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
Yee-Naw
The Texan Ideology • Silicon Valley looks for Lebensraum in the Bible Belt
Leave It to Beaver • Everything is bigger at Buc-ee’s
The Moral of the Story
Country-Fried Ulster • Northern Ireland’s love affair with the American South
The Invention of Antifa • The courts decree a new domestic terrorist
Time Lapse
Democracy Chips • Taiwan pivots to the Lone Star State
Four Mammals • They had their good days too
Olive Oil Boy
NOBODADDIES
Territorial Spirits • A professor of religious studies asks why everyone wants an exorcism
Bladed Tetris
Rocket Racket • The new South Texas hellscape
Rodeo Clowns • How cowboy culture remade Brazil
The Turn
Terminal Velocity • Battling fossil fuels in North America’s borderlands
Against Wagyu • I am American because I hate the flag and love the beef
Bafflomathy (No. 84)