lily Pad in Cambridge for ...

10.30.2014

Sickness & Pelf, The Baffler no. 26 release party

Cambridge, Massachusetts

10.30.2014

Our new issue is here, and you’re invited to join us for a toast at the Lily Pad in Cambridge. Maybe more than one, come to think of it, because we will be discussing George Scialabba’s strange and wonderful contribution, “The Endlessly Examined ...

10.30.2014

No Future for You: Pep Talks from The Baffler

Your town, USA

10.30.2014

Where can you go for tell-tale evidence that The Baffler’s contributors actually live and breathe, laugh and love, cajole and argue? For starters, check out the continent-spanning extravaganza we’ve put together to mark the fall ’14 publication of our ...

10.24.2014

Baffling our Ancestors: C. Wright Mills Then and Now

Santa Barbara, California

10.24.2014

In the ultra-civilized precincts of Santa Barbara, The Baffler’s John Summers dares to suggest that anarchism is all you need to run a magazine—that and a tradition to reformulate. Today, he discusses the life and work of the anarchist sociologist C. Wright Mills ...

10.22.2014

No Future for San Francisco

San Francisco, California

10.22.2014

If you’re going to do battle with the future, you must reckon with the gale winds of technofuturist banality that have whipsawed the otherwise lovely city of San Francisco. Founding editor Thomas Frank joins forces with his successor in The Baffler’s big chair, John ...

10.21.2014

No Future for Portland

Portland, Oregon

10.21.2014

Portland, native habitat of the new millennial hipster, and all-purpose punchline for basic-cable snarkfests, deserves a break. Join founding editor Thomas Frank, editor in chief John Summers, and political historian Rick Perlstein to unleash a fresh round of political invective ...

10.20.2014

No Future for Seattle

Seattle, Washington

10.20.2014

Seattle is both the seat of the Bill Gates empire and the home of the last century’s most confrontational anti-globalization protests. What better place to join Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank and Baffler contributing editor Rick Perlstein—who has fearlessly ...

10.13.2014

No Future for Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

10.13.2014

Ah, Chicago—city of broad shoulders, fabled town of toddling, and world-class capital of political corruption. Return with us to the home to The Baffler’s formative Hyde Park glory days to see just how the country’s maladies and distempers look from the dead center of ...

09.19.2014

No Future for You!

New York, New York

09.19.2014

Once upon a time, in the heyday of social prognostication, many Americans believed that gadget-related knowledge would surely yield immeasurable leaps forward in the progress of the human species. Yet as David Graeber argued in his famous Baffler essay “Of Flying Cars and the ...

09.13.2014

No Future for Journalism (and for Washington, D.C.)

Washington, D.C.

09.13.2014

What’s the matter with the way we think about national politics? Why, everything—and boy, are we ever glad you asked! Join founding editor Thomas Frank, senior editor Chris Lehmann, and erstwhile Baffler DC bureau chief Jim Newell for a rousing autopsy of the ...

09.13.2014

Feminism for What?

New York, New York

09.13.2014

Feminism for What? Equality in the Workplace after Lean In For over a year Sheryl Sandberg’s blockbuster of feminist self-help, Lean In, has been setting the agenda for leading-edge discussions about women, men, and work—and with Lean In for Graduates appearing this ...