Baffler Archives: Salvos

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Hidden Fighters

Molly Crabapple

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

They exist now mostly in archives. Photos show a beautiful young woman bent over an operating table, staring toward the camera with a mixture of defiance and exhaustion. A man in a sweater adorned with the Lion of Judah jauntily holds his flight helmet in one hand. A military ...

The Art of the Real

Katherine Cross

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

What the KGB once called dezinformatsiya has now come to dominate public life.

What We Do Is Secret

Adele M. Stan

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

Your government is in the hands of super-rich people who never had to show anything to anybody!

Race to the Bottom

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

The shelf life of post-racialism turned out to be far shorter than its cheerleaders supposed.

Abortive Reasoning

Yasmin Nair,  Eugenia Williamson

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.

California Über Alles

Ann Friedman

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

The hard truth about liberal secession fantasies is that California is not a place where everyone can be successful.

Why Work?

James Livingston

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

How can the left and the right be devoted to the same universal remedy—“Get a job!”—for what ails us?

Did the Fun Work?

Miya Tokumitsu

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

On the peculiarly American obsession with staying busy—even when we’re on vacation.

Creative Alibis

Daniel Brook

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

With Trump now ensconced in the White House, Richard Florida’s blueprint for urban revival is a study in futility.

The Wrong Stuff

Tom Carson

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

When does America’s right stuff turn into its wrong stuff from our unavoidably biased POV, and vice-versa?

You Gotta Serve Somebody

Dave Denison

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

Shouldn’t true-believing Christians be rising up in prophetic, righteous anger against the pharaonic Donald Trump?

People Like That

Ben Schwartz

June 05, 2017

Issue no. 35

In American humor, we expect our slob comedians to learn an important lesson at the end of every story.