In spite of all the money and political capital pouring into the ed-tech sector, there’s precious little evidence suggesting that it has improved teaching and learning.| The Baffler
The Western media remains largely oblivious to the bureaucratic coup redrawing the map of the West Bank. Annexation, for all intents and purposes, is complete.| The Baffler
Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating…| The Baffler
A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…| The Baffler
The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art. We publish five print issues annually, as well as online content every day of the cursed workweek.| The Baffler
Despite—or because of—his immense power, Bill Gates’s philanthropic crusades often hurt the very people he purports to help.| The Baffler
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book on “surveillance capitalism” emphasizes the former at the expense of the latter.| The Baffler
Every brand and company and product is, of course, an instrument of capitalism. It isn’t sharp or perceptive to point this out; it’s stating the obvious.| The Baffler
A new book by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sheds light on one of America’s most talent-obsessed, highly punitive, conformist companies.| The Baffler
What does it feel like to stand at the edge of annihilation?| The Baffler
Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” may be set in midcentury, but it asks an eternal question: What is the American Jew?| The Baffler
Meet the neo-reactionaries who influenced the rightward drift of Silicon Valley.| The Baffler
As “money,” Bitcoin fulfills essentially none of money’s functions; as “currency,” its massive volatility has made it all but unusable.| The Baffler
A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.| The Baffler
Just as the threat of The Entertainment looms, the idea of an aesthetic spectrum, with Art on one end and Entertainment on the other, is defunct.| The Baffler
My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible…| The Baffler
