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Author: Barbara Felder

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Vanity Foul
May 22, 2018
One hundred years after the puff piece floated into our consciousness, it is being swept aside by a new kind of celebrity profile.

Dendrophile Diplomacy
May 18, 2018
Like someone with a cat allergy as incurable as their love of cats, the Queen brings my dad out in a rash. So overwhelmed with joy is he when he sees his monarch that he promptly bursts into tears. Official birthdays, Queen’s speeches, London Fashion Week—he’s hysterical. ...

Antifascism and the Left’s Fear of Power
May 16, 2018
This article has been adapted from a talk delivered at Purdue University on April 18, 2018, hosted by the Purdue chapter of the Campus Antifascist Network. In the United States today people tend to squirm with profound discomfort, if not sneer with outright revulsion, when they ...

Giuliani’s Pooch
May 15, 2018
Reader: Are you someone who is angry in an inchoate way at the Trump administration as an institution but who would prefer to focus your anger like a laser beam on specific individuals? We at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to sell ...

What So Proudly We Hailed
May 11, 2018
At the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center last week I stood in one place for an hour watching a line of thousands inch along, quietly, cheerfully. They had come to see the president, the vice president, to see guns and lovers of guns, to see each other. I had come—just ...

Human Inhuman
May 09, 2018
Welcome to The Baffler’s agony corner, YOUR SORRY ASS, where Amber A’Lee Frost dispenses bossy, judgmental advice on how to live your life fairly, kindly, and with good humor. Send us your rants and pleas, please: [email protected]. Dear Your Sorry Ass, I know ...