The sport’s appeal to a largely white, conservative, working-class fan base is deeply rooted in these formative ideals—individualism, independence and a suspicion of authority.

Writer Hannah Gais (@hannahgais) joins us to talk about her article in The Baffler about what the late Soviet Union's obsession with conspiracy theories can tell us about our current political and cul

Failing upward with other people’s money

American millennials occupy a historical position strikingly analogous to the Russian generation Dostoevsky intended The Adolescent to reach.

The success of “Hillbilly Elegy” shows there’s still a “Deliverance effect” promoting stereotypes and scapegoats in American popular culture.

Capitalism, like all abusive relationships, creates a sense of learned helplessness in its victims. We are complicit in what it makes of us.

On the state level, legislative power brokers are often at war against the plainly expressed will of the voters themselves.

Only in the U.S.A. are people suckers for the idea that the jig is up as soon as you’re old enough to vote.

The efficiency with which the faux-empowerment, build-your-brand-by-being-you ethic has targeted teen girls is dispiriting.

Twenty-five years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die. Reckoning with its legacy may help redirect the conversation in urgently needed ways.

Life Is Like A Box Of Curated VHS Tapes, You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get

The extraordinary story of Gesine and Marie—intense, tragic, playful, painful, healing—is one of three full-blown narratives.

People are just as allowed to dislike things as they are permitted to enjoy them—you can’t trick them into changing their minds with your authoritarian meme posting.

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Just as the threat of The Entertainment looms, the idea of an aesthetic spectrum, with Art on one end and Entertainment on the other, is defunct.

Make no mistake: Christsploitation is exploitation cinema. Nowhere is there the faintest whiff of sincerity.

In Baffler no. 45, our stalwart contributors puzzled over the state of American adolescence and our collective fascination with coming-of-age tales. In an eclectic set of nostalgia trips, fact…

Today’s mistreatment of Puerto Rico fits into a long history of American colonialism, unseen and unacknowledged by most citizens on the mainland.

My So-Called Life pictured a slice of middle-class, Clinton-era America. Was it indeed a simpler time?

Middle schoolers don’t develop political identities in a vacuum. They are reflections of their parents, peers, society, and professional video game streamers.

Music event in Brooklyn, New York by The Baffler Magazine on Wednesday, May 29 2019

To declare that America is “not a democracy” is as useful as pointing out that it is not a monarchy, or that the Pope wears a funny hat.