No. 21 Your Money and Your Life
In the third and last issue of our revival year, Thomas Frank tells you how theory met practice in Occupy Wall Street (and drove it out of its mind), Rick Perlstein explains how Mitt Romney lies to be loved, and David Graeber asks whether it’s possible to think that you believe something when, in fact, you don’t, or to think that you don’t believe something when, in fact, you do? (Answer: yes and yes).
The issue delivers original writing on politics, culture, and media by Will Boisvert, Ana Marie Cox, Barbara Ehrenreich, Belén Fernández, Chris Lehmann, Jason Linkins, Josh MacPhee, Jim Newell, Alex Pareene, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Eugenia Williamson—plus stories, poems, and graphic art by some of the best writers, poets, and illustrators around. And finally, we bring you a previously unpublished waking dream by C. Wright Mills, “If I Were President.” Well, what would you do if you were president?
Table of Contents
Tower of Baffler
Only a Dream
John Summers
Salvos
To the Precinct Station: How theory met practice... and drove it absolutely crazy
Thomas Frank
The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism
Rick Perlstein
Can't Stop Believing: Magic and Politics
David Graeber
Come On, Feel the Buzz
Alex Pareene
High Church Hustle: CNBC's televangelists
Jason Linkins
The Dollar Debauch
Oh, the Irony!
Chris Lehmann
Into the Infinite
The Missionary Position
Barbara Ehrenreich
Other People's Problems
The Code
Dubravka Ugrešić
Cities of the Night
Belén Fernández
Anything for the Libor Boys
Christian Lorentzen
Call of the Wild: Detroit on Screen
Will Boisvert
The Rod of Correction
Who's the Shop Steward on Your Kickstarter?
Josh MacPhee
Notes & Quotes
The Lying Game
Jim Newell
Face Value
Ana Marie Cox
Three Odd Words
Manohar Shetty
Stories
Invasion of Grenada
George Singleton
Poems
Or Why the Assembly Disbanded as Before
Roberto Tejada
from California Tanka Diary
Harryette Mullen
Summit Meeting
Tony Hoagland
Equations
Kwame Dawes
Song of Whiteout and Blackache
Ailish Hopper
Jeweler
Dante Micheaux
The Free World
Camille Rankine
Luke Cool Hand I'm Your Father
Fady Joudah
Trifling Bureaucracies
Credit
Carmen Giménez Smith
Obituary
The Alternative Press in Retrospect
Eugenia Williamson
Ancestors
If I Were President
C. Wright Mills
Graphic Artists
Front cover art is by Stephen Kroninger.
Back cover art is by Sam Lubicz.
Joseph Blough, Steve Brodner, Philip Burke, Mark Dancey, Henrik Drescher, Michael Duffy, Randall Enos, Mark S. Fisher, Stuart Goldenberg, Tony Hardmon, Brad Holland, Victor Kerlow, J.D. King, Lewis Koch, Su-Kyung Lee, David McLimans, P.S. Mueller, Alain Pilon, Ralph Steadman, Spencer Walts,
Patrick JB Flynn
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