“You can just not do things,” Sophie Haigney tells a reader who agonizes about the ethics of delivery apps in the June installment of her advice column. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/do-i-need-...

Counterfeit poems, a neighborhood drunk, buxom desert strippers, toxic dust, and everyone’s favorite Sauron-inspired surveillance-tech giant — new Mentions by @izzyampil.bsky.social, Ariel Courage, Sascha Cohen, Ben Gambuzza, and @madeleineebaker.bsky.social. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/summ...

“All this blood sport, all these pyrotechnics, and the only thing that can get them off, apparently, is making up a guy and imagining him getting really mad at them.” Read @mitchtherieau.bsky.social’s report on the UFC Freedom 250 spectacle. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/history-is...

Color version of “History Has Its Eyes On You” for @thedriftmag.com!

It's a good time to be a small point guard, or a small magazine. Our limited edition Championship Cap is available now. shop.thedriftmag.com/product/cham...

In “Tooth Skin,” Gracie Newman’s Issue Seventeen short story, a graduate student writing a dissertation on dentistry in American literature takes a job at a dentist’s office to make ends meet. Sink your teeth in today. www.thedriftmag.com/tooth-skin/

So happy with how this piece I made for @thedriftmag.com turned out! You can see it in the wild here or all the versions on my site: scott-howard.com/History-Has-...

Since the heyday of Hamilton, Emma Adler writes in her Issue Seventeen essay on Broadway’s renditions of history, “progressive retelling has gone down a forking path, leaving us with a choice between didacticism and ideological toothlessness.” www.thedriftmag.com/history-has-...

It's a good time to be a small point guard, or a small magazine. Our limited edition Championship Cap is available now. shop.thedriftmag.com/product/cham...

"We might crave extreme solutions, but [...] this is a case where repeated small steps are better and sometimes harder." This program of "attentional reset" featured in @thedriftmag.com is worth a try. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Today we’re sharing two poems from Issue Seventeen that reflect on all that seeing can do to us, and all that it can’t do for us.

Early June is the perfect time to read Kion You’s Issue Seventeen Story “My Graduation,” about a complicated family reunion at a commencement in Texas. www.thedriftmag.com/my-graduation/

To celebrate the publication of her new book “Femmephilia,” Drift contributor @reproutopia.bsky.social spoke with Essays Editor Lyra Walsh Fuchs about mothering against motherhood, antifemininity feminism, and lysergic acid diethylamide. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/disliking-...

“Going green has become business as usual,” Stephen Milder writes in his Issue Seventeen essay on Germany’s unmet environmental promises. But “green technologies and carbon-intensive industries can easily live side by side.” www.thedriftmag.com/the-myth-of-...

“The tools we have for changing people’s minds are very limited,” Sophie Haigney tells a reader worried about a loved one going down a cult-y rabbit hole in the May installment of her advice column. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-do-i-b...

Today we’re sharing three animalistic Issue Seventeen poems, which stage encounters with beings of bone, fur, and whatever jellyfish are made of. 🧵

“The American pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale is an opportunity missed and a responsibility shirked,” Max Norman writes in the first installment of a new column on contemporary art. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/not-so-muc...

So happy to see this piece I was asked to create about the collision of history & musical theater for @thedriftmag.com on the printed page! An honor to work alongside such brilliant writers & artists. Pick it up at shop.thedriftmag.com. I made a bunch of versions of this I’ll share in the coming wks

This Memorial Day, commemorate The Drift: from now until the end of next week, all our back issues are on sale for just $5 plus shipping! shop.thedriftmag.com

Private equity firms increasingly say they want to help workers own the means of production. If it sounds too good to be true, Francis Northwood writes in Issue Seventeen, that’s because it is. www.thedriftmag.com/esop-fables/

“It feels pretty safe to say that, when it comes to their specific dynamic, Tisch is running the show,” @k80way.bsky.social tells Lyra Walsh Fuchs in a new Q&A on Zohran Mamdani’s policing policy. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-kind-of-...

Come celebrate Issue Seventeen with us tomorrow at 7 p.m.!

“I don’t — I can’t stress this enough — care what the Western reader thinks of Pakistan,” Drift contributor Dur e Aziz Amna says in a Q&A with Associate Editor Zain Khalid about her new novel, “A Splintering.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/money-is-c...

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...