Friends Who Host Benefits
Trump doesn’t get art. This is a tenet of the #resistance.
Baffler Archives: Salvos
Columns
The Lost Art of Staying Put
A million new reasons to travel are manufactured every moment. Pageants, banquets, fairs, and jamborees.
Oculus Grift
In the past forty years, each time capital has faced a crisis, it has ended up becoming more powerful than before.
On Poisoned Ground
It's hard to know how many other towns still have poison in their soil.
The Problem with Muzak
We should call this what it is: the automation of selling out.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker
We all knew there was a cutthroat cabal of music industry execs waiting on the top floor of a tower in Rockefeller Center . . .
The Globalized Jitters
If depression was the primary affect of Gen X, anxiety may be the definitive diagnosis for millennials.
A Tragedy of Manners
We’re now in the midst of an extremely fraught renegotiation of the values expressed in our system of manners.
Tropical Depressions
The first thing to go extinct from global warming was Aristotle’s rational animal.
Utopia Parkway
Gary, Indiana, is, in a word, apocalyptic—the perfect readymade set for the next made-for-Netflix dystopian fiction.
The Art of the Heel
Unlike in politics, to be a heel in wrestling means to be willing to be hated by everyone.
The Crypto- Keepers
We’ve entered a paranoid game theory nightmare world—a place where regular people have no true power.