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What a difference a few years make! It wasn't so long ago that Americans thought they had learned a hard lesson about "irrational exuberance." But on the party went. Expensive military adventures abroad, a Ponzi economy at home, the largest asset bubble in human history . . . all... read more

Many commentators have remarked that the United States is a nation of rank buffoons. Few, however, have carefully measured our nation's recent and steep tumble into idiocy, much less attempted a unified theory to explain it. In its sixteenth issue, "Nascar, How Proud a Sound," The Baffler... read more

Millions Thrill as Nasdaq Charges Upward. - Editorial Pages Acclaim Market as Friend of Great and Humble Alike. - Welfare Abolished. Social Security Pooh-poohed. - Business Cycle Repealed. -Elites in Retreat, Liberals Routed. -Miraculous Election of Cretin as President. -Gala victory laps in... read more

Baffler Thirteen commemorates thirty years of the crazy politics of the backlash by examining the deep history of right-wing populism. Thomas Frank examines the early days of the American Legion, David Mulcahey reads the Reader's Digest; Dan Raeburn recalls the tormented career of Al Capp, the Li'l... read more

Baffler 12, "Then Came Nylon" -- the gloomy red issue -- dishes out punishment to today's reigning academic and literary tastemakers. Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant blast the "new global vulgate" emanating from our nation's ivy-covered precincts. Tom Frank rumbles with... read more

This fine issue casts a somber gaze at degraded life in the middle. Tom Frank unloads on the faux-populist ministrations of "public journalism." Ben Metcalf looks back in anger at his un-Sawyeresque life on the Mississippi. Kim Phillips-Fein tallies the wages of bankruptcy. Marc... read more

"The Folklore of Capitalism" sketches the botched culture of the Businenessman's Republic. Matt Roth recounts his ethnographic dabbling with the creepy Amway Corporation. Tom Frank discusses Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt as the pimply adolescence of Hip Capitalism. Also featured: Nelson Smith's... read more