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Baffler Archives: Salvos
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The Rule of Law in Shambles
Life is unfair. But then so is the law.
The Gilded Mean
On the soothingly righteous realm of fantasy called centrism.
Shrill and Shriller
As a publishing trend, the New Economy didn’t survive the stock market collapse. But the politics of the bubble are more popular with book-buyers today than ever. Some changes have occurred, of course: the bestselling books of the nineties swaggered with optimism. They ...
Down and Out in the Red Zone
“Maybe no Super Bowl will ever be as important as No. XXXVI,” thundered an editorial in New Orleans magazine last February, “because this one is about national confidence.” And so it was. Super Bowl XXXVI was to be played only five months after the ...
Heat Wave
What Chicago needed was a social autopsy.
Making Babies the American Girl Way
What are dolls except instruments for simulating mothering?
I’d Like to Force the World to Sing
The making of a yes generation.
The God That Sucked
Time was, the only place a guy could expound the mumbo jumbo of the free market was in the country club locker room or the pages of Reader’s Digest. Spout off about it anywhere else and you’d be taken for a Bircher or some new strain of Jehovah’s Witness. After all, ...
Paradise Shot to Hell: The Westbrook Pegler Story
What kind of times do we live in when syndicated radio host G. Gordon Liddy can “neutrally” remind listeners to shoot for the head when targeting federal agents? Times pretty similar to the heyday of Westbook Pegler, the It Boy of attack journalists, now a tragic and ...
Birchismo
The John Birch Society was a freak magnet.
Dipping Extremely Low in the Lap of Corporate Luxury
The luxuries of a major automobile press jaunt.