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The Baffler

October 14, 2022

Vitruvian Manchild In a week in which evildoers like Alex Jones were punished and the prospect of consequence was meekly floated by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, our true enemy has yet to reveal himself. An Arkansas school board banned ...

The Pensioner

Yoni Gelernter

October 14, 2022

Fiction

Eichmann was the last to learn his own fate.

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Market

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

October 13, 2022

The long and sordid history of an economic fantasy.

Liberation Gospel

Kevin Rogan

October 12, 2022

Ethical dilettantes in the bourgeoisie are still bourgeois.

The Many Faces of Brian Kemp

Justin H. Vassallo

October 11, 2022

Georgia’s governor is a canny political operator.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 07, 2022

Mastodon and Servant The world has been a little more lonely since the extinction of the great auk, sabre-toothed tiger, and dodo, but a Dallas-based biotech company has announced plans to defy the survival of the fittest and resurrect the wooly mammoth—with the Tasmanian ...

In the Red Zone

Dave Denison

October 07, 2022

Civilifications

Who will lead the long project of rebuilding the Democratic Party?

Constantine Cavafy, Influencer

Aaron Timms

October 06, 2022

A poet for the Very Online.

Either Freedom or Death

Ilya Gridneff

October 05, 2022

Turkey and Greece are locked in a long and fragile stalemate.

Annie Ernaux’s Total Novel of Life

Jamie Hood

October 03, 2022

On the French writer’s revelatory diaries.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 30, 2022

Unchecked Power and Infinite Breadsticks In a bold stroke for gender parity, Italy elected a woman to the office of despotic, far-right, fascist-by-any-other-name head of government. Prime minister-elect Giorgia Meloni is already a nightmare prospect of a world leader, ...

Headscarf Games

Rafia Zakaria

September 30, 2022

Alienated

Another victory for a celebrity television feminist.