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.
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Gaga for Google
The Internship: a study in the psychology of mass digital conformity.
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Culture
In Defense of Dessert: The Case Against Austerity
Why cutting down doesn't pay off.
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Morning Jo(k)e
Joe Scarborough and the Beltway austerians think Nobelist Paul Krugman is a nut. Really, Joe?
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Viewpoint
No Sanctuary in the Ivory Tower
Why didn't MIT defend Aaron Swartz?
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Viewpoint
Year of the White-Guy Meltdown
Boehner's f-bomb, LaPierre’s rant ... have the white men in power simply lost it?
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Blinded by Thrift Store Irony
It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.
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Viewpoint
Weak Teavangelicals
Despite great efforts, Billy Graham and his flock failed to pull out a Romney win. Is the 'values voter' era over?
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Viewpoint
Rich Deserts
Our new cult of money ensures that breeding shall evermore speak to breeding.
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Viewpoint
Ryan Shrugged
Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan can't shake his Randian roots.
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Viewpoint
GOP Time Travelers and Other Hucksters
The misguided semantics paving the way to November's election
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Culture
The Class That Dare Not Speak its Name
The talk deemed too "political" for TED.
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Culture
HBO’s Female Regression Analysis: Girls and Veep
American pop culture teems with characters afraid of adult responsibilities.
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Rubes’ Gold in Sacks
The very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs executive exposes what most already knew: The firm is morally bankrupt.
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Culture
No Bark, Less Bite—That Dog Don’t Hunt
Are America's long-running culture wars drawing to a close?
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Culture
A Hipstamatic Moment
Kodak is bankrupt. But we still crave the instant nostalgia that was once the company's hallmark.
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Culture
Christopher Hitchens: A D.C. Requiem
The fawning homages triggered by the prolific polemicist's death missed the true tragedy of his later career.
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Culture
Hollywood’s Fraud-Free Fantasies
On the big and small screens, the entertainment industry fails to explain why the U.S. economy collapsed.
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Culture
Au Revoir, Noblesse Oblige
The sense of duty America's ruling class once felt to support the greater good is gone.
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Culture
Tea Party Death Trip
Why are some Americans so comfortable letting fellow citizens die?
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Culture
When a Paradigm Falls and Nobody Hears It
The neoliberal status quo is indefensible—yet the public silently accepts its supposed legitimacy.
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Culture
Murdoch’s Minor Setback
Don’t believe the humility: The mogul’s empire is not crumbling.
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Culture
Let Them Eat Megabytes
Our media and pop culture offers virtually no indictment of the signal malady of our age: rampant inequality.
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Culture
Oprah’s Celebrity Pyramid Scheme
The daytime talk goddess' therapeutic theology ultimately leads into a blind alley.
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Culture
Scofflaws, Elected or Otherwise
America has entered a surreal post-accountability age.
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Culture
Twilight of the Social Critics
David Brooks' latest book, The Social Animal, does not bode well for post-crisis America.
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Culture
The Babbitt of the Bobos
Is David Brooks America's most misguided pundit?
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Feature
Freedom of the Press Moguls
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No Sweated Sectarian Madness Here
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