Salvos

22 Blame the Computer

The fake science that keeps threatening to kill us Corey Pein

50 The Narco Saint

How a Mexican folk idol got conscripted into the drug wars Ann Neumann

92 The Streaming Void

Has the era of the cult f lm come to an end? Judy Berman

102 Zealots of the Blockchain

The true believers of the Bitcoin cult David Golumbia

112 Right Into the Abyss

Confessions of a political apostate Bruce Bartlett

Into the Muck

60 The Artif cial Intelligentsia

My life and times as an acolyte in the mystical cult of predictive data Aaron Timms

B A F F L E R

Outbursts

6 Body Work

The curiously self-punishing rites of fitness culture Barbara Ehrenreich

12 Mourning Joe

Stalin gets an image makeover in his former home country Jessica Loudis

40 The World is a Business

The mad alchemy that transformed the market into a god Eugene McCarraher

82 The Do-Nothing Discipline

How political science fell into the thrall of fundamentalist forecasting Jef Hauser