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“The Baffler was a prophet without honor,” he went on.
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“The Baffler was a prophet without honor,” he went on.
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“The Baffler was a prophet without honor,” he went on.
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The Baffler is a Chicago journal-edited by Thomas Frank-which I suppose might be called "liberal," since in tone and target it certainly descends from the 60's (a decade of high idealism along with admittedly much foolishness, some of it dangerous), but it strikes me that this passage might just as well have appeared under the name of Allan Bloom or in The New Criterion.
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"Bafflers?" aren't we giving these critters an awful lot of credit here? and what does a "Baffler" do, anyway? i have this marvelous mental image of a riddling Sphinx perched on top of the pole.
June 18th, 2003 2003
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Back when the Baffler was running, they had an article about unpaid interns.
PR: What Not to Do: Exploiting Models » Comics Worth Reading 2010
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Hmmm. I think I've seen the dark side of this story of adventure and knowledge, ably laid out by former Goldmanite and Naked Capitalism blogger Yves Smith in the most recent edition of The Baffler (available online at Naked Capitalism):
I Don't Know About You, But Working At Goldman Sachs Sounds Like A Harrowing, Existential Ordeal 2010
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One of the more interesting pieces of American nonfiction in recent memory is a 1999 essay by Ben Metcalf, published in the Chicago-based journal the Baffler.
Untamed Mississippi John Jeremiah Sullivan 2010
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And Vanderbilt comes to it with an excellent pedigree: along with being a busy freelance writer and the author of Survival City and The Sneaker Book, he is one of the original Baffler crowd, who put out the best indie intellectual journal of the pre-McSweeney's/N+1 era, and who now appear to have taken over the world.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Hmmm. I think I've seen the dark side of this story of adventure and knowledge, ably laid out by former Goldmanite and Naked Capitalism blogger Yves Smith in the most recent edition of The Baffler (available online at Naked Capitalism):
I Don't Know About You, But Working At Goldman Sachs Sounds Like A Harrowing, Existential Ordeal 2010
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