The Baffler Vol 2, No 1

Our newest issue, "Margin Call," features essays by Michael Lind on the emerging American oligarchy; Yves Smith on the mountainous self-regard of the American finance industry; Chris Lehmann on libertarianism's willful failure to understand the economic crisis; Naomi Klein's reflections on "branding" in American politics 10 years after her magnum opus, No Logo; Matt Taibbi on the howler of a memoir just published by a certain doltish Midwestern governor; plus ruminations on the ruination of Detroit, a very funny fantasy about rumbling with the personnages of the Western literary canon, and a clever story by Paul Maliszewski.

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• Journals of the Crisis Year

  by Moe Tkacik

• A Cottage for Sale

  by A. S. Hamrah

• Let Them Eat Dogma

  by Chris Lehmann

• Blood Drive

  by Matt Taibbi

• Serfing the Net

  by Astra Taylor

• The Un-usable Past

  by Walter Benn Michaels

• Poetry Slam

  by Dan Kelly

• What Does the Internet Look Like?

  by Christine Smallwood

• No Logo Update

  by Naomi Klein

• Jimmy Carter’s Rabbit

  by Lydia Millet