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CO N T E NTS 1 'I'HE 'BAFFLER , 0. 28 ClJECLARATIONS In Mayhem We Trust C l-I RIS LE H MANN The Blue and the Gray Zone RICIIARD KREITNER Captive Audiences SIIAWN HAMILTO N Live Nice (or Else) LINDSEY GILBERT From the archive: Death Travels West, Watch Him Go MIKE EW I RTH The Bourne Identity A DREW J. BACEV I C II Mission Creeps MARK DANCE Y 6 8 10 12 14· 16 20 'BATTLE JfYMNS The Bully's Pulpit On the elementary structure of domination DAVID GRAEBER Cable News Charnel Mayhem as a guide for living ALEX PAREENE Have Guns, Will Liberate Inside the civic theology of arms-bearing CHASE MADAR Apocalypse Soon Y es, your gadgets are ineluctably engineering your doom H EATHER HAVRILE SKY Town Hall on Terror NOAM CHOMSKY AND KADE CROCKFORD JO 42 58 66 PHOTO(jRAPHIC To Bear Arms MARK PETERSON 'J'HE ClJOLLAR ClJEBAUCH Having Their Cake and Eating Ours Too Cl-IRI S LEHMANN 86 JECOND CITY There Goes the Neighborhood lOO The Obama library lands on Chicago RI C K P ERLSTEIN J'IFTH CoLUMN Now Streaming: The Plague Years A. S . HAMRAH Weed, Whitewashed NIELA 0RR Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia In Amsterdam with the Singularity COREY PE I N More Titillated Than Thou How the Amish conquered the evangelical romance market ANN TE MANN IIJ 122 IJO 4 ~ The B affler [no. 28]
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CJ3attle Jfymns 'POEMS It feels nice V!NOD KUMAR SHUKLA Bitter-Berry Daybreak !NGR I D j ONKER New Life ]ANA PRIKRYL School ZB!GN I EW HERBERT Why Were We So Wild about Wild flowers? MrCHAEL R uBY Aram Ilyich Khachaturian LEv OzEROv Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev LEv OzEROV Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov LEv OzEROV Implements ARVI ! D KR!SIINA MEHROTRA A Parade Tirade LAWRENCE fERLl GHETT I JrORIES From Aurora KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Side Boob and Insensibility LucY ELLMANN Life after Death TERRY BISSON Fountain MARKjACOBS 39 I29 q.6 I79 2I6 22 95 LfO I60 .(osr CAusEs Motown Shakedown OwEN DAVIS A Study in Total Depravity SIVA VA I DHYANATHAN < !ANCESTORS Reflections on Violence in the United States R I CHARD HOFSTADTER GXHIBITIONS A: BRAD HOLLAND B: CARL DuNN C: TOM ! NGERER D: ERIC HANSON CJ3AFFLOMATHY UNJ'UNNY ZOHAR LAZAR ISO 222 2I8 "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." -D. H. Lawrence STUART GOLDENBERG Tbe Bt~jfler [no. 28] ~ S

CJ3attle Jfymns

'POEMS

It feels nice

V!NOD KUMAR SHUKLA

Bitter-Berry Daybreak

!NGR I D j ONKER

New Life

]ANA PRIKRYL

School

ZB!GN I EW HERBERT

Why Were We So Wild about Wild flowers?

MrCHAEL R uBY

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian

LEv OzEROv

Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev

LEv OzEROV

Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov

LEv OzEROV

Implements

ARVI ! D KR!SIINA MEHROTRA

A Parade Tirade

LAWRENCE fERLl GHETT I

JrORIES

From Aurora

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

Side Boob and Insensibility

LucY ELLMANN

Life after Death

TERRY BISSON

Fountain

MARKjACOBS

39

I29

q.6

I79

2I6

22

95

LfO

I60

.(osr CAusEs Motown Shakedown

OwEN DAVIS

A Study in Total Depravity

SIVA VA I DHYANATHAN

< !ANCESTORS

Reflections on Violence in the United States

R I CHARD HOFSTADTER

GXHIBITIONS

A: BRAD HOLLAND

B: CARL DuNN

C: TOM ! NGERER

D: ERIC HANSON

CJ3AFFLOMATHY

UNJ'UNNY

ZOHAR LAZAR

ISO

222

2I8

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic,

and a killer."

-D. H. Lawrence

STUART GOLDENBERG

Tbe Bt~jfler [no. 28] ~ S

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