No. 14 ~ The God That SuckedBUY ISSUE
An issue about that ungracious deity, the Market, which starts off by wondering why Americans continue to love their shabby god when it sure doesn’t love them back. Mike Newirth narrates the awful story of the gun culture. Josh Glenn blames youth quiescence on the brainwashing power of OK Soda. Clive Thompson describes Conrad Black’s effort to bring an American-style backlash to Canada. Earl Shorris recalls his personal fight with the neocons. Chris Lehmann traces the long history of the liberal-media myth. Harper’s magazine publisher John R. MacArthur remembers the backlash election of 1972 and the sparsely populated political group Republicans for McGovern. Martha Bridegam ponders the beginnings of the real estate bubble in booming San Francisco. With fiction from Christopher Sorrentino and Leon Forrest, plus a legendary illuminated cover by Mark Dancey. A classic issue—at the printer when fire destroyed the Baffler office in Chicago. Spring 2001.
Table of Contents
Salvos
- I’d Like to Force the World to Sing Joshua Glenn
- The Toys Are Us Matt Roth
- The Mirror Myth Jonathan Rosenbaum
- The Poetry of Commerce Minou Roufail
- Invisible Hand Job Sandy Zipp
- Fear and Lofting in a Silicon Boomtown Martha Bridgegam
- The Banality of Leisure Karen Olsson
- Chicago ’72 John R. Macarthur
- Generation Backlash Kevin Mattson
- The Eyes of Spiro are Upon You Chris Lehmann
- An Old Testament Earl Shorris
- The Rod of Correction: Cold Warrior in a Cold Country Clive Thompson
- Death Travels West, Watch Him Go Mike Newirth
- The God That Sucked Thomas Frank
Poems
- Instantaneous David Hess
- Ballad of Susan Smith Lee Ann Brown
- Mount Capon Comes to Bozo Michael Gizzi
- Autographeme Elizabeth Willis
- Some Days in the City Mark Mcmorris