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Antifascism and the Left’s Fear of Power
May 16, 2018
This article has been adapted from a talk delivered at Purdue University on April 18, 2018, hosted by the Purdue chapter of the Campus Antifascist Network. In the United States today people tend to squirm with profound discomfort, if not sneer with outright revulsion, when they ...

Giuliani’s Pooch
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 at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to sell ...

Fresh Hell
May 11, 2018
Parsing the blue raspberry-flavored vape cloud signals of today’s youth.

What So Proudly We Hailed
May 11, 2018
At the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center last week I stood in one place for an hour watching a line of thousands inch along, quietly, cheerfully. They had come to see the president, the vice president, to see guns and lovers of guns, to see each other. I had come—just ...

Dealbreaker
May 10, 2018
A short history of double-dealing, and doubling down, between the United States and Iran.

A Telling Moment
“This is not a very beautiful city,” the young activist driving me from the train station to the campus of the University of Zaragoza said apologetically as soon as we were in the car. She was right. I had just left Granada, redolent with orange blossoms and Moorish ...

Period Feminism
May 07, 2018
Before its rumors of profitability and penchant for controversy captivated the startup world, Thinx, the conspicuously feminist manufacturer of period-proof underwear, wanted to make a splash, so it did something true to its NYC roots: it decided to buy subway ads. The bombastic ...

Fresh Hell
May 04, 2018
“In these times, you have to be innovative and creative in recruiting.”