john summers

David Graeber: ‘There Has Been a War on the Human Imagination’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 13, 2013 American intellectuals have had plenty of cause for despair in these Roman decades of international and domestic imperialism against different ways of thought and life. At an April launch party in San Francisco for the 22nd volume of the countercultural magazine The Baffler, anthropologist and contributor David Graeber explained some of how this happened and praised a nationwide grass-roots effort to reverse the trend. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Back to Blunt the Cutting Edge

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 19, 2013 John Summers, editor-in-chief of the critical, satirical magazine The Baffler, appeared on Boston's WGBH News to introduce his journal to television audiences, saying that when people ask what the publication is about, he "remind[s] them that this sort of thing existed for a long time in the American cultural scene." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How OWS Toppled Itself

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 14, 2012 Postmodern confusion about how populist movements take hold and flourish caused Occupy Wall Street to “deconstruct” itself in a frenzied obsession with nonhierarchical structures, a disdain for demands, and other trappings of “lazy, reflexive libertarianism,” author and columnist Thomas Frank writes in The Baffler. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

We Told You So

By James K. Galbraith, The Baffler May 19, 2012 Two months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, a group of experts and I warned the Obama campaign about the likelihood of a global economic crisis. Not the slightest word came back. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Baffler Is Back

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2011 Dissident lefties, rejoice! After a long hiatus resulting from an office fire and a host of other problems, Thomas Frank's fearless cultural journal, The Baffler, is due to return this summer online and in print in all of its caustic, critical glory. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )