In Praise Of: The Baffler
I got my issue of the resurrected Baffler last night, and I’m just going to give it a very brief rave and suggest you subscribe. The current number (featuring contributions by Awl columnist Chris Lehmann and Awl pal Moe Tkacik, among many others) did something amazing: It pulled me out of my current mode of bailout fatigue and actually made me angry again. Beyond that, the writing is so good, the thoughts so well organized, that I read it all the way through in one sitting, which is no mean feat considering my attention span is so abbreviated these days that I cannot even bother to finish