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

On the Clock

The Cloud of Unknowing • How will the nuclear age end?

Bunker Down • Notes from the Cold War underground

Nuclear War

Worlds on a Wire • Virtual reality still searches for a purpose

Poem Inspired by Everything

The Unwinding • What happens when you lose your Medicaid coverage?

Waiting at Anchor • On seafarer abandonment

Clytemnestra

What the Water Gave Me Justin Guthrie

The Kwak Race • Remembering doesn’t interest me

Irish Unification, 2024 • Searching for the best of all possible Irelands

Signed Away • Against the commodification of deaf communication

The Therapist in the Machine • Chatbots take on the talking cure

Park of Prospects • Cruising as living art

Beautiful Plan of Your Future • Putting the past into present tense

All morning, tax evasion

Bafflomathy (No. 76)