The Irrevocable Step
John Brown and the historical novel.
Baffler Archives: Salvos
Columns
Brewed Awakening
Starbucks workers demand that management live up to its vaunted liberal values
A Woman is a Woman?
Lillian Faderman’s “revolution” is ultimately assimilation.
Apostasy for All
There is no clean-cut patriotism to be reclaimed or redeemed.
Airborne Toxic Events
Aerosol transmission was never merely a medical question.
My Study Hates Your Study
Consider a world without science and technology.
Great Sinners
What are we to do about the “great sinners” among us?
Reanimation Artist
Dodie Bellamy’s bereavement chronicles.
A Catastrophic Purity
The neoliberal turn in American classical music.
An Artist of the Floating World
Bei Dao’s poetry of exile.
Unlucky Stars
Portents of war in Ukraine.
The Shitshow in Glasgow
Greetings from COP26.