Back in the '90s, Thomas Frank's The Baffler magazine was a cleansing hatebath lampooning both capitalist doublespeak and squishy liberalism, the rare publication to be both smart and funny amid a lot of humorless political bluster. When the publication burned down—literally, in a fire—in 2001, right after Bush II was inaugurated, it seemed almost symbolic. After sitting out the Bush years, The Baffler was revived in 2009 under a new editor, John Summers. Baffler editors Summers and Frank, joined by contributor Rick Perlstein, will be in town to talk about their new book, No Future for You (MIT Press, 392 pages, $27.95), collecting essays from the past five years about the 1 percent, Harvard hucksterism and the tragic hounding of the late Baffler contributor Aaron Swartz, to whom the book is dedicated.