Checkers and Wreckers at the Daytona 500
Nothing can prepare you for the enormousness of Daytona International Speedway as it drifts into view.
Baffler Archives: Outbursts
Columns
Believe in Something
Woke campaigns aren’t focused on repairing structural inequities, but on amassing profit for corporate players.
The Innovator’s Agenda
To redeem the free enterprise system, apostles of private property needed a vocabulary for emancipation through the market.
Empire of the Census
The history of the census has always been one of outright manipulation, politicization, and marginalization.
Tales from the Cryptos
Cryptocurrency investors were enticed to Puerto Rico because the money was right and the risks were low.
Taming the Savage White Man
The western’s spirit is everywhere—not unlike one of the mid-twentieth century’s great augurs of the vanishing frontier, the ghost of Tom Joad.
Astrology Year Zero
This essay was due on November 6, 2018, but I didn’t finish it on time.
Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman
#MeToo has not much altered the science professions and it won’t until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt.
I’m Feeling Bad About America
The campaign song is frequently the porch popular music crawls beneath before it rolls into the fetal position and dies.
Party Monsters
Our most prominent television critics seem solely interested in defining the best and the greatest.
The Duckie and the Anal Plug
All plausible deniability aside, it was very clearly an anal plug.
If You’ve Got the Money
“Country” culture has ironically diverted itself into the ethical trashcans of both coasts.