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in this essay: the ideology of amateurism and the contradictory development of modern organized sports; the history of PED use and their regulation; transhumanism and Silicon Valley's obsession with death; athletic labor and the body thebaffler.com/after-the-fact…

If you’re looking for a crash course on how Israel quietly annexed the West Bank over the past 2.5 years, I broke it all down today with Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland on Majority Report, based on my piece for The Baffler.

And here’s the original piece thebaffler.com/latest/the-ann…

"FORECLOSURE GOTHIC understands the real horror is within the grind to nowhere" —Carina Imbornone on Harris Lahti's debut for The Baffler thebaffler.com/latest/fast-co…

Honored by this recommendation from Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha to read and share my piece in The Baffler, ‘The Annexation of the West Bank is Complete.’ thebaffler.com/latest/the-ann…

This piece punctures Prince’s self-important hype, showing that he is just a rich nepobaby coasting on the history of his war crimes which make him loved in all the really shittty political spaces, even as he fails at every project he sets his eyes on: thebaffler.com/latest/the-pri…

really great piece, especially in highlighting how all "it's the economy, stupid" mumbling doesn't really amount to an agenda or a narrative that protects americans thebaffler.com/latest/come-on…

Poetry from Baffler no. 79: “In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered” by Adedayo Agarau thebaffler.com/poems/in-which…

“Erik Prince became synonymous with the greed and plunder of American conquest during the post-9/11 imperialist project. Now, in the second Trump administration, he is once again in the news, pitching fresh schemes from Africa to Latin America.” thebaffler.com/latest/the-pri…

“Fans, coaches, and athletes should care about the threats to higher education. And academics like me should care about not only about the well-being of student-athletes, but the future of college athletics.” thebaffler.com/salvos/a-new-g…

“Privatization was one of the ways the right hoped to weaken organized labor—striking as often as possible at public employee unions by transferring their jobs to lower-paid, non-unionized workers.” thebaffler.com/salvos/everyth…

Poetry from Baffler no. 79: “Take a Picture It’ll Last Longer” by Natalie Shapero thebaffler.com/poems/take-a-p…

Last weekend, President Trump (79) threw a big birthday party for himself—oh yeah, and the U.S. Army (250). Jasper Craven took notes; Brian Karlsson took photos. thebaffler.com/latest/happy-b…

We sent alex bronzini-vender to WelcomeFest, where everyone from “abundance” advocates to David Shor to Senator Elissa Slotkin have fresh ideas about how to save the Democratic Party, like “appeal to the centrist soccer mom” and “take your base for granted.” thebaffler.com/latest/come-on…

In this week’s Top 5: Documenting Israel (New York Magazine) Detective Google (WIRED) Parade pondering (The New York Review of Books) Thoughtful foraging (Orion Magazine) Bowling forward (The Baffler) longreads.com/2025/06/20/the…

Carina Imbornone reviews a new novel that stretches the contemporary gothic as far as it can go without verging into pure pulp—quite a feat, in this anxious age of information and disbelief. thebaffler.com/latest/fast-co…

Poetry from Baffler no. 79: “Loose Exegesis” by Alina Stefanescu thebaffler.com/poems/loose-ex…

Erik Prince has pitched himself as a kind of third way for American imperialism, trying to appease the Trump camp’s isolationists and interventionists alike. Ben Makuch describes his new plan for the second administration. thebaffler.com/latest/the-pri…

The genocide in Gaza and new war with Iran have drawn attention away from settler violence in the West Bank. But Israel’s campaign of violence and mass dispossession is accelerating, thanks to a bureaucratic coup by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. thebaffler.com/latest/the-ann…

“Inside the perimeter was a festival featuring tents and booths run by Army units and weapons contractors. They had a captive audience to shill lethality and, hopefully, find new recruits.” thebaffler.com/latest/happy-b…