Waitin’ on the Student Debt Jubilee
Going to college was a good decision, but deciding not to pay back my student loans was a better one.
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Contingent No More
Academic mythology merges seamlessly with self-serving fantasies of meritocracy and capitalistic bootstrapism.
Operation Mensch
May 02, 2017
How could somebody as doggedly patriotic as recent American citizen Louise Mensch be a secret agent of the Kremlin?
Keeping Hope Alive
May 02, 2017
Obama’s Wall Street payday isn’t a mistake. It burnishes the centrist credentials of his brand of Democratic politics with the donor class.
The Baffler’s May Day Round Up
May 01, 2017
A mixture of organizing, legal battles, and political incompetence have kept the newly-minted Trump administration from attaining all of its goals. But with immigration, labor, and health care under perpetual attack, organizers throughout the country have seized upon May Day ...
Time to Unite
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 ...
Gods of War
With Trump, aerial bombing has returned to its imperial roots.
Daily Bafflements
April 28, 2017
• Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival—a.k.a. Coachella for even richer, and even stupider, people—has been canceled due to Lord of the Flies-like conditions. (Some have also compared it to The Hunger Games.) The “luxury” festival—which promised resort-style accommodations ...
Big-League Bluster
April 28, 2017
The persistent overuse of adjectives signals the speaker’s doubt that they have something to say in the first place.
Put Me In, Coach!
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 ...
The Mismeasure of Media
Without the broader class background furnished by the righteous elite crusade against Sandersism, the miscalled general election comes off as freakish.
Mary Shows Up
The degradation of sacred femininity has a tendency to trickle down.