Jan 8, 2024 · Throttling pink dreams of night raids. Rats run. Narcan is low. Dogs follow you on the street and men say HOT and HOT seconds before late summer monsoon. Clang at 9, clang at 12. Nature is this repeating joke: this vow, this house, this crown, this yoke. a. c. t. o. r. y. Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual compensation in lieu of …Feb 13, 2024 · Illusions of Safety. We’re in the midst of yet another bipartisan crime panic. Democratic mayors in San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are loudly demanding “law and order” while President Joe Biden calls for one hundred thousand more police officers on the streets. On the right, Republicans stoke conspiracy theories ... Bad Religion. The highway to Wisteria Campground curves blindly in the telltale fashion of an old dirt road repurposed to suit the demanding pace of modern life. Round one such corner and a sign emerges in the tree line: democrats destroying america, it declares, god help us. Below it, Smokey the Bear politely …Jun 2, 2021 · Old Master. Though freighted with dissatisfaction, the monologists of Thomas Bernhard are held aloft by gusts of Alpine vehemence. Their impractical endeavors—philosophy, classical music, art history, and ill-defined “sciences”—mark them as outsiders. The misanthropic comedies they inhabit require the lonely vantage of these ... LIVING. Skinny and impeccable, Bill Nighy in Living is the opposite of Brendan Fraser in The Whale, but he too is lonely and dying.This unnecessary remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), scripted by the British-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, retells the story of a quiet bureaucrat who learns he only has a few months to live.It takes place in …Feb 28, 2024 · A luxurious and hedonist Mediterranean, and a cruel, heartless one. It is one sea with multiple shores. It is one sea, as Darwish notes, “ and there you seize upon a world that words can’t get hold of. It can’t be seen or touched except in the depths of the sea. The sea is the sea ,” and I will never stop longing for it. a. c. t. o. r. y. Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual compensation in lieu of …Sep 26, 2023 · The epigraph stamped on The Baffler no. 1, from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Morning of Drunkenness,” introduced it as a punk literary magazine. It was the summer of 1988. The founders, Thomas Frank and Keith White, were recent graduates of the University of Virginia. They named their magazine as a joke on academic fads like undecidability, then in fashion. The Baffler was born to laugh at the ... This year marks the 90th anniversary of the wave of pogroms that claimed tens of thousands of Jewish lives in the Ukraine in 1919. The purpose of this article is to …Early on, Kaur’s immigrant-themed work attracted women of color looking for representation; after the viral photograph, young white women caught up in the tide of fourth-wave feminism and the solipsism of the Trump era flooded in to read her sage self-affirmations.The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833. Light Mode. Light Mode. System Settings ...The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.Irony isn’t the appropriate response to rising seas. Rejecting a steadfast commitment to the purism of certain ideals explains the wall-sitting liberalism of Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. However, Cherniss’s book is instructive for revealing the fatal shortcomings of Cold War liberalism and its …More than a roll call of the victims of surveillance capitalism, Zuboff’s new book seeks to decode its broader historical meaning. In a single sentence, it’s this: “Google invented and perfected surveillance capitalism in much the same way that a century ago General Motors invented and perfected managerial capitalism.”.Jan 8, 2024 · Throttling pink dreams of night raids. Rats run. Narcan is low. Dogs follow you on the street and men say HOT and HOT seconds before late summer monsoon. Clang at 9, clang at 12. Nature is this repeating joke: this vow, this house, this crown, this yoke. 1. humans will go extinct before they have the technical capacity to create a hyper-realistic simulation. 2. an advanced civilization with the technical capacity to create a hyper-realistic historical simulation would be uninterested in doing so. 3. we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.a. c. t. o. r. y. Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual compensation in lieu of …Mar 29, 2022 · And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Jack Sheehan is a writer, historian, and photographer from Dublin. You can find his work at the Irish Times , The London Magazine , The Fence, or at jacksheehan.substack.com. Blink - Online identity & payment technologies. In The Baffler’s frisky nineties youth, we’d designate the liberationist delusions of consumer capitalism under the running designation “New Bad Things.”This casual filing system seemed well suited to an age that was tricked out in every conceivable sort of lifestyle novelty. But the New Bad things have lately mutated out of control.Queer Memories in Beijing. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, an …Art Is the New Puberty. At the root of David Cronenberg’s lifelong project is, of course, the flesh. And at the root of his engagement with the flesh is an apparent parting of the ways between evolution and reproduction. On the one hand, his most iconic characters—Seth Brundle in The Fly, Max Renn in Videodrome, the twin gynecologists in ... The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish six print issues annually, as well as online content every day of the cursed workweek. A Baker’s Secrets. In the annals of food and memory, I know of no story so peculiar as the mysterious disappearance—now more than three decades ago—of the Guerrilla Cookie from the shelves of Midwestern food co-ops. A confection with a cult following, it rose to popularity in Madison, Wisconsin, in the … In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class. The techniques of division mutate like a virus. In battles over unionization, the powerful spend millions on smarmy union-busting lawyers. 1. humans will go extinct before they have the technical capacity to create a hyper-realistic simulation. 2. an advanced civilization with the technical capacity to create a hyper-realistic historical simulation would be uninterested in doing so. 3. we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.The Baffler was founded to challenge that same placid white-collar consensus, and so it is unsurprising that the magazine and Summers would enter the same orbit. While studying at Rochester, Summers made the acquaintance of Chris Lehmann, a journalist and Rochester alumnus who was well-connected in the small-magazine …Israel’s Permit Regime. An Israeli economy without Palestinians? Twenty-six days into Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli megadeveloper Haim Feiglin stood on the grounds of an incomplete residential tower near Tel Aviv. Ever since the Hamas attack of October 7, construction has stood …The “special snowflake” jeer comes, originally, from the 1996 novel Fight Club, the film of which is every yammering internet man-baby’s favorite piece of ultra-violent Randian misogynist eye candy, where the right and proper answer to boredom and alienation is to take your shirt off and pummel a stranger. The Humanoid Stain. In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic Age. As the story goes, and there are many versions of it, they had been taking a walk in the woods near the town of Montignac when the dog accompanying them suddenly disappeared. A quick search revealed that their animal ... Overproduction and Its Discontents. Everyone recalls the shortages of toilet paper and pasta, but the early period of the pandemic was also a time of gluts. With restaurants and school cafeterias shuttered, farmers in Florida destroyed millions of pounds of tomatoes, cabbages, and green beans. After meatpacking plants began closing, …American Fables. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pages. George Packer is the quintessential establishment liberal intellectual: a staff writer at The Atlantic, and before that The New Yorker; the author of a dozen books of both fiction and …Give to The Baffler. $10. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. David Austin Walsh is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation is about the relationship between the far right and the conservative movement in the United States in the twentieth …Fascism is on the march in these United States, and the painful truth is that it’s been feeding on all the social forces we’d naively entrusted to a feckless expert class. In recognition of this dramatically altered status quo, The Baffler gives you …The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833. Light Mode. Light Mode. System Settings ...And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Laura Mauldin is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut. She is currently writing a book that tells the stories of disabled people and caregivers as they try to survive in an ableist America.The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish six print issues …Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. Any. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Soraya Roberts is a regular writer for Hazlitt and the author of In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life. New email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue. Share.Savings-and-loan banks, also called building-and-loan societies, or “thrifts,” were once upon a time the cornerstone of the American mortgage market. Although originating in the nineteenth century, the modern thrift was created in the 1930s as a New Deal reform meant to restore trust in the financial system. In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class. The techniques of division mutate like a virus. In battles over unionization, the powerful spend millions on smarmy union-busting lawyers. Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Daniel Luban is a writer and scholar teaching at the University of Chicago. He previously covered the American foreign policy right as a journalist for Inter Press Service.The Father of All Secrets. In an equivocal recommendation letter to the dons at Oxford, R.S. Thompson, a housemaster at Sherborne School, Dorset, wrote that his former pupil David Cornwell “strikes …The New Man of 4chan. “The first of our kind has struck fear into the hearts of America,” announced one commenter last year on the giddily offensive /r9k/ board of the notorious, anarchic site 4chan. “This is only the beginning. The Beta Rebellion has begun. Soon, more of our brothers will take up arms to become martyrs to this revolutionAmerican Fables. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pages. George Packer is the quintessential establishment liberal intellectual: a staff writer at The Atlantic, and before that The New Yorker; the author of a dozen books of both fiction and nonfiction; a National Book Award …When the UN established a further seventeen Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the first item was “an end to poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030. Alston believes that the World Bank is sticking to its extreme poverty methodology simply to appear to meet the first Sustainable Development Goal.The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.Nov 17, 2023 · a. c. t. o. r. y. In the weeks since Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip began, following the October 7 Hamas attacks, Republican presidential hopefuls have tripped over themselves to promise voters that, if elected, they will ensure not a single Palestinian refugee is resettled in the United States. “Not all of them are Hamas ... Yale University Press, 336 pages. In 1984, the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton described the state of his chosen field as being stuck between a “public relations branch of the literary industry” and “a matter wholly internal to the academies.”. Criticism, he said, was a discipline that had lost its social function, …Israel’s Permit Regime. An Israeli economy without Palestinians? Twenty-six days into Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli megadeveloper Haim Feiglin stood on the grounds of an incomplete residential tower near Tel Aviv. Ever since the Hamas attack of October 7, construction has stood …The Baffler was founded to challenge that same placid white-collar consensus, and so it is unsurprising that the magazine and Summers would enter the same orbit. While studying at Rochester, Summers made the acquaintance of Chris Lehmann, a journalist and Rochester alumnus who was well-connected in the small-magazine …Give to The Baffler. $10. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. David Austin Walsh is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation is about the relationship between the far right and the conservative movement in the United States in the twentieth century.What Happened in Vegas. Lasting for three straight days, the grand opening of Caesars Palace in August of 1966 was a spectacle unlike any the city of Las Vegas had ever seen. The owners of the casino, a brash Southern hotelier and gambler named Jay Sarno and his straight-laced partner Stan Mallin, dropped over a …Foucault had what Simeon Wade calls “the greatest experience of his life” in May 1975 at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. Several weeks later, after an evening of tequila sunrises, Scriabin sonatas, marijuana, and literary conversation, the three men leave for the desert at dawn. “We brought along a powerful elixir, a kind of philosopher ...Pure Colour by Sheila Heti.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 224 pages. Everything in Pure Colour, the new novel by Sheila Heti, vibrates with instability, with the shimmering frisson of one teetering on the edge.It seems only right, for a book that begins with the proposition that God is an artist and we are living in his soon-to-be-discarded first draft, …The New Man of 4chan. “The first of our kind has struck fear into the hearts of America,” announced one commenter last year on the giddily offensive /r9k/ board of the notorious, anarchic site 4chan. “This is only the beginning. The Beta Rebellion has begun. Soon, more of our brothers will take up arms to become martyrs to this revolutionPolitical Fictions. “Our literary elites may all come from the same expensive institutions,” Jessa Crispin writes in issue 62 of The Baffler, “but they are all working stiffs in their own minds, pretending to feel solidarity with the working classes.”. Those literary elites, she writes, have helped flatten contemporary literature into a ...The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit.The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833. Light Mode. Light Mode. System Settings ...Fascism is on the march in these United States, and the painful truth is that it’s been feeding on all the social forces we’d naively entrusted to a feckless expert class. In recognition of this dramatically altered status quo, The Baffler gives you …Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Amber A'Lee Frost is a writer and musician in Brooklyn. She is a contributor to Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy and False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton.After Floyd. “Something is happening,” I thought, as I watched coverage of hundreds of people flood the Minneapolis streets in response to the murder of George Floyd. It was three days after his death on May 25, 2020, and two days after widespread circulation of a bystander’s video showing police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling …The gamut of stereotypes about black women theatergoers as uncouth, abrasive, and over-the-top comes through in this scene, and fellow spectators, almost all of them white, repeatedly tell Brenda to shut up. When she refuses, one of the men seated near Ghostface, the masked killer, steals his knife and stabs her.Kate Wagner is a critic and journalist based in Chicago and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is the creator and writer of the satirical architecture blog McMansion Hell, and her work on architecture has been featured in a number of publications including The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Atlantic. In Baffler no. 67, we survey then the ways in which the idea of the national interest creates what Trouillot calls “the bleak homogeneity” pushed by those fighting for the nation’s reins. As Lyta Gold discovers while scrutinizing conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg’s career of half-baked answers to the question “What makes America ... Unlike in politics, to be a heel in wrestling means to be willing to be hated by everyone. There is no electoral college in wrestling. And therein lies the beating heart of Donald Trump’s all-consuming internal conflict. His biggest fear is not going over as a babyface. But he is a natural heel. Only Italians Will Understand This. Identity in an age of viral caricature. The Baffler. W. F. From their perch in Brooklyn, Sabino Curcio and Rocco Loguercio have become something like unofficial arbiters of Italian culture online. As the hosts of the podcast Growing Up Italian, which boasts a huge online following, as well …Sep 2, 2021 · a. c. t. o. r. y. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, an activist who had been warned by police to stay ... Old Master. Though freighted with dissatisfaction, the monologists of Thomas Bernhard are held aloft by gusts of Alpine vehemence. Their impractical endeavors—philosophy, classical music, art history, and ill-defined “sciences”—mark them as outsiders. The misanthropic comedies they inhabit require the lonely …War, he wrote, is the health of the state.”. In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class. The techniques of division mutate like a virus. In battles over unionization, the ...American Fables. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pages. George Packer is the quintessential establishment liberal intellectual: a staff writer at The Atlantic, and before that The New Yorker; the author of a dozen books of both fiction and nonfiction; a National Book Award …Deepest Gondolances. In a week that saw Canadian wildfires turn the air a sprightly yellow and ensconce the New York metropolitan area in a malevolent mist, closing businesses and blighting eyes, color seems in revolt worldwide: on Sunday, a Venice canal turned fluorescent green. Algae blooms and ecoterrorism … Unlike in politics, to be a heel in wrestling means to be willing to be hated by everyone. There is no electoral college in wrestling. And therein lies the beating heart of Donald Trump’s all-consuming internal conflict. His biggest fear is not going over as a babyface. But he is a natural heel. a. c. t. o. r. y. Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual compensation in lieu of …History. Founded in 1988, The Baffler is a magazine of cultural, political, and business analysis. Its motto was “the journal that blunts the cutting edge.” According to their about page, “Our regular subjects include Silicon Valley snake oil, the deadening weight of consumer capitalism, our faithless media, and …Jan 24, 2018 · Early on, Kaur’s immigrant-themed work attracted women of color looking for representation; after the viral photograph, young white women caught up in the tide of fourth-wave feminism and the solipsism of the Trump era flooded in to read her sage self-affirmations. January 20, 2020. In DESIGNS FOR LIVING, columnist Marlowe Granados dispenses sound advice in a noisy world. Send your rants and pleas to [email protected] for Marlowe’s consideration. Sweet, sweet, agony Aunt Marlowe: I exited a long-term relationship and have missed the cultural ...The Baffler is a magazine that challenges the cutting edge of culture, politics, and society with wit and insight. Read essays, poems, and fiction on topics ranging from Palestine to …And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Barry Yeoman is a freelance journalist living in Durham, North Carolina. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, and National Wildlife, among other publications. Read Later.The concept of “shooting the messenger” predates actual shooting by millennia. It is said that the ancient Greeks so dreaded the receipt of bad news that those charged with its delivery along the proto-postal routes that birthed the modern marathon were at mortal risk upon arrival. Back then, killing a bearer of unwelcome reports was …Jan 4, 2024 · Universal Failure. In 2007, when the “surge” in Iraq that deployed more than twenty thousand additional troops was getting underway, I was in sixth grade. While I can’t really recall the details, I have a vivid memory of seeing a burned-out American Humvee, presumably destroyed in an IED blast, on the news. The concept of “shooting the messenger” predates actual shooting by millennia. It is said that the ancient Greeks so dreaded the receipt of bad news that those charged with its delivery along the proto-postal routes that birthed the modern marathon were at mortal risk upon arrival. Back then, killing a bearer of unwelcome reports was …The first fictions appeared some 200 million years ago in the Mesozoic minds of mammals and birds. Small creatures, newly differentiated, they stole whatever sleep they could under the rule of the dinosaurs, and there in burrows or high in nests they fitfully hallucinated experiences that never happened. 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Land Ho. A woman prepares a snack for her family while her youngest child, an eight-month-old named Mabel Mae, looks on from her high chair. She pours milk into a Dutch oven from a glass jar almost as big as the baby girl beside her, heats it to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and mixes in citric acid.a. c. t. o. r. y. The concept of “shooting the messenger” predates actual shooting by millennia. It is said that the ancient Greeks so dreaded the receipt of bad news that those charged with its delivery along the proto-postal routes that birthed the modern marathon were at mortal risk upon arrival. Back then, killing a … t. b. u. r. s. t. s. This spring, scientists and science writers alike celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize- winning physicist Richard Feynman. To mark the occasion, I sent out a tweet that included a quote from Feynman’s widely beloved memoir, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” in which he calls women in ... The Life and Death of the Dream Job. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe. Bold Type Books, 432 pages. The legal age to start working in Ohio is fourteen, but my two best friends and I found ways to get jobs before that anyway.Downward Spiral. When the pregame show after the first pregame show ended, there were of course commercials. After that, nearly one hundred million Americans watched a quill pen being dipped into an inkwell. The camera pulled back to reveal the arm and powdered wig of the man holding the pen; his hand protrudes from a …It advances the plot. The cinematic look of the computer screen is arranged to convey maximum information at a minimum strain on the viewer’s resources. Favored: Bright, readable colors; large, legible type; and unmistakably clear language. FILE NOT FOUND, with a big red X like a cherry on top. …Village Atheists, Village Idiots. Something has gone badly wrong with our atheists. All these self-styled intellectual titans, scientists, and philosophers have fallen horribly ill. Evolutionist faith-flayer Richard Dawkins is a wheeling lunatic, dizzy in his private world of old-fashioned whimsy and bitter neofascism.The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.The Baffler is a magazine that challenges the cutting edge of culture, politics, and society with wit and insight. Read essays, poems, and fiction on topics ranging from Palestine to …And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Joy Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe with a PhD in History from UC Berkeley. She is writing a book about violence against women and the tension between narrative and evidence in understanding …History. Founded in 1988, The Baffler is a magazine of cultural, political, and business analysis. Its motto was “the journal that blunts the cutting edge.” According to their about page, “Our regular subjects include Silicon Valley snake oil, the deadening weight of consumer capitalism, our faithless media, and …A gender-nonconforming teen dressed in drag for Rocky Horror could—and, in some otherwise repressive regions, still can—meet a theater full of people who accepted their identity. The neon costumes and angular hairstyles of Liquid Sky defined New Wave-era bisexual chic and inspired the early-aughts electroclash scene.Low, Dishonest Days. It’s been over two months since Israel launched a genocidal incursion against the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas’s surprise attack of October 7. In that time, hospitals, churches, schools, refugee camps, mosques, and residential blocks have been bombed with abandon, …Kate Wagner is a critic and journalist based in Chicago and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is the creator and writer of the satirical architecture blog McMansion Hell, and her work on architecture has been featured in a number of publications including The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Atlantic. In …About us. The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art. We publish six print …Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on early universe cosmology, dark matter, and Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. Blink - Online identity & payment technologies. The Bad Society. In The Baffler ’s frisky nineties youth, we’d designate the liberationist delusions of consumer capitalism under the running designation “New Bad Things.”. This casual filing system seemed well suited to an age that was tricked out in every conceivable sort of lifestyle novelty. But the New Bad things have lately ... In the wildly popular action film Taken (2008), the daughter of the hero (played by Liam Neeson) is snatched by Albanian sex traffickers while on holiday in Paris. Taken typifies many real anti-trafficking campaigns, presenting trafficking as a context-free evil, a kidnap at random that could happen to anyone, anywhere.Dallas Killers Club. There were three horrible public executions in 1963. The first came in February, when the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul Karim Qassem, was shot by members of the Ba’ath party, to which the United States had furnished money and training. A film clip of Qassem’s corpse, held up by the hair, was shown on Iraqi …Jul 21, 2014 · Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 pages made of ... The Baffler Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt & charitable organization. Our tax-exempt number is 27-4645833.The Humanoid Stain. In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic Age. As the story goes, and there are many versions of it, they had been taking a walk in the woods near the town of Montignac when the dog accompanying them suddenly disappeared. A quick …Baffler Newsletter New email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue. Baffler Newsletter New email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue. My Mother Meets My Father in an Alternate Koru. Tayi Tibble. January 08, 2024. Issue no. 72 I said fuck I feel Māori when I’m swimming in a river. You …The Baffler was founded to challenge that same placid white-collar consensus, and so it is unsurprising that the magazine and Summers would enter the same orbit. While studying at Rochester, Summers made the acquaintance of Chris Lehmann, a journalist and Rochester alumnus who was well-connected in the small-magazine …The Baffler at AWP. Tampa , Florida. As a respite from the throes of networking hell at AWP, The Baffler invites you to Tampa’s premier pirate-themed bar for a night of poetry and free booze. Join us Friday, March 9, at Gaspar’s Grotto (1805 E. 7th Avenue) starting at 6:30 p.m., whereupon we’ll be whipped ... 09.12.2017.Yale University Press, 336 pages. In 1984, the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton described the state of his chosen field as being stuck between a “public relations branch of the literary industry” and “a matter wholly internal to the academies.”. Criticism, he said, was a discipline that had lost its social function, …The New Man of 4chan. “The first of our kind has struck fear into the hearts of America,” announced one commenter last year on the giddily offensive /r9k/ board of the notorious, anarchic site 4chan. “This is only the beginning. The Beta Rebellion has begun. Soon, more of our brothers will take up arms to become martyrs to this revolution A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by The Nation and “form-bending, disobedient” by New York magazine. F. a. c. t. About three weeks after Eastern Kentucky’s disastrous July 2022 flood, I met a disabled older woman named Paula who lived in a particularly isolated part of rural Letcher County. She needed help. Her house had been destroyed by the raging floodwaters, along with most everything she owned: furniture, heirlooms, appliances, …War, he wrote, is the health of the state.”. In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class. The techniques of division mutate like a virus. In battles over unionization, the ...Apr 20, 2023 · Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. Any. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Rhian Sasseen lives in New York. Her work has appeared in The Believer , BOMB , the Poetry Foundation , The Yale Review, and more. He represents an entirely different Jungian archetype—namely, the pan-cultural mythological figure of “the trickster,” who arrives at moments of uncertainty to bring change, often of the bad kind. In the Norse pantheon, the shape-shifting trickster character is Odin’s blood brother, Loki, god of mischief and lies. Unlike in politics, to be a heel in wrestling means to be willing to be hated by everyone. There is no electoral college in wrestling. And therein lies the beating heart of Donald Trump’s all-consuming internal conflict. His biggest fear is not going over as a babyface. But he is a natural heel. The Baffler is delighted to announce that J. W. McCormack is our new fiction editor. He will oversee the relaunch of the magazine’s fiction section with new stories in each bimonthly print issue as well as online fiction offerings every month. He joins Nicole Terez Dutton, The Baffler ’s poetry editor, to round out an …LIVING. Skinny and impeccable, Bill Nighy in Living is the opposite of Brendan Fraser in The Whale, but he too is lonely and dying.This unnecessary remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), scripted by the British-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, retells the story of a quiet bureaucrat who learns he only has a few months to live.It takes place in …A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by The Nation and “form-bending, disobedient” by New York magazine.Learn how The Baffler, a printed and digital magazine of art and criticism, was founded in 1988 to mock the culture of the new economy and the commercial avant-garde. The …Political Fictions. “Our literary elites may all come from the same expensive institutions,” Jessa Crispin writes in issue 62 of The Baffler, “but they are all working stiffs in their own minds, pretending to feel solidarity with the working classes.”. Those literary elites, she writes, have helped flatten contemporary literature into a ...When the UN established a further seventeen Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the first item was “an end to poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030. Alston believes that the World Bank is sticking to its extreme poverty methodology simply to appear to meet the first Sustainable Development Goal.R.I.P., Kill Your TV. When HBO announced it was making a movie of Fahrenheit 451, it was a bit of a headscratcher. Ray Bradbury’s novel depicts a society gone numb on endless loops of home entertainment. Why would HBO, the nation’s great pioneer and name-brand purveyor of endless loops of home …Everybody Hates Marty. The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center by Martin Peretz. 336 pages, Wicked Son. 2023. Look closely at any political project —an electoral campaign, an advocacy group, a small journal of ideas—and more often than not you’ll find that someone very rich …Queer Memories in Beijing. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, an …The concept of “shooting the messenger” predates actual shooting by millennia. It is said that the ancient Greeks so dreaded the receipt of bad news that those charged with its delivery along the proto-postal routes that birthed the modern marathon were at mortal risk upon arrival. Back then, killing a bearer of unwelcome reports was …Nov 17, 2023 · a. c. t. o. r. y. In the weeks since Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip began, following the October 7 Hamas attacks, Republican presidential hopefuls have tripped over themselves to promise voters that, if elected, they will ensure not a single Palestinian refugee is resettled in the United States. “Not all of them are Hamas ... Queer Memories in Beijing. On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, an …Jul 21, 2014 · Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 pages made of ... The Baffler, est. 1988, is a printed and digital magazine of art and criticism, now published six times a year. Our first cycle of four annual issues appeared in 2016. We’re headquartered in New York City, and delivered to subscribers in all fifty U.S. states and abroad. Contributing editors include Barbara Ehrenreich , Susan Faludi , Astra ... The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish six print issues …Give to The Baffler. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Sadie Graham is a writer of essays, reviews, and fiction with work published in Vice, Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, the Toronto Star, and Canadian Notes & Queries. Find her on Twitter @westcoastnoir.Detailed Report. Bias Rating: LEFT. Factual Reporting: HIGH. Country: USA (44/180 Press Freedom) Media Type: Magazine. Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic. …The Trouble With Uplift. Occasionally, on a boring flight, I’ll rewatch the Battle of James Island scene from the magnificent 1989 film, Glory. The scene depicts the first engagement of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first Northern regiment of black troops organized by the Army of the United States to fight against the Confederate ...The concept of “shooting the messenger” predates actual shooting by millennia. It is said that the ancient Greeks so dreaded the receipt of bad news that those charged with its delivery along the proto-postal routes that birthed the modern marathon were at mortal risk upon arrival. Back then, killing a bearer of unwelcome reports was …A loathing for intellectuals was almost a defining characteristic of Trump’s base. At one point in the 2016 campaign, Trump told a crowd gleefully: “I love poorly educated people!”. He didn’t love them enough, apparently, to offer them more than a few crumbs in his huge, one-percent-friendly tax cut the following year.The gamut of stereotypes about black women theatergoers as uncouth, abrasive, and over-the-top comes through in this scene, and fellow spectators, almost all of them white, repeatedly tell Brenda to shut up. When she refuses, one of the men seated near Ghostface, the masked killer, steals his knife and stabs her.The “special snowflake” jeer comes, originally, from the 1996 novel Fight Club, the film of which is every yammering internet man-baby’s favorite piece of ultra-violent Randian misogynist eye candy, where the right and proper answer to boredom and alienation is to take your shirt off and pummel a stranger.On December 13, 2022, one month after SBF’s crypto empire contracted from $32 billion to zero in a matter of days, Forbes published a transcript of testimony that the defrocked mogul, holed up in a Bahamian penthouse, planned to give to Congress.Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 …v. o. s. In November of 2018, fires of “unprecedented speed and ferocity” broke out across Northern and Southern California. The “Camp Fire” in Northern California killed just under ninety people and destroyed approximately nineteen thousand structures. Even with modern safety protocols and building codes, it was the deadliest and most ...Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue ( no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for the first time ever, all of our digitized archives in one place. That’s 25 issues, 432 contributors, 277 salvos, 450 graphics, 172 poems, 73 stories, 3,396 …Bitter Fruit. When the Q’eqchi’ first moved northward, to a place then uninhabited, the land was tranquil and bountiful. There was maize to harvest, leafy hierba mora to forage, deer and the spotted tepezcuintle rodent to hunt. If you wanted fish, there were plenty. 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