Dangerous Men
A global mash-up of misogyny
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Conceptual Personae
January 06, 2022
The many lives of Fernando Pessoa.
The Replacements
January 05, 2022
Amber Husain’s Replace Me turns the cultural logic of capitalism on its head.
Build Back Baffler
December 31, 2021
The Baffler looks back in anger at 2021.
Déjà Vu All Over Again
December 23, 2021
The Matrix, resurrected.
I Told You So
December 23, 2021
Adam McKay’s Aesop-style fable.
Everybody in Hoodies
On Kanye, the Gap, and the last gasp of American monoculture.
Burdened by Books
December 21, 2021
Teaching the Great Books today means confronting futility and absurdity.
Carnival of Souls
December 20, 2021
On the exhilarating bleakness of Rafael Chirbes’s fiction.
Fresh Hell
December 17, 2021
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Early next year, Republicans will take control of the state legislature in Virginia. Democrats, biding their time during these final few moments in power, have expressed concern that—what with the Supreme Court all but certain to curtail or outright overturn Roe v. Wade at ...
Ill Liberal Arts
When colleges use politics to eliminate political science.
Yesterday’s Men
December 16, 2021
Cold War liberalism, what is it good for?