The Baffler: Classic or Dud?

I'm selling off a complete run of #5 through #15 if anyone is interested in buying: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260961889322&ss

http://www.thebaffler.com/articles/alternative-to-what

just reread this. how depressing. by which i mean, it is a great article, but no matter how cynical it felt at the time, it feels naive now, in that it held out some sort of place of cultural resistance at all.

i think i must have pretty much abandoned this standpoint around the time of FT first kicking off anyway. by then it was already clear that sentiment like "rock and roll is the health of the state" was a cruel joke.

been pretty impressed with them over the last year. had no idea they've been going this long.

The current incarnation is very good, though I sometimes struggle to read everything, it gets pretty bleak

yeah, i can only do an article every month or so tbr

The article about water in Arizona was really good/infuriating

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dead-pools-webb

this story is a wild ride

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-reluctant-fundamentalist-tubiana

this guy is 32 years old, was in his early twenties when all this went down.

Great story. May have convinced me to renew my sub. I spent the Feb/Mar of 2000 visiting a peace corp volunteer in Cameroon about 15km from Chad border (visited two towns mentioned in article). Being around residents who were, by tradition Animists, caused me to really bum out about the competing Islam / Catholicism / Evangelical Protestant missionaries vying for converts. Life for most was on the knifes edge & that was an eye opener for me.

interesting, thanks for sharing.

i didn't quite parse what was going on at the end of the story, with the extortion from the family, etc.

i was liking the general thrust of the give-poor-people-cars article about mayo pete but i'm tired of reading about american politics assholes or american politics in general. it looks like that's a lot of the articles lately?

i wouldn't mind subscribing when i'm a little less tight.

cannes has always confused me so i liked pessimistic but clear-eyed overview of it that also serves as a rave of the kelly reichardt film

https://thebaffler.com/latest/palais-intrigue-wham

'm tired of reading about american politics assholes or american politics in general. it looks like that's a lot of the articles lately?

yeah I always like their intl articles a lot too—I haven't read the one you recommended upthread yet, though I also started & didn't finish the cars one lol