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Professorville’s Matron Saint

Lucy Ellmann

October 01, 2018

The United States is just one great big internment camp for women; we are all “detained,” awaiting a fair hearing.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 28, 2018

Splish splash, I was getting tipsy in the bath

Entitlements

Chris Lehmann

September 28, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Days of rage in the Kavanaugh hearings.

Daddy Issues

Amber A’Lee Frost

September 26, 2018

All Tomorrow’s Parties

There is literally no other effective alternative solution to the culture-wide challenge of male parenting than socialism.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 21, 2018

Alexa, nuke my Lean Cuisine Chicken Ranch Club Flatbread Melt!

Myth Appropriation

Sammy Feldblum

September 21, 2018

Classics scholars confront the ideological looting of antiquity.

Alabama’s Tiny Terror

Josh Fruhlinger

September 20, 2018

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 ...

Socialized Media

Evan Malmgren

September 19, 2018

What will it take to remake Facebook and Twitter in the public’s interest?

Making Sausage of Salazar

Max B. Sawicky

September 18, 2018

There are long-standing, reasonable arguments about why socialism is terrible. I don’t think they hold up, but these arguments are not what animates criticism of left challenges to the Democratic Party establishment. Instead we are treated to a barrage of evil, inane gossip, ...

These Citadels of Power

Chris Lehmann

September 17, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Author Anand Giridharadas discusses his book "Winners Take All."

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 14, 2018

Vaping for human rights!

Border Theater

Michelle García

September 14, 2018

Image, myth, and reality clash in the spectacle of the U.S.-Mexico border.