#Thebaffler

Companies like Hadrian are embracing AI-enabled automation to expedite weapons production.

In his new book, Adam Jentleson offers a blueprint for reviving the Democratic Party’s political fortunes. No one should follow it.

In “Chimes: A Monologue,” Tom Cole probes the banality and desperation of living.

Arch Connelly’s work was a flashbang: vulgar and excessive to the point of camp.

Documentarian John Wilson has made a career out of his obsession with the mundane.

This is not some “docudrama.” It’s a fugue. A fever dream. An insane, hysterical, hideous opera.

The Library of America completes John McPhee’s canonization as this country’s most important nature writer.

Meghan O’Gieblyn’s addiction memoir transcends the form—and offers a salient exploration of what varieties of care and attention we owe ourselves and others.

A new book unpacks the history of Wikipedia and the numerous crises it faces in the age of artificial intelligence.

In New York’s Hudson Valley, fight for publicly owned utility companies gets a jolt.

A new book explores a consistent, albeit under-examined, public policy failure: providing the general public with a place to do their business.

Gloria Steinem was a booster for Feminism 101. It took me thirty years of politics to understand her value.

The Eurocentric elitism of classical music offers rich terrain for the social novel.

“Crossing the Red Line” offers a vital, sobering diagnostic of how American power operates behind closed doors.

At this year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, fatalism reigned.

It is the role of the critic and the artist to go against all that is well-pedigreed, right-minded, and hopelessly inert.

The 1976 integration of women into the military service academy system landed a direct blow to the heart of America’s most elite masculine enterprise.