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

Age of Onset

Bedtime for Boomers • Hating on the young is bipartisan

Memento Mori • Making kin with AI at the end of the world

YAK

Sex and Drugs • Medicare shames sexual seniors

The Total Package • The quest for the perfect silicone penis

The Red and the Black • What the forgotten story of Angelo Herndon tells us about Cop City

moths

It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop • The many educations of rap

Not Even a Nina Simone Hymn Can Perform Magic Tricks

Niagara Falls 2024 A.D. Chris Maggio

Palace-Fortress • I had done all that history demanded

Good Job! • Prepping the workers of tomorrow for the daily grind

Steroid to Heaven • The wide world of anabolics

Partially Scripted Nuclear Script

Care, Out of the Closet • LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes

My Mother Meets My Father in an Alternate Koru

Among the Thugs • How the far-right beat went from backwater to basic

Stand Up and Spout • Can the Hortonizer revive a long-departed poet?

Bafflomathy (No. 72)