Very very very good story at last issue of @thedriftmag.com by @nickforetek

Legitimately great poem in @thedriftmag.com Hadn't read Lynn before and now searching up many, many more poems www.thedriftmag.com/an-apology/

The narrator of Hannah Kingsley-Ma’s Issue Seventeen story “Independent Living” takes a final trip to the retirement home where his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend’s grandmother lives. www.thedriftmag.com/independent-...

Our Issue 17 launch party is next week! Featuring readings from Emma Adler, Lily Gabaree, Ismail Ibrahim, Adam Judah Krasnoff, @meganmarz.bsky.social, Gracie Newman, Caroline Porter, Maia Silber, Kion You, and Ege Yumuşak. Join us at NeueHouse on May 14 at 7 p.m.

Chomsky’s relationship with Epstein exposes a contradiction at the heart of his work: Chomsky often shows open disdain for the masses. This piece contends that this elitist pessimism undercuts his commitment to collective struggle. By @erikmbaker.bsky.social in @thedriftmag.com

New installment of Sophie Haigney's advice column on when wandering attention is actually a problem (perhaps less often than you think) newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-do-i-s...

“Attention paid to the past, to dreams, to the strange things that pop into your head while you’re doing nothing — that’s the stuff of life!” Sophie Haigney’s April advice column considers the blurry line between attention and distraction. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-do-i-s...

really digging this piece on the conundrum of historical revisions onstage, from Emma Adler @thedriftmag.com

“It’s the same people, the same thumbs on the same phone, doing all those things.” Read our roundtable discussion on Jeffrey Epstein and our predatory elite with Brace Belden, @drboguslaw.bsky.social, @azbrodsky.bsky.social, and Anand Giridharadas www.thedriftmag.com/the-ultimate...

This is fascinating on the dream logics, the figure of the wounded child, and the pulsation of the unconscious through the image worlds of Trump 2.0

Caught up with Yoni Gelernter's essay on the logic of Zionism in @thedriftmag.com

“I don’t want to be a fraud. I don’t want to die. Those shouldn’t be the only two options” — a food service worker on the cruelty of means testing, from Maia Silber, @thedriftmag.com

“Is it cucked and soy to point out that Greenland and Antarctica are on opposite sides of the globe?” Mitch Therieau asks in an essay on the Trump team’s visual production. @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

In the latest edition of our Top 5: —Death traps (@thebeliever.net ) —Derring-do detectives (@nybooks.com) —Drivel inspection (@thedriftmag.com) —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (@inthesetimes.com) —Dissonance appreciation (@newyorker.com ) longreads.com/2026/04/24/t...

"Dream logic: at the crossroads between mythic fascist notions of collective will and dully literal American individualism, today’s right-wing imagination chooses both" www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig... via @thedriftmag.com

Employee stock ownership plans sound great; in practice, they often foist assets of dubious future value on workers in exchange for immediate concessions on wages and conditions. Great piece from Francis Northwood in @thedriftmag.com

Join us on May 14 for our Issue Seventeen launch party!

Read Issue Seventeen Mentions from @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @arh12.bsky.social, @elvia-wilk.bsky.social, @emotrophywife.bsky.social and more. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

“Neanderthals tumors you and me and nuclear bombs” —Abou Farman. Read all the poetry in Issue Seventeen.🧵 www.thedriftmag.com/nuclear-magn...

“‘It’s just like normal porn,’ he said, ‘except you’re the guy getting his dick sucked.” —Caroline Porter Read all the fiction in Issue Seventeen🧵 www.thedriftmag.com/devochka/

My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.

For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...

Issue Seventeen of @thedriftmag.com is now out in full online. Read our editor's note, an apologia for paranoia, here www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note...

In our essays section, Max Norman assesses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s swerve from realism in his new series. www.thedriftmag.com/roman-flood/

Issue Seventeen is here! 🧵

For our new issue, I wrote about Chomsky's friendship with Epstein and the political risks of his thinking on propaganda www.thedriftmag.com/the-judgment...

In Issue 17’s Dispatches section, @tarpley.bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social examine the public sphere. www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...

Max Norman’s Issue Seventeen essay examines Karl Ove Knausgaard’s evolution from autofictional hyperrealism to the philosophical semi-fantasy of the Morning Star novels. Read the essay online today. www.thedriftmag.com/roman-flood/

I'm in the new @thedriftmag.com with a bit on the @versobooks.bsky.social edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's A Seventh Man

Issue Seventeen's Mentions are out today! Read to discover the identity of "the world’s least charismatic carnival barker" www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

Scintillating new story out today about everyone's favorite subjects: VR porn and Siberia www.thedriftmag.com/devochka/

DJ Alan Cumming, jai alai on Instagram, and a new coterie of oafs and cretins: read Issue Seventeen’s Mentions, by @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @andrewrihn.bsky.social, @elvia-wilk.bsky.social, and more www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

In “Devochka,” Caroline Porter’s Issue Seventeen short story, a young woman’s V.R. porn binge leads her to revisit memories of studying abroad in Siberia. Read online now, and be sure to subscribe by the end of the day to receive a copy of the full issue. www.thedriftmag.com/devochka/

Terrific commentary on the dreams of the young Right.

In the Trumpian dreamworld, @mitchtherieau.bsky.social writes in a new Issue Seventeen preview, “opposites converge: insanity and reason, self-actualization and self-annihilation, Jedi and Stormtrooper, bootstraps and jackboots, North Pole and South.” www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

In Julia Kornberg’s “The Blonde,” our first fiction preview from Issue Seventeen, a pair of internet friends meet up in real life, with unanticipated results. Read online today. www.thedriftmag.com/the-blonde/

“From its earliest days,” Maia Silber writes in our first Issue Seventeen preview piece, “America’s welfare system has forced its beneficiaries to lie not only for their survival, but also for its own survival.” www.thedriftmag.com/fraud-with-b...

In the March installment of our advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a questioner’s “desire for an artistic and intellectual life that transcends the cold machinery of money.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-i-make...

Congratulations to The Drift’s Senior Editor @erikmbaker.bsky.social! His book, “Make Your Own Job,” just won the 2026 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

In 2024, @laurenleblanc.bsky.social wrote a Mention for The Drift on Nancy Lemann’s long-out-of-print book “The Ritz of the Bayou,” which helped lead to its republication on April 7. She spoke with Lemann for our newsletter today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-spark-so...

Today in the newsletter, associate editor Max Norman revisits David Schurman Wallace’s examination of the afterlives of John Ashbery and the role of social media in shaping encounters with poetry today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-anxiet...

Can always count on @seamus-malekafzali.com to say what needs to be said newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...

“The precedent that Obama’s militarism solidified has only become more and more malignant as Trump has moved through his presidency,” writes @seamus-malekafzali.com in a new piece on the aerial forever wars. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...

An overly cheery exclamation point, a million-dollar wine cellar, winning the war with yourself, and more – read Mentions from Ben Gottlieb, @amkdurie.bsky.social, Will Dukes, Sam Ross, Olivia Noble, Jake Indursky, and Charlie Cockburn www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/

Today in the newsletter, a sharp dispatch from across the pond by Oliver Eagleton on the prospects of the electoral left in the UK newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-gr...

“There is a sense that the spirit of resistance which defeated the establishment in Greater Manchester might soon spread across the country.” Today in our newsletter, Oliver Eagleton reports on the surprising rise of the Green Party in the UK. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-gr...

Thank you to all who joined us last night for a discussion about Epstein, to our panelists (@drboguslaw.bsky.social, Brace Belden, @azbrodsky.bsky.social, @anandwrites.bsky.social), and to The Bell House for hosting us!

“I feel excited about the possibilities presented by the feeling that there isn’t much left to lose,” says “Down Time” author Andrew Martin in conversation with Drift co-editor Rebecca Panovka. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/bad-for-pe...

We are launching our first-ever internship program this summer! Visit our website for more details. Applications are due by April 10. bit.ly/4aXdZQw

Soooooo proud of this recognition - what amazing company. I'm so happy that this will draw attention to these amazing stories!