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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 19, 2019

The meek shall inherit the Earth—after Bezos is done torching it. 

Hell is Other Internet People

Josie Thaddeus-Johns

July 17, 2019

On "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch

Private Fears in Public Places

Lida Maxwell

July 16, 2019

XY Chelsea veers between two narratives about Manning’s acts without deciding between them.

Children of the Wicker Man

Edward Millar,  John Semley

July 15, 2019

Roughly half a century after it first emerged, folk horror is back.

I Feel Better Now

Jake Bittle

July 11, 2019

Depressed by the burden of life under capitalism? There's an app for that!

Back When American Fascism Was Bad

Ed Burmila

July 10, 2019

On the Cancelling of Charles Lindbergh

Cruising Dystopia

Zachariah Webb

July 01, 2019

A new history of cruising fails to reckon with the material conditions that pushed gay sex from the public sphere.

No Pride in Police, No Police in Pride

Christopher Joseph Lee

June 28, 2019

The struggle to remove police from Pride is also a struggle to define the priorities of the queer movement itself.

Dinner with a War Criminal

Dave Denison

June 25, 2019

Revisiting Henry Kissinger’s murderous legacy in the era of Trump.

Andrew Yang’s War on Normal People

Adam Simpson

June 24, 2019

Yang is Silicon Valley’s answer to populism—and his UBI proposal is pure grift.

Ghosts of Europe Past

Niko Maragos

June 21, 2019

In The Capital, novelist Robert Menasse makes a case for the EU.

Death of a Political Junkie

Tom Carson

June 19, 2019

For political junkies, keeping up with Trump's latest atrocity has become an ordeal, not their favorite drug.