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Daily Bafflements
December 08, 2015
• The field of “public-school consultancy” is booming, writes Alissa Quart in The Atlantic, an example of how, though “on the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites’ emphasis on words such as ...

Daily Bafflements
December 07, 2015
• Chefs’ memoirs, restaurant reviews, and cookbooks are everywhere, and yet the “creepy, and classist, and outdated” field of food writing—from Yelp to the New York Times—insistently ignores the millions of service employees who ...

Q & A with Evgeny Morozov and Dan Davies
December 07, 2015
A little while ago, director Dan Davies of Banyak Films in London materialized in The Baffler’s editorial HQ in Harvard Square with contributing editor Evgeny Morozov in tow, steered him to our admittedly tacky blue sectional couch, and, before a midday audience munching on ...

Daily Bafflements
December 04, 2015
• The Verge brings us a lovingly crafted five-part feature on The Baffler’s favorite presidential candidate, the transhumanist, coffin-bus-driving Zoltan Istvan. • Pantone has picked its 2016 colors of the year. The company made waves by selecting two colors, ...

Daily Bafflements
December 03, 2015
• Movie columnists Grierson and Leitch are leaving their perch at Deadspin for a new home at The New Republic, and recalling their previous flight from Yahoo, whose decline and fall our own Chris Lehmann charted in The Baffler. • Same old shit, brand new outrage? On ...

Thought Leaders as Loss Leaders
December 02, 2015
The breathless, investor-beguiling fable that the next iteration of the Web has to be the smart one has been around long enough now to qualify as a touching millenarian faith, like the quadrennial fiction of a “deep” GOP presidential field, or the diehard belief that the ...

Daily Bafflements
December 01, 2015
• Over at The New Republic Peter Moskowitz details how apps “enable neighborhoods to retain their real estate value without having any local value,” starting with the fact they make it possible for neighborhoods to “function without having to work at ...

Daily Bafflements
November 30, 2015
• After much begging and pleading with the Federal Aviation Administration to let it use drones to deliver packages, and setting up a special taskforce, Amazon hasn’t yet been able to find a safe way to do it. But that hasn’t prevented the company ...

Daily Bafflements
November 24, 2015
• “Fast casuals,” fast food chains of a perceived higher quality, such as Chipotle, haven’t yet been the focus of movements like the Fight for $15, but that’s not to say they treat their employees any better than franchises like McDonalds. ...

Daily Bafflements
November 23, 2015
• “Burn Down the House of Commons in Your Brand New Shoes” was Keith White’s ode to Details, which shuttered last week. And it started: May there be a place for it in paradise, where it will be ministered to by winged and be-haloed Orlando Blooms for ...

For Chyron Out Loud
November 20, 2015
Even amid the fast-multiplying agora of digital platforms, tweets, and instagrams that make up our new millennial mediaverse, one almost-touching platitude continues to transfix the sober lords of the establishment press: the impartial, stern-yet-blasé myth of purely ...