The Baffler, est. 1988, is a magazine of art, criticism, and political analysis, publishing bimonthly print issues as well as daily online dispatches.
The Baffler
Age of Onset
Bedtime for Boomers • Hating on the young is bipartisan
Memento Mori • Making kin with AI at the end of the world
YAK
Sex and Drugs • Medicare shames sexual seniors
The Total Package • The quest for the perfect silicone penis
The Red and the Black • What the forgotten story of Angelo Herndon tells us about Cop City
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It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop • The many educations of rap
Not Even a Nina Simone Hymn Can Perform Magic Tricks
Niagara Falls 2024 A.D. Chris Maggio
Palace-Fortress • I had done all that history demanded
Good Job! • Prepping the workers of tomorrow for the daily grind
Steroid to Heaven • The wide world of anabolics
Partially Scripted Nuclear Script
Care, Out of the Closet • LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes
My Mother Meets My Father in an Alternate Koru
Among the Thugs • How the far-right beat went from backwater to basic
Stand Up and Spout • Can the Hortonizer revive a long-departed poet?
Bafflomathy (No. 72)