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Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

July 28, 2017

“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock” The best read of the week, and quite possibly our lifetimes, is this batshit insane Ryan Lizza piece recounting a conversation with Anthony Scaramucci. If you somehow missed it, well, buckle up because it’s ...

Shrinking the President

Sam Kriss

July 28, 2017

The Horrordome

You sit the President of the United States down on a nice little chair, and he sprawls there, and he talks to you.

The Opioid Thief

Amber A’Lee Frost

July 27, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

Your friend’s bride-to-be may be stealing your wife’s painkillers. Your best bet is to lock ‘em up.

Moving Targets

Katherine Cross

July 27, 2017

We can oppose Trump’s trans ban and everything it sets out to do without valorizing the military’s bombs and bombast.

Catholic Sisters Storm Capitol Hill

Sarah Jaffe

July 26, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

WELCOME TO INTERVIEWS FOR RESISTANCE. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

Two Poems

Bernadette Mayer,  Michael Palmer

July 25, 2017

To a Politician   Your penis is homeless  You are covered with as many warts as the lies you’ve told You pat maggots on their backs Your syphilitic mouth sucks the slugs from the irradiated cocks of your cohorts This gives a bad name to syphilis, if I mention it in ...

Tory Porn

Jonathon Sturgeon

July 25, 2017

The Immediate Experience

For Christopher Nolan, perhaps the last Tory propagandist in cinema, “society” and “the people” do not exist.

We’re Living in The Thick of It

Ned Resnikoff

July 24, 2017

While no Trump administration official can match Malcolm Tucker’s wit, they can certainly equal his vulgarity.

Spicer, Racked

Jason Linkins

July 21, 2017

There’s no real need to speak of Spicer’s legacy in complicated terms. He was not good.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

July 21, 2017

It has been a very long week.

More Mush from the Taste Police

Chris Lehmann

July 20, 2017

The Jaundiced Eyeball

The first noteworthy paradox in the taste-policing racket is that it’s a singularly lucrative and prestigious one.

Laboring Academia

Maximillian Alvarez

July 20, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

Universities claim graduate teaching and research aren’t worthy of the designation of “work.” It’s high time graduate employees called their bluff.