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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 ...

Turd-Farty? Bring It On.
When I was a kid I was addicted to Mad Libs. I would fill in every blank with some variation of my two favorite words: “toilet” and “fart.” If the prompt asked for an adjective, I would write “toilety.” For adverbs, I found ...

Daily Bafflements
April 25, 2016
• Thou shalt not decorate thy megachurch with a tacky water feature! So reads the epistle of Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann to the Americans, or rather his new book The Money Cult, published by Melville House next month. American churches have ...

Daily Bafflements
April 22, 2016
• Snapchat is under fire for a “Bob Marley” filter designed to allow users to style themselves after the reggae great, blackface and all. Even through the 4/20 haze (yes, that’s why the company decided to memorialize Marley in the first place), users were ...

Unexecuted Ideas of an Irish Republic
April 22, 2016
There is still no government in Ireland, more than nine weeks after the general election knocked down the ruling coalition that had imposed Troika-mandated austerity. This means that Enda Kenny, after losing the first vote that would have re-elected him Taoiseach (prime ...

Daily Bafflements
April 21, 2016
• Brooklyn Bafflers: Poet Jennifer Nelson will be reading tonight at the Brooklyn Public Library. Two of Nelson’s weird, brilliant poems appeared in Baffler no. 29, where she reminded us “It’s crude to claim our technology / moralizes that of the past: ...