#Thebaffler

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.

Written from Badr Prison in 2023, “the thing between the wall and my body” traces the physics of incarceration.

If you can’t be beautiful, be tortured. Or better yet, be the one who does the torturing.

Quiz is many things to the disciple. It is not simply trivia. It is not simply a hobby. It verges, for the believer, on a way of life.

Images are everywhere. It takes great strength of character to believe there’s something else to see.

Harry and Bertha Holt were called by God to “save” multiracial Korean children—many of whom did not need saving.