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Spare the Teen, Spoil the Rod
Teen bodies and teen sex are like psychological napalm triggering the worst-case-scenario meltdowns of parents, lawmakers, and prosecutors across the country. Certainly, having a sizeable chunk of the population besieged with explosive hormones, sporting a still-developing ...

Daniel Aaron, 1912-2016
May 10, 2016
On April 30, Baffler contributor and friend Daniel Aaron succumbed to complications from pneumonia at the age of 103. A scholar of plain-speaking eloquence, which flowed from his mastery of the American literary canon, Aaron developed a deep and complex relationship with radical ...

Irish Exceptionalism: The Nationalist Left
May 09, 2016
Coming to Ireland from the United States, particularly the United States in 2016 under the looming shadow of Trumpism, the latest incarnation of a nasty right-wing populism that wraps itself in the flag and scapegoats immigrants for its troubles, it was hard to feel that a ...

Daily Bafflements
May 09, 2016
• Last year in the Baffler, Neda Semnani wrote the story of her parents, a pair of Iranian revolutionaries, and of their lives in the lead-up and aftermath of the 1979 revolution. Under the repressive “revolutionary” rule of the new ...

The Spanish Democracy Revolutions
May 06, 2016
The Zapatistas of Chiapas have a phrase: “The fight for democracy is a slow burn.” It resonates at the Parliament of Catalonia, and all across the Spanish state, where indignation is rife. Research over there late last year gave me the opportunity to see four post-capitalist ...

Pacts Americana
Hearken to your geopolitical catechisms, America, for there are new trade accords in the air! Trade deals punctuate the placid world-conquering assurance of the global economic elite with the same ritual, righteous certainty offered by a Hollywood Spider-Man reboot, or the ...

Daily Bafflements
May 04, 2016
• Here at The Baffler, we’re big fans of scorched earth tactics. Give us a bridge; we’ll burn it, and trample merrily on its ashes. So, we were delighted to see that Jessa Crispin of Bookslut is taking the same approach to the ...

Daily Bafflements
May 02, 2016
• The news that George Mason University has renamed its law school for recently-deceased racist homophobe Antonin Scalia may not come as a surprise to anyone following the school’s ideological agenda—but it’s as good a reason as any to revisit Amber ...

Daily Bafflements
April 27, 2016
• Politico alum Jim VandeHei’s recent WSJ column on third-party candidates, Mark Zuckerberg, and “Normal America” (presumably composed of folks Mr. VandeHei has never met or previously expressed much interest in) has left many in the media scratching ...

His Inanity Bubbleth Over
We’re nearing the endgame of a tumultuous and anxiety-inducing primary season, and the pundits are feeling feisty. You can’t blame them, really. Campaign ’16 has been an unrelieved study in the terrible folly of confident campaign prognostication. Remember anointed ...