Syphilis, Baby
Episode 2: Amber and Sam rehash the news at home and abroad, from the Dutch election to the all-American Fat Leonard scandal.
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So Much Bigger Than Standing Rock
The way that the camp started, first of all, was with the youth. They had a vision and a goal and a dream because of the fact that suicide rates in our communities are so high. It is so devastating that so many kids would rather kill themselves than deal with the hurt and the ...
Trump Trolls the Welfare State
March 17, 2017
The document released last Wednesday by the White House bears no resemblance to most budget documents of days gone by. It’s more like the last minute delivery of a late term paper by some sleep-deprived undergraduate. The text has been scanned into a PDF file, rather than ...
The PC Debate, Sullied
In times of perceived crisis, the American liberal mind instinctively reaches for reassurance in its great dream of impartial reason. The noble pursuit of above-the-fray truth is besieged on all fronts, the stout refrain usually goes, and the most urgent order of business, in ...
The Constant Comrade
But reader, learn to take breaks! Remember, after all, the first act of the Paris Communards: they shot out the clocks.
Daily Bafflements
March 14, 2017
LD50, the London gallery with alt-right leanings, has been closed. Last week Megan Nolan wrote about the way mystification in the supposedly apolitical art world enables the spread of reactionary ideas: "I have seen it said by antifa that LD50 is not a story about art, but about ...
Organizing in Pence Country
To those who say that strike is only the luxury of the privileged, that is bullshit. Strike is the most basic form of resistance for the most vulnerable women. It is precisely the most vulnerable women that have come out and demanded their rights over the history of modernity ...
The Politics of Smart
March 13, 2017
Rick Perlstein talks to Baffler editor in chief Chris Lehmann about the curious identity of smartness. . .
Accessorized for the Apocalypse
In prepping scenes, the sheer weight and volume of things, an essential part of the North American experience for a while now, is recorded and imagined in a different time. Things are arced from abundance to scarcity, reinvented with meaning, imparted with an aura that they do ...
The Betrayal of Democracy
March 13, 2017
The globalized power elite that may feel more at home in Taiwan or Singapore isn’t objectionable because its members may be in thrall to some sinister, unpatriotic economic loyalties, as Bannon and his retinue of Trump enablers tirelessly insist. No, the members of the ...
Daily Bafflements
March 10, 2017
• In Case You Missed It (to be fair, you might have been distracted by the efforts of congressional Republicans to take away your life-saving health coverage): a little-discussed bill called HR 1313 is on the rise, approved by a House committee. It would allow employers to ...
Richard Simmons Has a Knee Injury
Missing Richard Simmons is not a “much-heralded hollow space.” It deserves its acclaim.