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 Decrescendo John Summers Salvos Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an age of folly Thomas Frank I Was a Teenage Gramlich Jim Newell Ronald Reagan's Imaginary Bridges Rick Perlstein Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit David Graeber Future Schlock: Creating the crap of tomorrow at the MIT Media Lab Will Boisvert Revolt of the Gadgets Robert S. Eshelman The Dollar Debauch Water World Chris Lehmann Into the Infinite The Animal Cure Barbara Ehrenreich Notes & Quotes Smells like … Eugenia Williamson My Own Little Mission Dubravka Ugrešić Disposable Hip G. Beato Stories Give Her to Me Ludmilla Petrushevskaya 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson Edge Lands Chris N. Brown Lives of the Pundits Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic Maureen Tkacik Poems Experts are Puzzled Laura Riding from Odi Barbare Geoffrey Hill Strike! Charles Bernstein Syria Renga Marilyn Hacker Snow Globe Peter Gizzi Breaking Stones Nirala Little Princess, or The One-Eyed Girl Nirala Documentia We Told You So: An advance memorandum on the jitters James K. Galbraith Ancestors Cotton Tenants: Three families James Agee