After a year-long absence caused by a fire that wiped out their office, The Baffler is back, now fully redesigned, featuring a larger cut size and a better, cleaner inside design. This issue takes on a nervous America in the aftermath of 9/11, with essays on the ugly lessons taught by America's greatest sporting event, how rock became reactionary, the military-industrial complex on a bender, the secret connections between American Girl dolls and sperm merchandisers, libertarians in love, dining and weather, plus fiction from Mahmoud Darwish and Eileen Myles, and more.