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Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

October 06, 2017

Wow who besides literally everyone saw this coming. After decades of gossip and backchannel talk, somebody finally reported out and published the story that Harvey Weinstein is an enormous fucking creep. He looks like overripe fruit, and makes young women watch him shower. Cool ...

They Want to Take the Guns, Don’t They?

Sarah Jaffe

October 06, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...

Reinventing the Wheel

Jacob Silverman

October 05, 2017

The Future Sucked

You could grow old waiting for an enlightened billionaire to appear.

The Corbyn Cult

Sam Kriss

October 05, 2017

The Horrordome

Why did British journalist Alexander Scissors-Tremendously vanish from his room at the Labour Party Conference?

President Lisa Simpson

Tom Whyman

October 04, 2017

Lover of austerity economics, mouthpiece of an educated elite. Behold the future: President Lisa Simpson.

The Bananas-Ass Ex-Friend

Amber A’Lee Frost

October 04, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

So you wife's ex-friend is a psycho, bunny boiling nut job. Find the nearest escape route!

Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State

Saul Cornell

October 03, 2017

Our debates over gun ownership typically revolve instead around a potent set of myths that cloud our historical understanding.

What Happened?

Brandy Jensen

October 03, 2017

"Nasty Women," a new collection of feminist writing, has one eye on the future and one foot in the election.

Underwriters of the World, Ideate!

Jason Linkins

October 02, 2017

Report from the Washington Ideas Forum. What dilemma exists that cannot be gently confronted by a platitude-spouting meritocracy?

Getting Schooled

Chris Lehmann

October 02, 2017

The Blessed and the Brightest

The chief lesson of the great liberal education fetish has always been to carelessly offload the savage inequalities of our economic order for our schools to rectify.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

September 29, 2017

Hugh Hefner died. You are Jonathan Chait’s enemy. Meme queens of the Fourth Reich.

Plunged Into Darkness

Sarah Jaffe

September 29, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...