Chris Lehmann - In These Times

Chris Lehmann, is editor-in-chief at The Baffler and a former managing editor of In These Times. He is the author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream (Melville House, 2016).

A former managing editor of In These Times, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post and Slate, among other publications.

Gaga for Google

The Internship: a study in the psychology of mass digital conformity.

In Defense of Dessert: The Case Against Austerity

Why cutting down doesn't pay off.

Joe Scarborough and the Beltway austerians think Nobelist Paul Krugman is a nut. Really, Joe?

No Sanctuary in the Ivory Tower

Why didn't MIT defend Aaron Swartz?

Year of the White-Guy Meltdown

Boehner's f-bomb, LaPierre’s rant ... have the white men in power simply lost it?

Blinded by Thrift Store Irony

It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.

Weak Teavangelicals

Despite great efforts, Billy Graham and his flock failed to pull out a Romney win. Is the 'values voter' era over?

Our new cult of money ensures that breeding shall evermore speak to breeding.

Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan can't shake his Randian roots.

GOP Time Travelers and Other Hucksters

The misguided semantics paving the way to November's election

The Class That Dare Not Speak its Name

The talk deemed too "political" for TED.

HBO’s Female Regression Analysis: Girls and Veep

American pop culture teems with characters afraid of adult responsibilities.

Rubes’ Gold in Sacks

The very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs executive exposes what most already knew: The firm is morally bankrupt.

No Bark, Less Bite—That Dog Don’t Hunt

Are America's long-running culture wars drawing to a close?

A Hipstamatic Moment

Kodak is bankrupt. But we still crave the instant nostalgia that was once the company's hallmark.

Christopher Hitchens: A D.C. Requiem

The fawning homages triggered by the prolific polemicist's death missed the true tragedy of his later career.

Hollywood’s Fraud-Free Fantasies

On the big and small screens, the entertainment industry fails to explain why the U.S. economy collapsed.

Au Revoir, Noblesse Oblige

The sense of duty America's ruling class once felt to support the greater good is gone.

Tea Party Death Trip

Why are some Americans so comfortable letting fellow citizens die?

When a Paradigm Falls and Nobody Hears It

The neoliberal status quo is indefensible—yet the public silently accepts its supposed legitimacy.

Murdoch’s Minor Setback

Don’t believe the humility: The mogul’s empire is not crumbling.

Let Them Eat Megabytes

Our media and pop culture offers virtually no indictment of the signal malady of our age: rampant inequality.

Oprah’s Celebrity Pyramid Scheme

The daytime talk goddess' therapeutic theology ultimately leads into a blind alley.

Scofflaws, Elected or Otherwise

America has entered a surreal post-accountability age.

Twilight of the Social Critics

David Brooks' latest book, The Social Animal, does not bode well for post-crisis America.

The Babbitt of the Bobos

Is David Brooks America's most misguided pundit?

Freedom of the Press Moguls

No Sweated Sectarian Madness Here

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