Baffler Archives: Outbursts

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Border Profiteers

Brendan O’Connor

July 01, 2019

Issue no. 46

On a recent sunny spring afternoon in Texas, a couple hundred Border Patrol agents, Homeland Security officials, and salespeople from a wide array of defense and security contractors gathered at the Bandera Gun Club about an hour northwest of San Antonio to eat barbecue and ...

Girl, Uninterrupted

Miya Tokumitsu

May 04, 2019

Issue no. 45

My So-Called Life pictured a slice of middle-class, Clinton-era America. Was it indeed a simpler time?

Heaven Can’t Wait

J.W. McCormack

May 04, 2019

Issue no. 45

Make no mistake: Christsploitation is exploitation cinema. Nowhere is there the faintest whiff of sincerity.

Checkers and Wreckers at the Daytona 500

Bryan Armen Graham

May 04, 2019

Issue no. 45

Nothing can prepare you for the enormousness of Daytona International Speedway as it drifts into view.

Believe in Something

Yasmin Nair

March 04, 2019

Issue no. 44

Woke campaigns aren’t focused on repairing structural inequities, but on amassing profit for corporate players.

The Innovator’s Agenda

John Patrick Leary

March 04, 2019

Issue no. 44

To redeem the free enterprise system, apostles of private property needed a vocabulary for emancipation through the market.

Empire of the Census

Ed Burmila

March 04, 2019

Issue no. 44

The history of the census has always been one of outright manipulation, politicization, and marginalization.

Tales from the Cryptos

Chloe Watlington

January 07, 2019

Issue no. 43

Cryptocurrency investors were enticed to Puerto Rico because the money was right and the risks were low.

Taming the Savage White Man

Gene Seymour

January 07, 2019

Issue no. 43

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

Lauren Oyler

January 07, 2019

Issue no. 43

This essay was due on November 6, 2018, but I didn’t finish it on time.

Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman

Leila McNeill

January 07, 2019

Issue no. 43

#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

J.W. McCormack

November 04, 2018

Issue no. 42

The campaign song is frequently the porch popular music crawls beneath before it rolls into the fetal position and dies.