Zen and the Art of Self-Satisfaction
If you are not an artist, you are unwell.
Baffler Archives: Salvos
Columns
American Heartworm
That shallow and putrid trough we call the Mississippi River.
A Partial History of Alarms
Whoooops, dweeeeps, beeps, and whirligig wails.
Confessions of a Labor Editor
The labor movement as seen from the pages of Racine Labor.
Popular Front Redux?
The university of excellence, after all, is a university of streamlined labor costs.
When Class Disappears
Is this a great time or what?
The Money Shot
On gay porn—from the 1950s to the 1990s.
The Advertised Life
Madison Avenue’s stranglehold on American life.
The Problem with Music
I imagine a trench filled with runny, decaying shit.
Alternative to What?
There are few spectacles corporate America enjoys more than a good counterculture.
Twenty-Nothing
What exactly is Generation X?
The Libidinal Tourist
Multiculturalism is a misnomer.