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Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.

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    The Baffler no. 53 is now available online and in print. Come along as we journey into the Consensusphere.

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  2. 21 minutes ago

    Random firings? Oaths of fealty? “Flexible” policies only a mindreader can successfully navigate? Netflix’s corporate culture has it all!

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  3. 1 hour ago

    “The last best hope of mankind—to head off environmental catastrophe—is to get the Senate out of the way.”

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  4. 2 hours ago

    The “neutral” layoffs ravaging publishing are anything but: women and people of color are cut loose at a disproportionately high rate.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Senators from states representing just 16% of the population can enact a bill. And through the filibuster, 40 senators from states representing 9% of the population can block one.

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    10 hours ago

    Some say Netflix is an innovative, awe-inspiring workplace. I disagree. Read my essay now:

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  7. 5 hours ago

    “The only set of explicit, rigid rules Netflix seems to have tossed out are the ones which came about primarily after World War II to accommodate demands by workers for better working conditions and compensation, including vacation time.”

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  8. 5 hours ago

    “With their penchant for broad strokes of child scrawl, members of the Consensusphere prefer to crowd out historical nuance or committed research.”

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    Sep 7

    I wrote about watching music journalism crumble from front-row seats throughout the pandemic for

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  10. 6 hours ago

    By overrepresenting our nation’s most underpopulated states, the Senate undermines democracy. This structure, built into the Constitution, is a form of voter suppression.

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    8 hours ago

    i've gotten a good handful of new followers lately so here is a short story i wrote that was published last month over at .

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  12. 7 hours ago

    Looks like Disney has a new imperial master!

    This is truly outrageous: The new live-action Mulan THANKS the Turpan Public Security Bureau (in southern Xinjiang) in the credits. That specific public security bureau has been deeply involved in the Xinjiang concentration camps. h/t
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  13. 8 hours ago

    For music magazines, a summer without festivals or live shows meant a summer largely without advertisers. Many of them may never recover.

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    8 hours ago

    In our friend Tom Geoghegan with a ‘Modest Proposal’-type essay (“Abolish the Senate”) that turns into a list of practical steps. What Mitch “Merrick Garland” McConnell has done is a symptom; TomG argues about the deeper disease.

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    8 hours ago

    Hey! So I've got two new poems up today from what will (*eventually*) be my new poetry project. The first, believe it or not, was written way before the pandemic but is EERILY prescient:

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  16. 9 hours ago

    “If we want another New Deal of any kind, Green or not, the young in this country will have to begin by insisting on a true republic, based on one person, one vote. That means, above all, scrapping the United States Senate.”

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  17. 10 hours ago

    Despite the claims of a hefty new management tome, there’s nothing novel about the “meritocratic” nightmare of Netflix’s corporate culture.

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  18. 11 hours ago

    The United States Senate is an unrepresentative institution. Thomas Geoghegan argues we should scrap it.

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  19. 21 hours ago

    In the wake of the pandemic, many music magazines have slashed their budgets, furloughing staff and nixxing print production. Others have simply folded. Things won’t be getting better any time soon.

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  20. Sep 7

    “We have no list of the conditions that will be a part of the new normal in our post-pandemic state.”

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