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
On the Clock
The Cloud of Unknowing • How will the nuclear age end?
Bunker Down • Notes from the Cold War underground
Nuclear War
Worlds on a Wire • Virtual reality still searches for a purpose
Poem Inspired by Everything
The Unwinding • What happens when you lose your Medicaid coverage?
Waiting at Anchor • On seafarer abandonment
Clytemnestra
What the Water Gave Me Justin Guthrie
The Kwak Race • Remembering doesn’t interest me
Irish Unification, 2024 • Searching for the best of all possible Irelands
Signed Away • Against the commodification of deaf communication
The Therapist in the Machine • Chatbots take on the talking cure
Park of Prospects • Cruising as living art
Beautiful Plan of Your Future • Putting the past into present tense
All morning, tax evasion
Bafflomathy (No. 76)