The Baffler

The Baffler, est. 1988, is a magazine of art, criticism, and political analysis, publishing bimonthly print issues as well as daily online dispatches.

The Baffler

Own Goals

Humping Iron • The secret network of sleaze underwriting female bodybuilding

Take a Picture It’ll Last Longer

Cow Tools • The state of professional bull riding

HELIUM QUALITY TARGETS

BadRx • Are medicine’s middlemen pharmacy parasites?

Brawl for All • How clout chasers ruined boxing

Cake • I can hardly remember that other self

In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered

Enter the Tristan deBrauwere Wagon

Changing Lanes • America’s most popular declining sport

Heavy Betting • Las Vegas gambles on the big leagues

Loose Exegesis

Going Critical • The quest for copper in Arizona

The Fame Game • Picking players for posterity

Dolphins

A New GameDay Dawns • Were college athletics ever for amateurs?

Bafflomathy (No. 79)