Baffling the consensus since 1988, this journal seeks to debunk the ideology of the free market and to drive public discourse in literate and humane directions. Issues contain thundering anti-business salvos from the sharpest minds, as well as poetry, literature, and satirical art.Contributions for The Baffler No. 19 include Thomas Frank on the age folly, Barbara Ehrenreich on our relationship to big animals, David Graeber on how technology has failed us, Chris Lehmann on the proletarian novelist Ernest Poole, and Rick Perlstein on Ronald Reagan’s path to the presidency.Contents:Philosophical Intelligence Office DecrescendoJohn SummersSalvos Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an age of follyThomas Frank I Was a Teenage GramlichJim Newell Ronald Reagan's Imaginary BridgesRick Perlstein Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of ProfitDavid Graeber Future Schlock: Creating the crap of tomorrow at the MIT Media LabWill Boisvert Revolt of the GadgetsRobert S. EshelmanThe Dollar Debauch Water WorldChris LehmannInto the Infinite The Animal CureBarbara EhrenreichNotes & Quotes Smells like …Eugenia Williamson My Own Little MissionDubravka Ugrešić Disposable HipG. BeatoStories Give Her to MeLudmilla Petrushevskaya 2312Kim Stanley Robinson Edge LandsChris N. BrownLives of the Pundits Omniscient Gentlemen of The AtlanticMaureen TkacikPoems Experts are PuzzledLaura Riding from Odi BarbareGeoffrey Hill Strike!Charles Bernstein Syria RengaMarilyn Hacker Snow GlobePeter Gizzi Breaking StonesNirala Little Princess, or The One-Eyed GirlNiralaDocumentia We Told You So: An advance memorandum on the jittersJames K. GalbraithAncestors Cotton Tenants: Three familiesJames Agee