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Daily Bafflements
March 29, 2016
• Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker also known as weev, is claiming to have printed anti-semitic and racist fliers remotely so that they landed right on the printer trays of US universities. Angela Nagle wrote about this fascist sympathizer in the current issue ...

Daily Bafflements
March 28, 2016
• “Today we are seeing the effects of a relentless war against the very idea of working-class politics or working-class community,” writes Baffler contributing editor David Graeber. “That has left most working people with little way to express that ...

Daily Bafflements
March 25, 2016
• Today in billionaires: Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen is donating $100 million to research at the “frontiers” of the life sciences, including a large grant to the developers of CRISPR, a gene-editing and DNA-tracking tool. Corey Pein wrote about one of ...

Daily Bafflements
March 24, 2016
• Today in billionaires: one Silicon Valley plutocrat has taken to the courts to assert his ownership of some land in California’s San Mateo County in order to prevent public beach access. The odd thing about his claim is that the land in question is at the bottom of ...

Daily Bafflements
March 23, 2016
• “It is worth reiterating that Marxism is terrible,” reiterates the dully left-baiting columnist Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine. If it’s the mid-twentieth century again, we at The Baffler didn’t notice. (Also, if ...

Daily Bafflements
March 22, 2016
• Today in the innovation economy: Rebecca Solnit writes in The Guardian about the execution of Alex Nieto and how “disruptive” the tech economy has been for “communities, traditions, and relationships.” She continues, “Many of the ...

Fear and Insanity in Michigan
Jason Brian Dalton, the alleged mass shooter who left six people dead in random street attacks this February, told police that he believed his Uber app was controlling his mind and body. According to Det. William Moorian’s report for the Department of Public Safety, Dalton, ...

Daily Bafflements
March 21, 2016
• Over at Buzzfeed, Baffler contributor Niela Orr has written, beautifully, about the myth of cultural mobility, in the context of her intimate, degrading experience working for Instacart (“Uber for groceries”): “Instacart times their ...

Daily Bafflements
March 18, 2016
• Jill Stein wants Bernie Sanders to know she’s totally open to the possibility of “collaborating” with him on an anti-Clinton ticket. The perennial Green Party candidate has said as much to the Sanders campaign several times with no response, leaving her ...