The Baffler (no. 32) Contents
The Paternal Return
Skopje, City On the Make 8
Alexander Clapp Father Worship
Hamilton’s New World scripture
15
Peter Manseau Improv-da
How Palantir has made corporate orthodoxy out of experimental theater
David V. Johnson
20
The Long Arm
Thin Blue Spin
How U.S. cops have raided social media
Aaron Miguel Cantú Time Bandits
Why our political past is rarely prologue
Rick Perlstein
26
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Muzak of the Spheres Material Issue 48
Reclaiming a living cosmos from the dead-end tradition of Western scientism
Jackson Lears Displaced Deities
A reply
Barbara Ehrenreich The Schmaltz in Our Stars 68
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Talia Lavin Village Atheists, Village Idiots 72
Sam Kriss Divine Indigestion
The endlessly fabulized American self
Jonathon Sturgeon
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