The Baffler: No. 19

Baffling the consensus since 1988, this journal seeks to debunk the ideology of the free market and to drive public discourse in literate and humane directions. Issues contain thundering anti-business salvos from the sharpest minds, as well as poetry, literature, and satirical art.

Contributions for The Baffler No. 19 include Thomas Frank on the age folly, Barbara Ehrenreich on our relationship to big animals, David Graeber on how technology has failed us, Chris Lehmann on the proletarian novelist Ernest Poole, and Rick Perlstein on Ronald Reagan’s path to the presidency.

Philosophical Intelligence Office

Decrescendo
John Summers

Salvos

Too Smart to Notes on an age of folly
Thomas Frank

I Was a Teenage Gramlich
Jim Newell

Ronald Reagan's Imaginary Bridges
Rick Perlstein

Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
David Graeber

Future Creating the crap of tomorrow at the MIT Media Lab
Will Boisvert

Revolt of the Gadgets
Robert S. Eshelman

The Dollar Debauch

Water World
Chris Lehmann

Into the Infinite

The Animal Cure
Barbara Ehrenreich

Notes & Quotes

Smells like …
Eugenia Williamson

My Own Little Mission
Dubravka Ugrešić

Disposable Hip
G. Beato

Stories

Give Her to Me
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

2312
Kim Stanley Robinson

Edge Lands
Chris N. Brown

Lives of the Pundits

Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic
Maureen Tkacik

Poems

Experts are Puzzled
Laura Riding

from Odi Barbare
Geoffrey Hill

Strike!
Charles Bernstein

Syria Renga
Marilyn Hacker

Snow Globe
Peter Gizzi

Breaking Stones
Nirala

Little Princess, or The One-Eyed Girl
Nirala

Documentia

We Told You An advance memorandum on the jitters
James K. Galbraith

Ancestors

Cotton Three families
James Agee