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Missing Richard Simmons is not a “much-heralded hollow space.” It deserves its acclaim.
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Why They Need the Cucks
Strip The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy of its satirical critique, and you're left with a logic that is dismally familiar. The categories of embattled manhood now trafficked by the cuck-trashing, immigrant-bashing men of Breitbart or 4chan are shifting but ultimately ...
Trump’s Willing Scholars
Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump.
Trump’s rise has been described as “anti-intellectual” in nature, but that hasn’t stopped a new intellectual movement from feeding off his momentum.
Enter American Affairs, a ...
Rubber and Heroin in a Dying City
In 2001, facing an industry significantly weaker than it had seen in recent years, the Goodyear Tire Company laid off nearly eight thousand employees around the country, many in its hometown of Akron, Ohio. Akron is a town that has run on rubber since 1898, when Frank Seiberling ...
The Growing Grassroots
I am hopeful that if people follow Maine, they might learn some things that they could reshape to fit their circumstances.
A Women’s Strike Reading List
March 08, 2017
Here’s a helpful syllabus for following along with the today’s massive Women's Strike, composed by the socialist feminist collective Red Papers.
Useful Idiots of the Art World
March 08, 2017
In a gallery in East London, in the summer of 2016, something strange was taking place. LD50 was about a year old by then, run by Lucia Diego, and had hosted shows by prominent artists at varying stages of their careers—Dinos and Jake Chapman, John Russell and Joey Holder, ...
Circulate Now, Mobilize Later
Circulation numbers are steadily rising for key segments of the leftist press. But is this a legitimate sign of life?
Whistle-blowers, Hedge Clippers, and Strikers
A big part of our work is basically saying, “Trump has surrounded himself with these set of players. That is who they really are. Let’s look at all of the way they screw people that are the opposite of Trump.” The way I think about it is, we have to make Trump guilty of ...
Daily Bafflements
March 07, 2017
• “This isn’t shaping up to be the millennium we were promised,” comments Chris Lehmann, in his introduction to Baffler no. 34, “The Snare of Preparation,” which is out on newsstands today. “The data-bedazzled twenty-first century was to be a time of painlessly ...
Our Better Ban
My brother went to medical school at a state-run university in Pakistan. You had to be brilliant to get in, not just really smart but brilliant in the sense of perfect to the final percentage point. The list of admitted students was published on a bulletin board outside the ...
Framed Narrative
March 06, 2017
It is hard these days for even Israel’s most diehard supporters to pretend that something has not gone seriously wrong. A case in point: the sentencing last month of Elor Azaria, a twenty-year-old Israeli army medic caught on video putting a bullet in the head of a wounded ...