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This Could Revolutionize That

Kieran Dahl

April 05, 2018

Mindlessly in thrall to Silicon Valley, the media can't stop repeating the phrase "could revolutionize" in its headlines.

The Garbage Man

Will Meyer

April 04, 2018

Meet Sidney Torres: New Orleans trash king, private police chief, reality TV star, and, possibly, the next Trump.

Lost in Boston

Matt Hanson

April 03, 2018

On the fiftieth anniversary of Astral Weeks: we're a long way from Boston's music scene in 1968.

Another Sorry Snob

Chris Lehmann

April 02, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Laura Ingraham: Must be a right-wing snob—went to Dartmouth.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 30, 2018

God grant us the serenity to accept the depravities of the market we cannot change.

The Civil-izing Process

Jacob Silverman

March 29, 2018

Civil’s business model is genuinely innovative, if also bizarre. Welcome to journalism powered by the blockchain.

We Were Supposed to Accomplish Something

Amber A’Lee Frost

March 28, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

You're old and you hate your job. It's time to get self-directed, friendly, and civic-minded.

Festung High School

Ed Burmila

March 27, 2018

Trump's “hardening” of schools in the wake of recent shootings is a reversion to the bunker mentality of the nuclear age.

No Mothers, No Daughters

Jessa Crispin

March 27, 2018

Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

New to the Trump Team

Josh Fruhlinger

March 26, 2018

Trump Trading Cards

Trump's newest economics guru, Larry Kudlow. Whatever the question, he has the answer: Lower taxes.

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.

Dr. Zuckerstein’s Monster

Gary Greenberg

March 23, 2018

Victor Frankenstein wasn’t cut out to be an avenging hero.