The Baffler
Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.
Publisher1 story / day
As Astra Taylor’s new documentary makes clear, there is no democracy and never was. There is only struggle—here, now, always.
A new $5 billion development threatens the livelihood of one of Chicago’s most beloved independent music venues—and much more.
#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won’t until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
We are in thrall to the fetish of progress: the belief that history has a direction and a purpose, and that humankind is ascending a steady route to perfection.
In a media-saturated culture that replays images of black death on an endless and unavoidable loop, black children are plunged into a bewildering sort of mental gymnastics.