Index

Here’s The Baffler index—every salvo, story, poem, and graphic we could identify from the magazine’s first thin and precious issuance in the summer of 1988 to, well, now. Trying to make sense of it all? Seeing something that you want permission to reproduce? Thinking of becoming a subscriber? You get unfettered access to the whole dern thing. Go, click, read.

Salvos

Stories

Poems

Graphics

Ancestors

Introductions and Manifestos

Baffler • “Introduction” Issue 18 • “Introduction” Issue 17 • “Introduction” Issue 15 • “Introduction” Issue 3 • “Introduction” Issue 2 • “Introduction” Issue 1
Ellis, Thomas Sayers • “Once Upon a Town” Issue 23
Flynn, Patrick JB • “Seen Dave?” Issue 25
Frank, Thomas • “Totentanz” Issue 18
Lehmann, Chris • “In Mayhem We Trust” Issue 28
Mulcahey, David • “Totentanz” Issue 18
O’Neil, Conor • “Totentanz” Issue 18
Summers, John • “Bedtime for Democracy” Issue 29 • “To the Ninety-Nines” Issue 27 • “All in Yer Head” Issue 26 • “Friends in Low Places” Issue 25 • “The Rites of Play” Issue 24 • “Magic Brain” Issue 23 • “Negative Capability” Issue 22 • “Only a Dream” Issue 21 • “This Cradle Won’t Rock” Issue 20 • “Decrescendo” Issue 19

Odds and Ends

Web Specials

Rasmussen, Chris • “Traffic and Weather”

Blog

Appelbaum, Robert • “Nausea in the UK” May 19, 2015 • “Down with Dynamism” May 12, 2015
Appelbaum, Robert • “The Joys of Consumption” July 3, 2015 • “A Work in Progress” March 5, 2015 • “The Merchants of Europe” Feb. 24, 2015 • “Trashing the University of Athens” Feb. 11, 2015 • “Anarchy in Exarchia” Feb. 4, 2015 • “Democracy in Greece, for Now” Jan. 26, 2015 • “One Dinner Too Far: Posh and The Riot Club” Jan. 20, 2015 • “Sandwich, Inc.” Dec. 18, 2014 • “Out of Hand, or Hand to Mouth?” Nov. 12, 2014 • “Indignation Nation” Oct. 17, 2014 • “Hack Attack Goes to Hollywood” Sept. 17, 2014 • “Monopolies and Kindly Octopi” Sept. 2, 2014
Banks, David A. • “Towards a Politics of Delight and Desire” Sept. 25, 2014
Baumer, Jim • “Getting Crumbs in Portland’s Food Revolution” Dec. 11, 2014
Beauchamp, Scott • “Bending Toward Real Justice” July 2, 2015 • “It Sounds Like a Melody” June 25, 2015 • “No Big Chill for Us” June 18, 2015 • “The American Way” June 11, 2015 • “The Kurds Are Alright” June 4, 2015 • “It’s Always Mourning in America” May 28, 2015 • “Stacking the Deck” May 21, 2015 • “The Empire Strikes Back” May 14, 2015 • “Knows a Little of What’s Going On” May 7, 2015 • “Murder by Other Means” April 30, 2015 • “The Mall of American Progress” April 23, 2015 • “The Most Contaminated Place in the World” April 16, 2015 • “Spinner in Chief” April 9, 2015 • “Absent Reason” April 2, 2015 • “No Sympathy for Poors from the Silver Hordes” March 26, 2015 • “David Petraeus Does D.C.” March 19, 2015 • “The Iran Letter: Explaining the Joke” March 12, 2015 • “For Love of Country (and Money)” March 5, 2015 • “Bad Faith and Bull from ACA Critics” Feb. 27, 2015 • “Guns, Money, and Ukraine” Feb. 19, 2015 • “Obama in the Land of the Blind” Feb. 12, 2015 • “Walker, Wisconsin Ranger” Feb. 5, 2015 • “Iowa Doesn’t Matter” Jan. 29, 2015 • “Constrained Debate and Distractions at the SOTU” Jan. 21, 2015 • “Fear, the Ultimate Trump Card” Jan. 14, 2015 • “Research for Rent, Solutions for Sale” Jan. 6, 2015 • “The Glossy Magazines of the Islamic State” Dec. 1, 2014 • “The American Soldier at the End of History” Nov. 11, 2014 • “The Military’s Latest Enemy: Climate Change” Nov. 5, 2014 • “The Jobs vs. the Environment Myth Lives On” Oct. 16, 2014 • “Rhetoric Meets Reality for Married Gay Veterans” Sept. 22, 2014 • “Grassroots and Astroturf School Reform” Sept. 5, 2014 • “Banana Republics and Bad Apples Abroad” Aug. 22, 2014 • “Private Prisons, Public Cash” Aug. 5, 2014 • “When Lockheed Gives You Lemons” July 18, 2014 • “Not All Veterans” July 3, 2014 • “On Robot Soldiers and the Recession” June 26, 2014 • “ISIS, Blackwater, and the Billion-Dollar Boondoggle” June 17, 2014 • “Bowe Bergdahl: Hero, Victim, Traitor” June 5, 2014
Bivins, Mike • “Flint’s Dirty Drinking Water Conundrum” Jan. 28, 2015
Block, Jennifer • “The “Pernicious Trend” of DIY Baby Food” June 12, 2014
Bower, Matthew • “I, Start-up” Dec. 4, 2014
Bray, Chris • “An American History of Botched Executions” July 30, 2014 • “Questioning Authority & Other Forbidden Ideas” March 27, 2014 • “Debates Outside the Dichotomy” March 25, 2014 • “Empty Word Clouds” March 20, 2014 • “The Risks to Rent-a-Soldiers” March 18, 2014 • “Wising Up About “High Politics”” March 13, 2014 • “Kerry’s History Lesson” March 11, 2014 • “The Sensible Paranoia of a National Security State” March 6, 2014 • “Commodify Your Wiretaps” March 4, 2014 • “Health Care Reform Does Not Mean Better Actual Health Care, Sorry” Feb. 27, 2014 • “Epic Battles Over Secrecy Will Be Ignored by Uninterested Public” Feb. 24, 2014 • “Searching for Nuance in the Charter School Debate” Feb. 20, 2014 • “We’re Going to Need Some More Professors (Or Not)” Feb. 18, 2014 • “Baby Steps with Eric Holder” Feb. 13, 2014 • “Minimum Wage Debate Focusing Less on Poverty, More on Lobbying” Feb. 11, 2014 • “Breaking News: Opinion Page Stilted, Old-Fashioned” Feb. 6, 2014 • “Fox News: Not Worthy of Our Attention Until We Say So” Feb. 4, 2014 • “Unemployment Rate Not So Bad for Employed People” Jan. 30, 2014 • “Wrong if Republican, Right if Democrat” Jan. 28, 2014 • “The Wolf of Wall Street, Print Version” Jan. 23, 2014 • “It’s Vitally Important that Your Government Continue to Spy on You” Jan. 21, 2014 • “Reporting from a Safe Distance” Jan. 16, 2014 • “Robert Gates, the CliffsNotes version” Jan. 14, 2014 • “When in “Doubt”, “Strategize”” Jan. 9, 2014 • “New Data Proves ACA Made of Candy!” Jan. 7, 2014 • “Fun and Games Ahead in 2014” Jan. 2, 2014 • “Pot, Meet Kettle” Dec. 27, 2013 • “Enjoy Your G-Rated College Learning Experience” Dec. 17, 2013 • “Rest Easy: World of Warcraft Officially Not a Terrorism Breeding Ground” Dec. 12, 2013 • “Changes in Drone Policy Starting to Show Effects” Dec. 10, 2013 • “British Government Has Pinpointed the REAL Problem” Dec. 5, 2013 • “Conversation about Health Care No Longer Remotely about Health Care” Dec. 2, 2013 • “Many Opinions but Little Nuance on Iran Deal” Nov. 26, 2013 • “Business Is Booming in the Halls of Government” Nov. 21, 2013 • “Same Song, New Tempo from Politico” Nov. 19, 2013 • “Big Government v. Small Government Not So Important As Functional Government” Nov. 14, 2013 • “Big Brother Might Be Watching” Nov. 12, 2013 • “Federal Intervention in Health Care is Old News but Not Always Good News” Nov. 7, 2013 • “Throwing the Constitution Out With the Bath Water” Nov. 5, 2013 • “This Frisk Has Been Brought to You By…” Oct. 31, 2013 • “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Prettiest Quagmire of Them All?” Oct. 30, 2013 • “HHS Begs A-Team to Take Pity on Their Fools” Oct. 24, 2013 • “Unmanned War Crimes” Oct. 22, 2013 • “A Love Letter to a Columnist” Oct. 17, 2013 • “A Safe Space Nuzzling the Powerful” Oct. 15, 2013 • “Incredible Exploding Contracted Government Stuff” Oct. 10, 2013 • “The Eau de Politic” Oct. 8, 2013 • “Commodify Your Dissent with VISA” Oct. 3, 2013 • “Moving Walls” Sept. 25, 2013 • “Under Fire: Empire and the Politics of Peace” Sept. 19, 2013 • “Diagnosis: Acute ThinkTankerism” Sept. 17, 2013 • “The Good, the Bad, and the Rhetorically Challenged” Sept. 12, 2013 • “The Great American War Dance” Sept. 10, 2013
Burnside, Sarah • “Homo Economicus Slouches Toward Retirement” June 1, 2015 • “Can Humor Be Revolutionary?” Nov. 6, 2014 • ““So, What Else Do You Do?”” Oct. 23, 2014 • “Laurie Penny Speaks the Unspeakable” Aug. 25, 2014 • “Anne Manne and the “Asshole Effect”” Aug. 13, 2014 • “Why “American” Is a Bad Word in Australia” June 19, 2014
Cagle, Susie • ““Feminism for What?” – Illustrated” Dec. 2, 2014
Chayka, Kyle • “The Grand Viziers of the VC Economy” March 6, 2015 • “Gentrifying the Web” Feb. 20, 2015 • “Musk on Mars: Silicon Valley Disrupts the Universe” Oct. 29, 2014 • “The Ideas Bubble” July 29, 2014 • “Karl’s Struggle, Our Narcissism” June 10, 2014 • “Silicon Valley’s Office Politic” June 6, 2014 • “The Domino Sugar Refinery and the Art of Real Estate” May 13, 2014 • “Your Guide to “Disintermediation,” the New “Disruption”” April 10, 2014 • “Sit-Ups for Start-Ups” March 24, 2014
Clarke, Jonathan • “The Economist as Culture Hero: Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance” Feb. 27, 2015
Clarke, Diana • “Cosmo for Queers, or, How to Sell a Woman to Herself” May 8, 2014
Clary, Grayson • “Gary Hart and Gonzo’s Ghost” Oct. 9, 2014
Cohen, Katya G. • “How to Ease the Burden of the 1 Percent” Oct. 22, 2014
Cox, Ana Marie • “The Plea and Promise of “Hands Up”” Dec. 3, 2014
Cullen, Darren • “Payday Loans 4 Kids!” Nov. 3, 2014
Davies, Dan • “Q & A with Evgeny Morozov and Dan Davies” Dec. 7, 2015
Davis, Charles • “Show Those Pearly Whites” June 30, 2015 • ““Payment on an Unpaid Basis”” Oct. 1, 2014
DeVries, Benjamin Henry • “On Scarcity’s Appeal” Sept. 16, 2014
Deb, Siddhartha • “Delhi Needs Another Hero” Feb. 18, 2015 • “Death of an Enemy: Warren Anderson, 1920-2014” Nov. 10, 2014 • “Commencement” May 27, 2014
Doyle, Sady • “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (Redux)” April 28, 2015 • ““Some Other Woman” for President 2016” April 21, 2015 • “Game of Thrones, Meet Tony Robbins” April 14, 2015 • “He’s the King of Saving the World” April 7, 2015 • “Coming-of-(Middle)-Age Tales” March 31, 2015 • “Cinderella Is Dead” March 24, 2015 • “Ban St. Patrick’s Day” March 17, 2015 • “Breaking Sitcom Habits with Kimmy Schmidt” March 10, 2015 • “Utopia: The Final Frontier” March 3, 2015 • “Learning from Kanye: A Thought Experiment” Feb. 24, 2015 • “Propaganda, Power, and Porn in Fifty Shades” Feb. 17, 2015 • “The Woman in the Room” Feb. 10, 2015 • “A Letter to the King” Feb. 3, 2015 • “The Utopian Vision of Pawnee, Indiana” Jan. 27, 2015 • “Wes Anderson’s Class Acts” Jan. 20, 2015 • “On Wealth and Women on TV” Jan. 12, 2015 • “Kate Tempest’s Recession-Era Epic” Dec. 22, 2014
Duffy, Michael • “I Can’t Recall: A Walker Update” June 24, 2014
Editor’s Note, The Editors • “Leonard Nimoy was BAFFLED!” Feb. 27, 2015 • “The Best of The Baffler in 2014” Dec. 31, 2014 • “On Pelf” Nov. 10, 2014 • “Welcome to Our New Website” July 21, 2014
Elven, Lucie • “Q & A with Neda Semnani” Jan. 11, 2016
Fine, Zachary • “The Specter of Snapchat” Sept. 4, 2014
Fraade, Jordan • “The Irrational Exuberance of New York Real Estate” March 13, 2015 • “Exile on H Street” Oct. 8, 2014 • “Tax Inversions and the Dems Who Love Them” July 25, 2014 • “On “Density,” the Most Slippery Word in Urban Planning” May 22, 2014 • “On D.C. “Nerds” and Outsider-Wannabes” May 5, 2014 • “How to Make a Bikeshare Fair and Functional” April 8, 2014
Frank, Thomas • “For Whom the Phone Rings: The Genius Cult” Sept. 29, 2015 • “Finally, Wall Street Gets Put on Trial” Sept. 8, 2014
Frost, Amber A’Lee • “Squashing Call-Out Culture, Gently” March 23, 2016 • “Bring On the Unisex Onesies” March 9, 2016 • “Sympathy for the Devil” Feb. 24, 2016 • “Letting the Draft In” Feb. 11, 2016 • “My Kind of Misogyny: I Don’t Care If They Call a Warhawk “Cankles”” Dec. 3, 2015 • “Flakes Alive!” June 12, 2015
Gabel, J.C. • “Q&A: Jason Leopold on Addiction and Recovery, Journalism Mistakes and Mea Culpas, and More” Dec. 5, 2014 • “Q&A: Mary O’Hara on Austerity and Inequality in the UK” Oct. 10, 2014
Gais, Hannah • ““He Sees You When You’re Sleeping”: The Baffler Gift Guide” Dec. 21, 2015
Geier, Kathleen • “What’s Ahead at “Feminism for What?”” Sept. 10, 2014 • “Inequality, the Flavor of the Month” July 11, 2014 • “Ikea and the Business Case for a Living Wage” June 27, 2014 • “The Democrats’ Working Family Policies: Less than Meets the Eye” June 25, 2014 • ““Orange Is the New Black,” a Prison Dramedy with a Too-Soft Center” June 24, 2014 • “Debtors’ Prisons and Other Catastrophes” June 18, 2014 • “Our Deadly Culture of Overwork” June 13, 2014 • “Racial Inequality and the Economics of Reparations” June 9, 2014 • “Polarizing Plutocracy: Our Broken Higher Education System” June 5, 2014 • “Getting Real about Closing the Gender Pay Gap” May 27, 2014 • “The Trigger-Happy University” May 23, 2014 • “Protests Against Commencement Speakers: Hard-won But Hollow” May 19, 2014 • “What Piketty’s Neoliberal Critics Get Wrong” May 15, 2014 • “Child Care, Elder Care, and the Last Feminist Frontier” May 12, 2014 • “What the “Mad Men” Economy Can Teach Us About Ours” May 9, 2014 • “Conservative Family Trees and the Cult of Victimhood” May 7, 2014 • “The Apple-Samsung Patent Wars and Our Broken IP System” May 2, 2014 • “Rahm Emanuel, Mayor One Percent” April 29, 2014 • “What Piketty’s Conservative Critics Get Wrong” April 28, 2014 • “What Workplace Intolerance Really Looks Like” April 21, 2014 • “Proof of Wealth’s Power Over Policy” April 10, 2014 • “Why Should “Flash Boys” Shock Us?” April 4, 2014 • “Class War with a Smiley Face” March 28, 2014 • “Bill Gates, Regular Guy” March 21, 2014
Gharib, Ali • “Undocumented Immigrants and Libertarian Refuseniks at the Border” July 16, 2014
Gilbert, Geoff • “Media Misdeeds and Blind Spots” Feb. 9, 2015
Giraldi, William • “Victor Serge, The Unconquered” May 25, 2015
Gittlitz, A.M. • “The Zombie Movie Without Zombies” Oct. 30, 2014
Gogola, Tom • “A St. George Segregationist Update” Aug. 18, 2014
Gold, Hannah K. • “Why Aetna Should Pay Reparations” July 24, 2014 • “The Hope and Despair of the Mansplain” June 4, 2014 • “The Stats and Stories of American Healthcare” May 16, 2014
Goldman, Jake • “Experiments in Extreme Luxury” Dec. 12, 2014
Goodrich, M.B. • “The Perpetual Sales Pitch” Aug. 29, 2014
Gradert, Kenny • “Undercover Boss: A Christmas Story” Dec. 23, 2014
Graeber, David • “David Graeber “Defiantly Having Fun” at The Baffler no. 22 Release Party” May 2, 2013
Hallman, J.C. • “The Biddable Muse” Nov. 12, 2015
Hamilton, Shawn • “Freedom Fries: McDonald’s and the Fourteenth Amendment” March 26, 2015
Hamrah, A. S. • “Flu in the Face” Feb. 4, 2016 • “Freedom of Choice Degree Zero” May 26, 2015
Helms, Andrew • “Pro-Sports Moochers and the True Cost of “Student Athletes”” June 30, 2014 • “Hungry for Success: A Sports Myth” May 6, 2014 • “Free Your Mind, Win the World Cup?” April 16, 2014
Isserman, Maurice • “It’s Time to Shut Everest Down” May 1, 2014
Jaffe, Sarah • “Getting Your Irish Up” Feb. 26, 2016
Kauffman, L.A. • “The Disruption This Time” Dec. 8, 2014
Kaufman, Brett Max • “On Shooting the Messenger” Dec. 10, 2014 • “Dragnet Surveillance and the English Language” April 2, 2014
Kirchner, Lauren • “Q&A: Judy Wajcman on the Scapegoating of the Email Inbox, Busyness as a Status Marker, the Division of Labor at Home, and More” Jan. 23, 2015 • “Q&A: Cynthia M. Duncan on Poverty and Politics in Rural America” Jan. 9, 2015 • “The Baffler Guide to Gift Guides” Dec. 24, 2014 • “Q&A: Ian Klaus on the History of Fraudsters, Fakes, the Financial Press, and More” Dec. 19, 2014 • “Q&A: Nicholas Carr on Computers, Toilet Technology, the Hollowing-Out of the Middle Class, and More” Dec. 12, 2014 • “Happy Birthday, James Agee” Nov. 26, 2014 • “Q&A: Erwin Chemerinsky on What’s Broken in the Supreme Court, and How to Fix It” Nov. 21, 2014 • “Q&A: Ewa Glapka on Bridal Magazines’ Counterintuitive Appeal, the Commodification of the Modern Wedding, and More” Nov. 14, 2014 • “Q&A: James K. Galbraith on the Myth of Perpetual Growth, How Language Shapes Economic Thought, and More” Nov. 7, 2014 • “Election Day Reading from The Baffler” Nov. 4, 2014 • “Captive Labor, Capitalism’s Best Idea” Oct. 24, 2014 • “Happy Birthday, Jean-Arthur Rimbaud” Oct. 20, 2014 • “Q&A: Gary Greenberg on Small-Town Democracy, Why Politicians are Sociopaths, and More” Oct. 3, 2014 • “Now PBS and Harper’s Both Have a Koch Problem” Sept. 30, 2014 • “Think Tanks for Sale” Sept. 8, 2014 • “This Just In: “Responsible Consumption” is Bogus” Sept. 3, 2014 • “Labor Day Reading from The Baffler” Aug. 29, 2014 • “We Do Actually Know What’s the Matter with Kansas” Aug. 20, 2014 • “Reality TV Workers and Walkouts” Aug. 19, 2014 • “S.W.A.T. USA” Aug. 18, 2014 • “The Masons, the Rotarians, and You” Aug. 11, 2014 • “When London Burned” Aug. 6, 2014 • “Rick Perlstein on America’s Nervous Breakdown” Aug. 4, 2014 • “CNBC’s Carnival of Crazy” July 15, 2014 • “The Village Voice Union Walkout and an Alt-Weekly Obituary” July 1, 2014 • “The Joy and Shame of Junket Journalism” June 25, 2014 • “Happy Birthday, Jean-Paul Sartre” June 20, 2014 • “Commodify Your Body Electric” June 12, 2014 • “All the News That’s Fit to DeMint” June 4, 2014 • “Happy Birthday, Marquis de Sade” June 2, 2014 • “Why Somaly Mam’s Lies Matter” May 30, 2014 • “Remembering Christopher Lasch” May 29, 2014 • “Happy Birthday, Margaret Fuller” May 22, 2014 • ““Dilbert” and Dissent in the Workplace” May 16, 2014 • “Think Tanks’ Transparency Problem” May 8, 2014 • “The Banker Boys After the Crash” May 2, 2014 • “The Long Arm of the NRA” April 28, 2014 • “If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit” April 24, 2014 • “The Tyranny of Time Management” April 22, 2014 • “Pulitzers of Bafflers Past” April 15, 2014 • “Some Recommended Reading for “Mad Men” Fans” April 11, 2014 • “Soaring Profits, Sinking Wages, and the Neoliberal Nightmare” April 9, 2014 • “Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Wild God”” April 8, 2014 • “The Commodification of Kurt Cobain” April 7, 2014 • “Student-Athletes of the World, Unite!” March 27, 2014 • “Candy Crushin’ All the Way to the Bank” March 25, 2014 • “On Class and Work in HBO’s “Girls”” March 24, 2014 • “Let Them Eat Dogma, Revisited” March 20, 2014 • “Fed Games” March 19, 2014 • “Erin Go Branding” March 17, 2014 • “Let Them Eat Art” March 14, 2014 • “Murdoch + Vice = Branded Content Bros” March 12, 2014 • “California’s Yuppie Nerd Culture” March 12, 2014 • “SXSW, Pictured” March 10, 2014
Korn, Sandra • “Veritas and Vineyards” Feb. 9, 2015
Kreitner, Richard • “A Tale of Two Citations” Dec. 15, 2015
Kubis, Dan • “The Shrinking Power of Punk” Feb. 2, 2015
Larson, Jordan • “Harassment in the Online Workplace” Sept. 26, 2014
Lately, Dale • “Selling the Wind” April 6, 2015 • “Taking a Cat Photo Approach to History” March 27, 2015 • “Peer-to-Peer Pressure” March 20, 2015 • “Project Management for the Soul” March 4, 2015 • “Silicon Valley’s Cult of Nothing” Feb. 17, 2015 • “Nostalgia 2.0” Jan. 30, 2015 • “Gambling on Armageddon” Dec. 30, 2014 • “Get Up, Light Up (Get Rich)” Dec. 9, 2014 • “Hacking the Planet: What Could Go Wrong?” Nov. 24, 2014 • “Predictive Policing and Automated Peace” Oct. 27, 2014 • “The Birth of the Time-Motion Human” Oct. 2, 2014 • “An Army of Eyeballs: The Rise of the Advertisee” Sept. 12, 2014
Lefkowitz, Jason A. • “Weighing the Price of Safety in OSHA’s New Video Game” July 22, 2014
Lehmann, Chris • “In a Big Country, Dreams Stay with You” March 24, 2016 • “The Breitbart Betrayals” March 17, 2016 • “Straight Out of Centrist Casting” March 10, 2016 • “Your Media Future: Cheesy and Skeezy” March 3, 2016 • “Oh, the Civility!” Feb. 25, 2016 • “Power to the Pixels” Feb. 18, 2016 • “Hillary’s Handlers: We Need Some Muscle Here” Feb. 10, 2016 • “Field of Dreams” Feb. 3, 2016 • “The Loudest Voice Not in the Room” Jan. 28, 2016 • “Pounding Sanders” Jan. 21, 2016 • “All the President’s Chums” Jan. 6, 2016 • “High Caliber Television” Dec. 17, 2015 • “Media Abets Trump’s Shock-Jock Statesmanship” Dec. 9, 2015 • “Thought Leaders as Loss Leaders” Dec. 2, 2015 • “For Chyron Out Loud” Nov. 20, 2015 • “Hell’s Pundits” May 20, 2015 • “Arrogance and Deference at the New York Fed” Jan. 7, 2015 • “The Smarmies of the Night (Revisited)” Dec. 19, 2014 • “The Beltway Media Shuck-Down” Oct. 1, 2013 • “Immoral Inequivalencies” Sept. 24, 2013 • “Forbes Columnist Demands More Perks for the One Percent” Sept. 17, 2013 • “One Thing That the NSA Got Right: Steve Jobs Commanded a Vast Legion of Zombies” Sept. 10, 2013 • “For-Profit Journalism Whiffs the For-Profit Education Story” Aug. 16, 2013 • “The Fraud That Failed” Aug. 13, 2013 • “Ronald Reagan, God of the Sea” Aug. 1, 2013 • “ThreatWatch, Surveil Thyself” Aug. 1, 2013 • “This (De-Politicized) American Life” July 30, 2013 • “Cheaper iPhone in the Pipeline–with Fetching Cases the Color of Workers’ Blood!” July 30, 2013 • “When Playbooks Attack” July 26, 2013 • “My City Was Pawned” July 26, 2013 • “Harvard Governance 101: Scrutiny Is in the Eye of the Beholder” July 25, 2013 • “Fleecing the Sheepskin Set” July 25, 2013 • “Speed Metal” July 24, 2013 • “Cash Crop” July 24, 2013
Lingan, John • “Voices of the Village” Sept. 24, 2015
Magnanti, Brooke • “What “Yes” in Scotland Might Have Meant” Sept. 23, 2014 • “Your Guide to Fourth-Wave Feminist Underwear” July 21, 2014 • “Zombie Statistics on Sex Work” June 9, 2014
Massey, Alana • “You Can Find Capitalism in Da Club” Sept. 24, 2014 • “The Rise of the Benevolent Data Pillage” Sept. 3, 2014 • “Hide the Husbands, Prostitution’s on the Interwebs” Aug. 28, 2014 • “Higher Ed Pays a High Price for Mediocrity” June 20, 2014 • “The Last Days of Abercrombie & Fitch” May 20, 2014 • “Shaming Sexism Isn’t Prudery” April 16, 2014
McCormack, Noah • “Friends without Benefits” May 30, 2014 • “Do As He Says, Not As He Does. That Would Be Unprofitable.” Feb. 12, 2014 • “The Debtpocalypse Is Always Upon Us” Jan. 24, 2014 • “The Obama Method, or, How to Complicate Everything” Oct. 23, 2013 • “Catotonic History” Oct. 8, 2013
McIntosh, Fergus • “How to Move an Island” July 24, 2015
Merrigan, Tara Wanda • “Notes from the Underdogs” Jan. 5, 2015
Moattar, Daniel • “The People’s Republic of Troy” Jan. 22, 2016
Moore, Anne Elizabeth • “The Well-Trod Path: Nick Kristof at Home” Feb. 12, 2015 • “The Art of Con” Nov. 17, 2014 • “Greenpeace Wins Again! But So Does Big Oil” Oct. 10, 2014 • “The Return of America’s Favorite Anti-Trafficker” Sept. 29, 2014 • “Why the House of Skeeveball Still Stands” July 17, 2014 • “The Partial Promise of Feminine Hygiene Patenting” June 3, 2014 • “What Women Wear” April 22, 2014
Morozov, Evgeny • “Q & A with Evgeny Morozov and Dan Davies” Dec. 7, 2015
Newell, Jim • “It Will Just Keep Getting Easier to Oppose the Death Penalty” April 30, 2014 • “Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy, and What People are “Given”” April 29, 2014 • “Have Assault Rifle, Will Travel” April 25, 2014 • “Billionaire Donors and True Believers” April 23, 2014 • “Rich Kids Philanthropy Club” April 21, 2014 • “The Nonsensical Sexism of the “Grandma Hillary” Storyline” April 18, 2014 • ““Boats ‘N Hoes,” PACs & Frats” April 17, 2014 • “Virginia Republicans, United in Stubbornness” April 14, 2014 • “A Pointless Plot to Oust John Boehner” April 11, 2014 • “Handwringing and Hypocrisy Over Campaign Cash” April 9, 2014 • “Talking Nice and Playing Dirty with the Bush Family” April 8, 2014 • “Mozilla, Mountain View, and the Mean Ol’ Gays” April 4, 2014 • “The Next Phase of the Obamacare Battle” April 2, 2014 • “The Bigger the Checkbook, the Bigger the Bull” March 31, 2014 • “A Weasely Way to Fight a Law” March 26, 2014 • “It’s the Democratic Party’s Turn to Hate Nate Silver” March 24, 2014 • “The Right-Wing Book Market is Dying a Free-Market Death” March 21, 2014 • “Nazi Name-calling and Non-apologies” March 19, 2014 • “Who Cares What the Surgeon General Thinks About Guns?” March 18, 2014 • “The Real Reason for the Democrats’ Obsession with the Koch Brothers” March 14, 2014 • “The Patronizing Pew Poll on the Millennial Generation” March 10, 2014 • “Presenting: The Baffler SAT” March 7, 2014 • “What’s the Matter with White Dudes?” March 5, 2014 • “Microsoft’s Scroogley Strategy” March 3, 2014 • “Climate Will Change Faster Than We Will” Feb. 26, 2014 • “House of Cards Is a Dark Fantasy of Effective Government” Feb. 24, 2014 • “From the Office of Pointless Budget Maneuvering” Feb. 21, 2014 • “Google Plus You Equals $$$$” Feb. 19, 2014 • “Iron Man 4: Iron Man Fights Income Inequality” Feb. 17, 2014 • “Hip New Trend for the Young People: Caring about the Deficit!” Feb. 14, 2014 • “Congress Stuns World with Minor Hint of Functionality” Feb. 12, 2014 • “Obamacare May Also Mean No More Employee Parking Spots” Feb. 10, 2014 • “Glenn Greenwald Will Not Be Doing Trust Falls with the U.S.” Feb. 7, 2014 • “In Search of Unspun News” Feb. 5, 2014 • “America at its Beautifullest” Feb. 3, 2014 • “Executive (In)Action!” Jan. 29, 2014 • “State of the Union: Partly Cloudy, High Likelihood of Tedium” Jan. 27, 2014 • “Campaign Fraud Doesn’t Have to Be This Difficult, Dinesh D’Souza” Jan. 24, 2014 • “That Wasn’t Just Any Snow. That Was Socialist Snow.” Jan. 22, 2014 • “It’s Hard Out There for a Dem in the House” Jan. 17, 2014 • “Prepare Yourself. The Gun Debate Is SOLVED” Jan. 17, 2014 • “Breaking News: Rich Person Gets Away with Rich Person Crime” Jan. 15, 2014 • “Time to Play Deflection Bingo with Christie Defenders” Jan. 13, 2014 • “Someone Please Find Some New Politicians for Virginia” Jan. 10, 2014 • “A Minor Speed Bump on the Road to a Christie Presidency” Jan. 9, 2014 • “A Mid-Term Election Will Chase Those Doldrums Away” Jan. 8, 2014 • “Does Anyone Have Many Millions of Dollars Ezra Klein Can Borrow?” Jan. 3, 2014 • “The Year in Political Idiocy” Dec. 30, 2013 • “Your Future President/Governor/Senator Is Having a Small New Hampshire Problem” Dec. 23, 2013 • “Have You Heard About This Real America? It’s Just Beyond the Borders of Washington, D.C.” Dec. 20, 2013 • “2013: The Year of the Great Footie Pajama Debate Over the Fate of Millennials” Dec. 18, 2013 • “New Obstacle in Gun Control Discussion: Lack of Interest in Enforcement” Dec. 16, 2013 • ““Selfie” Non Scandal Proves Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” Dec. 13, 2013 • “Democrats Enjoy Trolling Now, Will Not Enjoy Actual Troll in Senate” Dec. 11, 2013 • “For Their Next Trick, Democrats Will Attempt to Distract You from the Issues with Obamacare” Dec. 9, 2013 • “Temporary Amnesia Strikes Some upon Death of Nelson Mandela” Dec. 6, 2013 • “Amazon Is Sending a Fleet of Terrifying Flying Robots to Deliver Your Packages” Dec. 4, 2013 • “Congress Elected by States with Wildly Divergent Opinions Mysteriously Deadlocked” Dec. 3, 2013 • “The Swan Song of the Neocon” Nov. 27, 2013 • “Don’t Say the Magic Word” Nov. 25, 2013 • “Adult Babies React as Expected When Favorite Toy Taken Away” Nov. 22, 2013 • “HULK SMASH Not Actually Effective Solution to Civic Issues” Nov. 20, 2013 • “Game Change 2016: Whichever Candidate Polls Best” Nov. 18, 2013 • “Reporting from the Institute of Made Up Institutes” Nov. 15, 2013 • “Take Me Out to the Suburbs” Nov. 13, 2013 • “Would Our Nation’s Not Yet President Lie to You?” Nov. 11, 2013 • “Don’t Worry, Income Inequality Doomsayers: a New Think Tank Has Arrived to Solve the Problem” Nov. 8, 2013 • “America Hearts Churchill’s Giant Bust” Nov. 6, 2013 • “November Cold SNAP” Nov. 4, 2013 • “A Fine-Ass Committee” Oct. 29, 2013 • “Immigration and the Poisoned Well” Oct. 25, 2013 • “Sheldon Adelson Strikes Again” Oct. 23, 2013 • “Tales from the Health Care Exchanges” Oct. 21, 2013 • “You’re a Strange One, Mister Graham” Oct. 16, 2013 • “Cruz’s Value Voters Vortex” Oct. 11, 2013 • “Cheney and His Clowns” Oct. 9, 2013 • “Heritage Hearts Shutdowns” Oct. 7, 2013 • “Pennsylvania’s Master of Analogy” Oct. 4, 2013 • “Throwdown at the Memorial” Oct. 3, 2013 • “CNBC Treasures Jamie Dimon’s Enormous Bank” Sept. 30, 2013 • “All Hail the Shutdown Circle Jerk” Sept. 27, 2013 • “Save Us from the Welfare Surfers” Sept. 25, 2013 • “The Practical Wife” Sept. 23, 2013 • “The Summers Time Blues” Sept. 18, 2013 • “The Darby Principle” Sept. 16, 2013 • “The Imaginarium of Dr. O’Bagy” Sept. 13, 2013 • “A Pax On All Your Houses” Sept. 11, 2013 • “I Was a Teenage Gramlich” March 30, 2012
Newman, Kurt • “The Marquis de Sade’s Executive MBA” Oct. 21, 2014
O’Donovan, Caroline • “The Revolution Will Be Venture Funded” Feb. 6, 2015 • “Simple Notebooks for Complicated Times” Jan. 15, 2015 • “Boston’s Literary Legacy, Mapped and Apped” Sept. 9, 2014
Olen, Helaine • “America: Dangerous Curve Ahead” May 18, 2015 • “Behind Every Fortune Lies Nail Polish” May 11, 2015 • “Pep Talks for Spinsters” May 4, 2015 • “Politics: You Lose, You Snooze” April 27, 2015 • “The Humane Thing to Do” April 13, 2015 • “California, by the Nuts” April 6, 2015 • “Focus Group-ing Our Way to Prosperity” March 23, 2015 • “Poor Stories from Brooks and Douthat” March 16, 2015 • “The Death of the Millionaire Next Door” March 9, 2015 • “America Saves, America Shames” March 2, 2015 • “The Labradoodle Racket” Feb. 23, 2015 • “Zuckerberg Gets Schooled in Newark” May 15, 2014
Olives, Glen • “Good Politics, Bad Policy: Our Disastrous War on Drugs” Dec. 17, 2014
Orr, Niela • “The Branded, the Sponsored, and the Native” June 26, 2015 • “Ritualized Denial” June 19, 2015 • “Spoof Vs. Spy” June 12, 2015 • “Not Quite the People’s Court” June 5, 2015 • “The Fantastic Four Under Fire” May 29, 2015 • “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack.” May 22, 2015 • “Spare Change” May 15, 2015 • “What Bono Does Next Won’t Shock You” May 8, 2015 • “Nights of the Living Dread” May 1, 2015 • “An American Marriage, Revisited” April 24, 2015 • “The One That Brings You Choices” April 17, 2015 • “Town Without Purpose” April 10, 2015 • “Viva El Jay” April 3, 2015
Osterweil, Willie • “Hollybaba’s Blockbusters” Nov. 25, 2014 • “Hollywood Hijinks and the Films of Empire” July 1, 2014 • “Democrats Are the Real Party of War” June 16, 2014 • “Scab Cinema and Pseudo-Reality TV” May 29, 2014 • “Hollywood’s Love Affair with Surveillance” May 12, 2014
Paiella, Gabriella • “Selling a Celebrity Lifestyle” Sept. 15, 2014
Payack, Peter • “Blowing in the Wind, part two” July 31, 2014
Pein, Corey • “Donald Trump, Trickster God” March 4, 2016 • “The Unbearable Emptiness of Politics as Code” June 30, 2015 • “Bloomberg’s Baby Davos” June 22, 2015 • “Eminent Bromain: Bud Light Invades the Rockies” Sept. 11, 2014 • “The Guns of Ferguson: When Tyranny Really Comes into Town, the NRA Goes into Hiding” Aug. 14, 2014 • “Amway Journalism” July 28, 2014 • “Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich” May 19, 2014
Peters, Tim • “Working Woes at the Strand, Illustrated” Dec. 15, 2014
Petersen, Anne Helen • “Labor Politics and the Liberal Arts Nanny” April 14, 2014 • “Beyoncé, Kim, and the Politics of Celebrity Labor” March 31, 2014
Pilkington, Philip • “Play, Dissected” Feb. 18, 2014
Rasmussen, Chris • “The University of Nowhere” April 20, 2015
Rees, Jonathan • “A Screen-Only School in San Francisco” Aug. 27, 2014
Rees, David • “A Very Rubio Ending” March 16, 2016 • “This Trumpzilla Cartoon Won’t Fix a Thing” March 2, 2016 • “Scalia at the Pearly Gates” Feb. 17, 2016 • “The Iowa Caucus: A Creative Visualization” Feb. 3, 2016
Rensin, Emmett • “Blaming Parents, and Other Neoliberal Pastimes” Dec. 29, 2014 • “Cigarettes and Climate Change” July 2, 2014
Resnikoff, Ned • “Food is the First Thing: Hunger in America” Aug. 26, 2014 • “Redlining and Reckoning in Ferguson” Aug. 19, 2014 • “What’s the Matter with New Atheism?” Aug. 14, 2014 • “Paul Ryan’s Magical Thinking” Aug. 7, 2014 • “Books Are Alive” July 14, 2014 • “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of “Next Generation” Neoliberals” July 7, 2014 • “Hillary Clinton 2016 and the Folly of the Left-Flank Push” June 23, 2014 • “Domestic Workers, Domestic Cargo” June 17, 2014 • “Benghazi Fever and the Battle of the Branches” June 10, 2014 • “Glassholes at Work” May 14, 2014 • “Pushing Down the Top” May 6, 2014
Rosenberg, Emma • “Staying Sane with Rocks In My Pockets” Oct. 30, 2014
Rothfeld, Becca • “The Fratty Wolf in Your Leftist Grandmother’s Clothing” Oct. 14, 2014
Sadowski, Jathan • “The “Digital Native,” a Profitable Myth” July 9, 2014 • “Insurance Vultures and the Internet of Things” June 11, 2014
Sasseen, Rhian • “Chasing the Dream of the Having-It-All Girl Supermodel Athlete” Feb. 13, 2014 • “When Separating Art from the Artist Doesn’t Work” Feb. 6, 2014 • “Another Volley in the Culture Wars, Courtesy of a Series of Men” Jan. 27, 2014 • “We’ll Always Have The Hills” Oct. 25, 2013 • “Occupy Realism: Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens” Sept. 17, 2013 • “The Intern Ceiling” Aug. 16, 2013
Schiller, Amy • “Philanthro-Capitalists Can’t Buy a Clue” May 28, 2014
Schwartz, Ben • “Shutting Up” June 9, 2015
Scialabba, George • “The Assassin’s Fate: Paul Berman Shoots and Misses (Again)” Aug. 8, 2014 • “Ask Uncle Ralph” May 20, 2014 • “The Real and the Ideal: Reflections on Partisan Review” April 24, 2014 • “Disappearing Acts” April 7, 2014 • “Mindlessly We Roll Along” April 1, 2014 • “Now What, Left Wing?” Feb. 21, 2014
Semnani, Neda • “Q & A with Neda Semnani” Jan. 11, 2016 • “Does D.C. Repeat Itself? Very Well Then, It Repeats Itself” Oct. 16, 2013 • “A Modest Proposal for the Twenty-First Century” Oct. 2, 2013 • “TV Noir: The Saddest Cliche in the World” Sept. 20, 2013 • “George Packer’s Abstract Period” Sept. 12, 2013
Shaban, Hamza • “Nightcrawler: Flourishing in the Dark” Nov. 13, 2014 • “The Lives of Ours: Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour” Oct. 14, 2014
Shade, Colette • “Time Is Money Is Work Is Virtue” March 25, 2015
Shor, David • “Blaming Parents, and Other Neoliberal Pastimes” Dec. 29, 2014
Silverman, Jacob • “The Novel in Analog: Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers” July 22, 2015 • “Metrics All the Way Down” July 8, 2015 • “The Permanent War on Terror: Only As Old As It Feels” July 1, 2015 • “Not the People’s Uber” June 24, 2015 • “Made to Measure” June 17, 2015 • “Watching the Watchers” June 10, 2015 • “The Internet Doesn’t Exist” June 3, 2015 • “For the Love of Bug Bounty” May 27, 2015 • “Tweet If You Love the Sweet Sound of Advertising” May 13, 2015 • “Facebook’s Web of Tiers” May 6, 2015 • “Free Speech Culture Warriors of the World, Unite” April 29, 2015 • “Surge Pricing for Your Entire Life” April 22, 2015 • “BuzzFeed Among the Brands” April 15, 2015 • “Why Is Twitter Aiding Turkish Censorship?” April 8, 2015 • “More Bodies for “Never Forget”” April 1, 2015 • “Google: Too Big to Derail” March 25, 2015 • “Stingrays, ShotSpotters, and Our New Relentless Surveillance” March 18, 2015 • “Watching the #Watch Watch” March 11, 2015 • “After Net Neutrality” March 4, 2015 • “Hacks, Backdoors, and Cyberwars” Feb. 25, 2015 • “Blaspheming BuzzFeed” Feb. 18, 2015 • “Your Snitching Gadgets” Feb. 11, 2015 • “Breaking: Moguls Fear AI Apocalypse” Feb. 4, 2015 • “Paying Tribute to Yet Another Petro-Tyrant” Jan. 28, 2015 • “Where Are Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Whistleblowers?” Jan. 22, 2015 • “What To Do About Uber?” Nov. 19, 2014 • “Knocking Off YouTube’s Populist Halo” June 18, 2014 • “Citizen Koch and the Oligarchic Slide” June 2, 2014
Sindzinski, Abigail • “The “Status Bag” Bubble Won’t Pop” Oct. 28, 2014
Slobodian, Quinn • “Friedrich Hayek and the Void-oids” June 23, 2015 • “After the Wall” Nov. 20, 2014
Spaet, Patrick • ““So, What Do You Do?”” Sept. 19, 2014
Sparrow, Jeff • “American Sniper and the Trope of the Sheepdog” Jan. 26, 2015 • “The Redrow Man and Dystopia’s Dark Appeal” Jan. 8, 2015 • “Agreeing to Disagree on Torture” Dec. 16, 2014 • “U2, Apple, and the Strip-Mining of Punk Rebellion” Sept. 18, 2014
Staff • “The Baffler Joins the MIT Press” Oct. 26, 2011
Stallman, Richard • “Richard Stallman Responds to Morozov’s “Meme Hustler”” April 22, 2013
Stephen, Bijan • “Geoff Dyer’s Idle Days at Sea” July 23, 2014
Strauss, Mariya • “Weighing the Price of Safety in OSHA’s New Video Game” July 22, 2014
Summers, John • “Q & A with Evgeny Morozov and Dan Davies” Dec. 7, 2015 • “Out of the Blue” March 30, 2015 • “The Cult of the Boss: Why Do Americans Admire Businessmen?” April 17, 2014 • “Aaron Swartz, 1986–2013” Jan. 12, 2013
Tabor, Nick • “The True Cost of “Hollywood South”” Feb. 13, 2015
Thompson, Andrew • “Runaway Pharma Marketing Gets “Normalized”” Oct. 15, 2014 • “Silicon Valley’s Futuristic Mega-Zen Brain Machine” Oct. 6, 2014
Thompson, Ethan • “Slackersomething: “Portlandia” as Generational Therapy” May 1, 2014
Tkacik, Maureen • “Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic” April 4, 2012
Todd, Joseph • “Smile Like You Mean It” June 16, 2015 • “London’s Poor Fetish” Jan. 13, 2015
Tumber, Catherine • “Bulldozing the Humanities” Aug. 1, 2014 • “Dispatch from the Narcissism Wars” May 14, 2014
Vaidhyanathan, Siva • “Starbucks’s Race to the Center of Civic Life” March 18, 2015 • “Eric Schmidt in the Davosphere” Sept. 16, 2013
Vargas-Cooper, Natasha • “Fear and Insanity in Michigan” March 22, 2016 • “Really, Really Bad: Michael Jackson’s Bibliophilia” March 1, 2016 • “This Is Not a Simulation” Feb. 16, 2016 • “Twilight of the Superpredators” Feb. 2, 2016 • “Texas Foster Care Is an Unconstitutional Snake Pit” Jan. 19, 2016 • “Waiving the Age of Reason” Jan. 5, 2016
Vest, Jason • “On Clinton’s Emails and Kissinger’s Vault” March 10, 2015
Vest, Jason • “Sliced, Diced, and Crusading: The State of Indiana” April 27, 2015
Von Bretzel • “Bitcoin for Undergrads, Wall Street’s Next Pump-and-Dump” May 5, 2014
Wade, Francesca • “Take Your Idealism Out of the Freezer” Sept. 15, 2015
Weidenfeld, Lisa • “Your Soda Now Includes a Stance on International Affairs” Feb. 4, 2014 • “Battle of the Book Readers, Round ∞” Jan. 30, 2014 • “Stuck in Detention with a Handful of Nukes” Jan. 23, 2014 • “A Place to Say “I Don’t”” Jan. 6, 2014 • “A&E Shocked, Absolutely Shocked, to Learn Some Born-Again Christians Don’t Like Gay People” Dec. 19, 2013
Whatley, Stuart • “Dangerous Designs on (AP) American History” Feb. 26, 2015 • “The Nuances of Nonbelief” Feb. 13, 2015
Wilkinson, Abi • “The White Knight Delusion” Feb. 23, 2016
Williamson, Eugenia • “Ira Glass’s Fact Problem” April 12, 2013
Winterhalter, Benjamin • “Why the SAT Can’t “Democratize” Harvard” Nov. 18, 2014
Wolven, Nick • “Feeding the Social Media Slot Machine” March 20, 2015
Xianlin, Ji • “The Law of Maximum Torment” Jan. 26, 2016
Yu, Elaine • “Battered Women Behind Bars: True Stories on Stage” Aug. 21, 2014
Zaretsky, Robert • “Commodify the Classics!” April 30, 2014

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