The Baffler

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

Nohow On

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)