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Baffler 19, the first from new editor in chief John Summers, alights on the bloodless crossroads of technology and culture with salvos by founding editor Thomas Frank, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rick Perlstein, David Graeber (who wonders why our cars don’t fly), and Maureen Tkacik (who wonders whether The Atlantic magazine is a CIA front or only looks that way). Our senior editor, Chris Lehmann, inaugurates his new column, The Dollar Debauch, with a look at proletarian fiction of bygone days, while James Agee inaugurates our Ancestors column with an article on cotton tenants that’s published here, exclusively, for the first time in 76 years. All that, plus a dazzling array of poetry, fiction, documents, interviews, and satirical art. Click here to read the Table of Contents or Thomas Frank’s salvo.