Bafflercasts

Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 10: Hashtag Resistance Corey Pein talks to Michael Brooks about his Baffler piece, coauthored with David Slavick, on the failure of institutional centrism to provide adequate resistance to the far right. The article was “No Time for a Negative Peace.”  ...

Welcome to this Baffler podcast. WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, with the ocean between them. Episode 5: Startup Monarchy In our fifth episode, Amber and Sam consider whether Prince Philip is a log and the queen a robot, judge Trump’s first 100 days, and wrestle with the question: “Is Sam’s fake news...

Welcome to this Baffler podcast. WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, with the ocean between them. Episode 4: The Wave of the Future Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss set the world to rights, covering the British election that is suddenly happening, the French election that just half-happened, the strange rise of fascism...

Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here. Episode 9: Burn It Down Corey discusses David Attenborough’s Planet Earth series with Amber A’Lee Frost and Will Menaker, and talks to Adrian Bonenberger about his essay on whether the left should arm.

Welcome to this Baffler podcast. WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, with the ocean between them. Episode 3: Medusa’s Stare Amber and Sam go over Sam’s trip to Israel, discuss universal programs, and play “But Is It Art?” with British tabloid The Sun’s projection of its own commercial on the white cliffs of Dover.

Welcome to this Baffler podcast. WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, with the ocean between them. Episode 2: Syphilis, Baby Amber and Sam rehash the news at home and abroad, from the Dutch election to the all-American Fat Leonard scandal, taking in along the way the great syphilis explosion of 2014 and George Orwell’s...

Welcome to this Baffler podcast, EXPERTS BAFFLED. ​ In our first episode, Rick Perlstein talks to Baffler editor in chief Chris Lehmann about his salvo “Outsmarted” in the new issue of the magazine. They discuss the curious identity of smartness, American Psycho, the dark underbelly of meritocracy, and the long-term political origins of the “libtard” insult.

Welcome to this Baffler podcast. WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, with the ocean between them. Episode 1: They Built The Fjords Amber and Sam get the measure of the last fortnight’s most important news and rumor, covering everything from Trump’s well cooked steak with ketchup to Mark Zuckerberg’s...