The Baffler, est. 1988, is a magazine of art, criticism, and political analysis, publishing bimonthly print issues as well as daily online dispatches.
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Beyond Left Melancholy • Understanding the psychological toll of political defeat
Gender Fear • Toward a passionate pro-trans politics
Head of the Family
You Might Also Be Interested • Streaming killed the video star
Dance Dance Revolution? • Shilling utopia at the rave
Endo Days • Are celebrity surgeons boosting awareness or their own brand?
IT’S NOT WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS RIGHT NOW
Machine City • The artist makes love to the robot
How to Read Wars • Darken your speech
Fit to Print
Full Metal Sponcon • The former SEAL building a business out of backlash
Naught for Teacher • How Democrats abet the right’s war on public education
You Choose the World: A Poetics
Good Enough • Psychoanalysis learns to love letting go
The Wimple Life • American nuns approach the abyss
Bafflomathy (No. 73)