Baffler Archives: Salvos

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Privatizing Poverty

Kim Phillips-Fein

July 02, 2018

Issue no. 40

In 1962, Michael Harrington—a former Catholic Worker adherent and follower of Dorothy Day turned socialist activist—published a short book that sought to shatter the complacency of postwar affluence: The Other America. In this brief tour through the lives of the ...

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me

M.H. Miller

July 02, 2018

Issue no. 40

Now thirty years old, I have been incapacitated by debt for a decade.

Speech Defects

Jim Sleeper

July 02, 2018

Issue no. 40

With ever-expanding First Amendment prerogatives as protected “speakers,” corporations have become more influential than citizens.

The White Man, Unburdened

Quinn Slobodian,  Stuart Schrader

July 02, 2018

Issue no. 40

It was in Thailand that Charles Murray formulated his ideas on small government, community, and the good life.

Big Brother’s Blind Spot

Joanne McNeil

July 02, 2018

Issue no. 40

Given the choice, I think many of us—as individuals—might prefer the Kafkaesque to the Orwellian.

Patriarchy Deflated

Barbara Ehrenreich

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

How silly patriarchy is looking at this moment, as one rich and powerful man after another falls victim to the #MeToo movement.

River of No Return

Jason Linkins

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

The swiftboating of everything.

Dispatches from the American Gray Zone

Jonathon Sturgeon

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

It’s not just that civil wars have increased in number; their lead perpetrators have also become more violently ambitious.

Manufacturing Consent

Robin West

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

What is the legal wrong of sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is not simply boorish, immoral sexual behavior on the job.

Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money

Jacob Siegel

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

Cody Wilson is an extraordinary talker. He speaks in memes, generating sticky phrases off the cuff to capture powerful ideas.

The Screwer and the Screwed

Lauren Oyler

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

The situation may be OK, but it’s certainly not good.

Exalted Slogans

Yasmin Nair

April 30, 2018

Issue no. 39

What if we foregrounded movements, not the cult of personality and celebrity?