Author: Josh Fruhlinger

Columns

The Man Who Knew Nothing at All

Josh Fruhlinger

March 13, 2018

Living in a liberal fantasy is complicated.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 09, 2018

This week, TV finally scores a point, the New York Times opinion section hits bottom, and J.D. Vance vanishes.

Condo-Maximum

Kyle Paoletta

March 08, 2018

What's going on with bland, shoddy architecture in the wake of urban repopulation?

Foul Shot

Max B. Sawicky

March 07, 2018

By the standards of Facebook’s titans, co-founder Chris Hughes was an also-ran. His payout from early participation in the company’s launch, which stemmed from the good fortune of having been Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, was only $500 million. To his credit, ...

We Shall Be Terrible

Niela Orr

March 07, 2018

In its second season, Donald Glover's Atlanta strikes back at the system in small, subversive ways.

Go Tell It in the Mountain State

Ed Burmila

March 06, 2018

While big media interviewed more and more old white people about Trump, a historic strike went down in West Virginia.

The Tragedy of the Commons

Zachariah Webb

March 01, 2018

Common, a new housing startup, will order your toilet paper and “remove the annoyances” of a vibrant, shared community.

Love, Actually

Amber A’Lee Frost

February 28, 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, Two ...

The Feminist Horizon

Maximillian Alvarez

February 28, 2018

The International Women's Strike on March 8 is meant to be a “political strike”; that is, a strike whose concerns are not limited to the workplace.

Fear and Loathing in Cascadia

Britta Lokting

February 27, 2018

The bioregion at the intersection of liberal hipsterdom, ecology, and white nationalism.

Downward-Facing Capitalist Dogma

Josh Hall

February 27, 2018

What makes employee wellbeing schemes so distasteful is their attempt to disguise companies' base motivations with the language of care and health.

Boys Do Cry (and Shoot)

Jay Baron Nicorvo

February 26, 2018

As with the science supporting climate change, confirmation of masculine weakness is capable of inspiring stubborn cases of denial.