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Daily Bafflements
January 28, 2015
• Today in Oh Really?: British researchers at the University of Warwick “have for the first time provided strong evidence for what conspiracy theorists have long thought—oil is often the reason for interfering in another country’s war.” • Per New York ...

Noam Chomsky on American Sniper
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on American Sniper Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark ...

Noam Chomsky on Global Terrorists
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and Annie Shreffler.

Noam Chomsky on Drone Attacks
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Drone Attacks Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and ...

Noam Chomsky on Cuba and Paris
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and Annie Shreffler.

Noam Chomsky on Living Memory
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Living Memory Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and ...

Noam Chomsky on Boston’s Hospital Shooting
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Boston’s Hospital Shooting Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, 22, 2015. Video by Mark ...

Noam Chomsky on Torture
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Torture Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and ...

The Utopian Vision of Pawnee, Indiana
January 27, 2015
Parks and Recreation, now entering its final season on NBC, has always represented a very particular, very liberal fantasy about how government should work. Though the city of Pawnee, Indiana is broadly drawn to the point of caricature—every branch of government seems to have ...

Daily Bafflements
January 27, 2015
• In the run-up to Monday night’s snowstorm, Mother Jones published the results of an extensive series of calculations for how much you should tip a food delivery person during a blizzard. The author came up with the answer of 30 percent. Our answer: learn to cook, or ...

Noam Chomsky on Wealth and Privilege
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Wealth and Privilege Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark ...