{"product_id":"0842614103919","title":"Gentleman of Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere's never been a better time to be outside the consensus — and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, the magazine that's been blunting the cutting edge of American culture and politics for a quarter of a century. Here's Thomas Frank on the upward-falling cult of expertise in Washington, D.C., where belonging means getting the major events of our era wrong. Here's Rick Perlstein on direct mail scams,multilevel marketing, and the roots of right-wing lying. Here's John Summers on the illiberal uses of innovation in liberal Cambridge, Massachusetts. And here's David Graeber sensing our disappointment in new technology. (We expected teleportation pods, antigravity sleds, and immortality drugs. We got LinkedIn, which, as Ann Friedman writes here, is an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePacked with hilarious, scabrous, up to-the-minute criticism of the American comedy, \u003ci\u003eNo Future for You\u003c\/i\u003e debunks \"positive thinking\" bromides and business idols. Susan Faludi debunks Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg's phony feminist handbook, Lean In. Evgeny Morozov wrestles \"open source\" and \"Web 2.0\" and other pseudorevolutionary meme-making down to the ground. Chris Lehmann writes the obituary of the Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich goes searching for the ungood God in Ridley Scott's film \u003ci\u003ePrometheus\u003c\/i\u003e, Heather Havrilesky reads \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jim Newell investigates the strange and typical case of Adam Wheeler, the student fraud who fooled Harvard and, unlike the real culprits, went to jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Future for You\u003c\/i\u003e offers the counternarrative you've been missing, proof that dissent is alive and well in America. Please be warned, however. The writing that follows is polemical in nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It may seek to persuade you of something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopublished with \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003eChris Bray, Mark Dancey,Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi, Thomas Frank, Ann Friedman, James Griffioen, David Graeber, A. S. Hamrah, Heather Havrilesky, Chris Lehmann, Rhonda Lieberman, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Evgeny Morozov, Jim Newell, Rick Perlstein, John Summers, Maureen Tkacik\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TRADITIONS ALIVE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094499410160,"sku":"0842614103919","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0842614103919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}