Peter in Print

A Dan, A Plan: Magazines!

2007: A famous New Yorker editor comes to Swarthmore + I glimpse a path forward

Sep 10 • 

Peter C. Baker

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August 2025

Jeffrey Epstein as One Neat Trick

By trying to make Epstein into "their" winning issue, Democrats and other anti-Trump groups are yet again exhibiting an approach to politics that…

Aug 6 • 

Peter C. Baker

4

July 2025

Must Repression Always Fail?

In art? In life?

Jul 16 • 

Peter C. Baker

19

3

May 2025

Novellas in your inbox; Ghibli slop in the White House; squishy stuff in my knee

Recent writing.

May 13 • 

Peter C. Baker

21

July 2024

May 2024

April 2024

Instant Coffee, Marlen Haushofer, Things of That Nature ...

Two new pieces.

Apr 8, 2024 • 

Peter C. Baker

3

March 2024

"You don't have to know anything about anything at all."

In which we cheer Dakota Johnson for trashing (or ... seeming to trash?) the movie she's supposed to be promoting.

Mar 14, 2024 • 

Peter C. Baker

1

January 2024

Palimpsest of Failure

Is The Name of My New Band

Jan 9, 2024 • 

Peter C. Baker

3

December 2023

Where Are You Going (In A Robotaxi), Where Have You Been (In A Robotaxi)?

On Joanne McNeil's "Wrong Way" (and book clubs)

Dec 13, 2023 • 

Peter C. Baker

1

November 2023

"Beatles" For Sale

🎶can't get no worse🎶

Nov 30, 2023 • 

Peter C. Baker

3

April 2023

The Future We Can't See

On "How To Blow Up A Pipeline" + Writing and Contexts

Apr 11, 2023 • 

Peter C. Baker

4