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

Crapshoots

Paid Phones • Owing the payday loan apps

I Might Need Security • From gambling to insurance and back again

“Ideally, with an honest face

The Reluctant Migrant • Shot by the Border Patrol, one woman pursues justice

My Mother’s Mother’s Death • Nothing lay beyond that day’s horizon

First it goes undetected then it is planted in air

Pure Life Kurt Woerpel

The Battle Hymn of the Republic • Her truth is marching on

Infinite Hedge • The Polymarketification of American life

Living Water • The humpback chub decides the Colorado River

Psalm 35 (“Scams fly in”)

It’s a Boy’s Boy’s Boy’s World • Leslie Fiedler and the American refusal to grow up

No, But • What was improv?

Intrusive Sonnet

Bafflomathy (No. 85)