CoNTENTS (TH E B AFFLE R , No. z3)

SPENCER WALTS

r!Jtl' agical Thinking Once Upon a Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I

THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS

Magic Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

]01-IN S u MMERS

Buncombe .. .... . . .................................. · · 7

DAVID GRAEBER

Daniel's Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

DANIEL AARON

Landowners ......................................... IO

]AMES AGEE

Internment Camp ................................... I4

]lM FREDERICK

ELEA NOR OAVIS

MICHAEL DUFFY

MA RKS. FISHER

Photo (jraphic Safe Styles . .......... . ............................... I6 Today's looks for tomorrow's threats

PAUL SHAM BROOM

Carnival ofCJJuncombe Academy Fight Song ....................... . ..... .. .. 22

THOMAS FRANK

Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not .......... . ........ 34

SusAN FALUDI

Networking into the Abyss ........................... 52 I nside the empty bubble ofSXSW Interactive

]A COB SILV ERMAN

All Linkedin with Nowhere to Go ..................... 66

ANN FRIEDMAN

:Jfigh .(,ow Washington Street Legal ..................................... .. .. 84 The national security state comes home

CHRIS BRAY

Good Enough for Government Work .................. 94 Conservatism in the tank

]!M NEWELL

They Pretend to Think, We Pretend to Listen ......... I04 Liberalism in the tank

KEN SILVERSTEIN

Vocabulary Lessons ................ . ................ II4 Basta ya que el Yanqui mande

DANA FRANK

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