as Jess McAllen demonstrates in her study of celebrity endometriosis surgeons
Jake Bittle takes stock of the federal buyouts of property flooded by Hurricane Harvey
And Dan Raeburn recalls when the beloved comic strip Li’l Abner took its sharp turn to the right
Adele Stan gives us a glimpse of the Sinclair Group’s monopolistic bid to strip mine the local TV news ecosystem and carpet-bomb it with advertorial content in the MAGA vein
Published: May 2021
No. 46 Format:eBook (EPUB) as Jess McAllen demonstrates inOver the last several decades, the American capitalist consensus, a joint project of neoliberalism and neoconservatism, has realized its dream of a racist, entrenched, and bureaucratic police state. Baffler no. 46, Down by Law, takes aim at this ever more carceral reality and ultimately sets its sights on the punished and excluded. To that end, Marie Gottschalk shines a light on the abysmal prison conditions in Texas, a state that today incarcerates