Contents : The Baffler, no. 27

The High Hat

To the Ninety-Nines

John Summers Splurge and Purge

Christina Moon Keeping Up with the Babadooks

Elizabeth Bruenig Science of Clothes

Thomas Carlyle Consolidated Deviance Inc.

From the archive Bubble Butts

Jessica Loudis Venus in Furs

The Revolution Will Probably Wear Mom Jeans 22

Eugenia Williamson Dickheads

The paradox of the necktie resolved

David Graeber Idle Threads

The sartorial unconscious

Ann Friedman Three Strikes!

Thoughts after reading Three Guineas

Lucy Ellmann Kiss the Boot

VCs Take the Media

Jacob Silverman The Taming of Tech Criticism

Evgeny Morozov People Who Influence Influential People Are the Most Influential People

George Scialabba All Hail the Grumbler!

Abiding Karl Kraus

Russell Jacoby Models

Satirized for Your Consumption

Ben Schwartz Toxically Pure

Joe Bageant drops out

John Lingan Transcendental Rites

Edward Mendelson, with John Summers The Monk Retires

Letting go of Philip Roth

J. C. Hallman

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