Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic

by Maureen Tkacik
“The more omniscient types are the ones more naturally inclined to keep up the Thought Leader lists, and assign themselves a place at the top of them.”

I Was a Teenage Gramlich

This week, The Boston Phoenix published an edited version of Jim Newell’s essay from our current issue, “I Was a Teenage Gramlich.” You can read the story here.

Table of Contents

Hot off the presses, check out the Baffler 19 Table of Contents and read previews from the issue.

Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly

by Thomas Frank
“A résumé filled with grievous errors in the period 1996–2006 is not only a non-problem for further advances in the world of consensus; it is something of a prerequisite. Our intellectual powers that be not only forgive the mistakes; they require them.”

A Cottage for Sale: The High Price of Sentimentality

by A.S. Hamrah

Blood Drive

by Matt Taibbi

No Logo at 10

by Naomi Klein

The Gilded Mean

by Thomas Frank

Shrill and Shriller

by Thomas Frank