The Globalized Jitters
If depression was the primary affect of Gen X, anxiety may be the definitive diagnosis for millennials.
Baffler Archives: Salvos
Columns
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.
The People, No
The more ambitious agenda here is to gradually transform the right to vote into a kind of status marker.
Lords of Misrule
Rampant criminal and market-cornering impunity is now simply part of the corporate landscape.
Academe on the Auction Block
The world of academic research centers and institutes is thoroughly awash in—indeed, wholly made possible by—corporate cash.
Smoked Out
Casting traditional marijuana producers as “dangerous criminals” is a key rhetorical maneuver employed to justify state greed.
The Military-Messaging Complex
Novelty does not equal sinister media genius.
Natural Human Behavior
Working families were transformed into Enemies of the People.