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Fresh Hell
March 03, 2023
Cowabungled In a hell week that was particularly dystopic, even for 2023, Tennessee banned drag shows, Florida mulled requiring bloggers who want to critique the governor to register with the state, and the New York Times profiled a man who doesn’t wear shoes as though he ...

Announcing Our New Editor in Chief,
Matthew Shen Goodman
February 24, 2023
The Baffler magazine, America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism since 1988, has appointed Matthew Shen Goodman as its new editor in chief. Shen Goodman comes to The Baffler from Triple Canopy, where he served as senior editor ...

Fresh Hell
February 24, 2023
Sphere is the Mind-Killer There seems to be no end to the ways that the formerly harmless old-timey knickknacks of a vanished Americana can harm us, with balloons peering down with sinister intent from the skies they once cluttered with box kites and fizzled fireworks, and ...

Fresh Hell
February 17, 2023
Écarté Derrière This week Germany continued to lead the world in modeling how an empire engages in civilized discourse when Marco Goecke, the director of the Hanover State Opera’s ballet company, smeared dog feces in the face of his critic, who had written of his ...