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May 10, 2016
• Since Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In came out in 2013, a slew of “Lean Out” polemics have called out Sandberg’s short-sighted approach and her hasty gloss over issues like paid leave. We at The Baffler believe the first and best of these was ...

Daily Bafflements
May 09, 2016
• Last year in the Baffler, Neda Semnani wrote the story of her parents, a pair of Iranian revolutionaries, and of their lives in the lead-up and aftermath of the 1979 revolution. Under the repressive “revolutionary” rule of the new ...

Daily Bafflements
May 04, 2016
• Here at The Baffler, we’re big fans of scorched earth tactics. Give us a bridge; we’ll burn it, and trample merrily on its ashes. So, we were delighted to see that Jessa Crispin of Bookslut is taking the same approach to the ...

Daily Bafflements
May 02, 2016
• The news that George Mason University has renamed its law school for recently-deceased racist homophobe Antonin Scalia may not come as a surprise to anyone following the school’s ideological agenda—but it’s as good a reason as any to revisit Amber ...

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April 25, 2016
• Thou shalt not decorate thy megachurch with a tacky water feature! So reads the epistle of Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann to the Americans, or rather his new book The Money Cult, published by Melville House next month. American churches have ...

Daily Bafflements
April 22, 2016
• Snapchat is under fire for a “Bob Marley” filter designed to allow users to style themselves after the reggae great, blackface and all. Even through the 4/20 haze (yes, that’s why the company decided to memorialize Marley in the first place), users were ...

Daily Bafflements
April 21, 2016
• Brooklyn Bafflers: Poet Jennifer Nelson will be reading tonight at the Brooklyn Public Library. Two of Nelson’s weird, brilliant poems appeared in Baffler no. 29, where she reminded us “It’s crude to claim our technology / moralizes that of the past: ...

Daily Bafflements
April 20, 2016
• Happy 4/20 everyone! Since Donald Trump just won the New York primary, this might be an opportune moment to go hot box the Trump Tower. To be clear, we’re not endorsing this idea per se, but we would laugh heartily at the videos that came out of ...

Daily Bafflements
April 19, 2016
• Last year Procter & Gamble harnessed the magical power of deodorant in their “Mean Stinks!” bullying campaign, as documented by Baffler managing editor Lindsey Gilbert in issue 28. Now that ever-loving, ever–community focused corporation is taking ...

Daily Bafflements
April 18, 2016
• Here’s Tom Frank in The Guardian, on the recent slurry of articles claiming that Bill Clinton’s draconian, racist 1994 crime bill didn’t cause mass incarceration: In her “Bad Behavior” column, Natasha Vargas-Cooper wrote about this year’s Supreme Court ...

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April 14, 2016
• Is the new, small-batch milk trend Uber for dairy? As Time reports, “Maybe it was inevitable: The small-batch, locally-made foodie trend that’s swept through everything from beer to chocolate to poultry is now reaching a new frontier: the humble milk jug.” ...

Daily Bafflements
April 13, 2016
• Today in the slow, painful death of irony: Silicon Valley CEOs have been promising to “fix the world”—or, really, save us peons from ourselves—for a while. But thanks in part to the rapid rise of billionaire real estate mogul and ...