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Daily Bafflements
February 25, 2016
• Baffler contributor A.S. Hamrah has reviewed some of the year’s top films over at n+1, highlighting the delusional cheeriness of which American entertainment is made, from The Martian—“a children’s movie about how great science is”—to ...

Sympathy for the Devil
February 24, 2016
Readers, it’s been a momentous few weeks for our nation’s governing bodies, and in light of the political turmoil the country now faces, today I’ll be addressing your questions regarding the death of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Many of you ...

The White Knight Delusion
February 23, 2016
Even before full details emerged of the string of rapes and sexual assaults in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve—perpetrated by men described as predominately African or Arab in appearance—the news was met with a heady mix of horror, pure outrage, and vigorous ...

Daily Bafflements
February 22, 2016
• How do the teen subcultures of high school map onto those of the Internet? “Those blessed with early-onset hotness are drawn to YouTube,” writes Elspeth Reeve in the New Republic, “the fashionable and seemingly wealthy post to Instagram, the most ...

Daily Bafflements
February 18, 2016
• Rochester bafflers: don’t miss your chance to see contributing editor Jacob Silverman speaking at RIT’s MAGIC Center tonight! Jacob will be discussing privacy concerns in our digital age, the subject of his recent book, Terms of Service: Social Media and the ...

Power to the Pixels
February 18, 2016
It sure was a short “end of history.” Back in 1992, with the Berlin Wall leveled and Russia abruptly abdicating its self-appointed role as bureaucratic overseer of the historical dialectic, Francis Fukuyama and his neoconservative confreres surveyed the reconfigured world ...

Daily Bafflements
February 16, 2016
• Here’s Baffler contributing editor Susan Faludi on the feminist case against Bernie in the New York Times: • The frontman of Eagles of Death Metal, the band that was performing at the Bataclan when it was attacked in December, is calling for universal access to guns. ...

This Is Not a Simulation
February 16, 2016
Here’s what Gregory Merritt, a supervisor at the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services knew. He knew that eight-year old Gabriel Fernandez had a BB gun bullet lodged in his chest but that he never received medical care. He knew that the first grader had ...

Daily Bafflements
February 11, 2016
• “Holy Shit!” writes Gizmodo‘s Maddie Stone, on the discovery of the gravitational waves originally posited by Einstein in his 1916 general theory of relativity, which ends “a century-long hunt” for the spacetime ripples that scientists hope ...

Letting the Draft In
February 11, 2016
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]. Our world is riddled ...

Hillary’s Handlers: We Need Some Muscle Here
February 10, 2016
What is it that makes so much of our national politics reporting so grindingly, predictably awful? We’re in an election cycle that—for all its many shortcomings—features a genuine clash of ideas and core philosophies of government. How is it that a wide and ...

Daily Bafflements
February 09, 2016
• Today in millennials v. owls (we pick up with the owls telling the millennials off for supporting Sanders): • Bottled air surpasses “BLK water” as the year’s snake-oiliest product. Just watch this be-capped charlatan, wielding what ...