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

Just Say Yes

Sinopharmacology • Psychonauts with Chinese characteristics

What’s in a Pill? • An inside look at the shifting risks to safe abortion providers

Jim Carroll’s Ass

Permanent Crisis • Myopic responses perpetuate the “opioid epidemic”

The Karen Horney Progressions

Tunnel Visions • Notes on the underground, from Sinaloa to Gaza

Annette Peacock

High Expectations • Budding labor tensions in the cannabis industry

I Wanna Be Your Dog • A cultural history of McGruff the Crime Dog

Civil Animals • Are you going to eat your baby?

K-Pop • Our forefathers did dissociatives

The Insulin Empire • How profiteers pushed a lifesaving drug out of reach

Ordering a Casket from Amazon Prime

A Drug Against War • The militarization of Ecstasy

Pain and Suffering • Demonizing opioids has unintended consequences

Miss Direction • George Santos and the end-times

American Rehab • Oregon’s fleeting experiment with humane drug laws

Sea Urchin

Bafflomathy (No. 74)