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Flying Cars — and a Progress Report on Our Summer Issue
June 04, 2012
What’s the difference between an iPhone and a flying car? David Graeber can tell you in his great Baffler 19 essay, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit,” which you can read now, for free, on this site. Just click on the current issue and scroll down to the ...

I Was a Teenage Gramlich
March 30, 2012
This week, The Boston Phoenix published an edited version of Jim Newell’s essay from our current issue, “I Was a Teenage Gramlich.” You can read the story here.

The Baffler on Kickstarter
March 27, 2012
Support the Baffler’s Kickstarter campaign! Help us reach our goal of $20,000 by May 11, and in return, we’ll give you presents! For a $10 donation, receive a Baffler postcard signed by Thomas Frank and John Summers, $25 gets you a signed copy of Baffler #19 and a ...

New Issue Out Now!
March 20, 2012
Baffler 19, the first from new editor in chief John Summers, alights on the bloodless crossroads of technology and culture with salvos by founding editor Thomas Frank, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rick Perlstein, David Graeber (who wonders why our cars don’t fly), and Maureen Tkacik ...

The Baffler No. 19 Coming Early March
February 01, 2012
In March, after a two-year hiatus, The Baffler will return with a dazzling new issue. Behold its cover! Contained therein are thundering new salvos from Thomas Frank, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rick Perlstein, and David Graeber, fiction from Kim Stanley Robinson and Ludmilla ...

Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire Tour
January 01, 2012
On Tuesday, Metropolitan Books will release Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, the latest book by Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank. Pity the Billionaire examines how and why our flaccid economy has revitalized the American ...

The Baffler Joins the MIT Press
October 26, 2011
We have big news: This afternoon, we signed a five-year, fifteen-issue publishing contract with the MIT Press. We’re very excited that a new Baffler is now guaranteed to come out three times a year for the foreseeable future. We know you are, too. The next issue is due in ...

The Baffler Returns
September 10, 2011
Welcome to the Internet home of The Baffler. Launching this temporary website marks one, admittedly small step toward our revival. What will you find here? Hors d’oeuvres, for the most part. Stay focused now! Soon, the sidewalks will be blanketed with mimeographed ...