The Vital Possibility of Abdul El-Sayed
That Abdul El-Sayed is even possible in the dark terrain of our present moment is a sign that history is moving.
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Fresh Hell
August 03, 2018
Fast Times at Sears Department Store
International Man of Monocracy
Reader: Are you someone who is angry in an inchoate way at the Trump administration as an institution but who would prefer to focus your anger like a laser beam on specific individuals? We here at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to ...
Enemy of the People
August 02, 2018
Editor’s note: When Aaron Cantú arrived at his new job at the Santa Fe Reporter last year, he came with the baggage of a recent arrest. Two months earlier, he spent a night in jail with hundreds of others detained during protests on Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. His ...
The Tagorean Impulse
August 02, 2018
Too long ignored, Rabindranath Tagore's writings offer a powerful alternative in an age of nativist ressentiment.
The Permanent Vacationer
Your friend's life is a 24/7 holiday. Don't hate—no one likes a Bitter Betty.
So You’ve Been Punched in the Nuts
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America? and the legacy of the macho prank show.
Seizing Socialism’s Moment
July 31, 2018
We don’t have a very visible fighting feminist movement in the way that we’ve had in the past.
Who’s Afraid of Ocasio-Cortez?
July 30, 2018
Does Ocasio-Cortez represent a dangerous tilt leftward—or is she an inspiring augur of the Democratic Party’s future?
Fresh Hell
July 27, 2018
Lies, damned lies, and corn puff products
Rites of Power
July 26, 2018
Prince Charles's spiritual odyssey has been a sort of materialist schizophrenia.
Of Many Minds
July 26, 2018
Asad Haider on why identity politics is both a source of awareness and division, a boon and a burden for the left.