“Many have described the president’s appeal as a cult of personality,” @topefolarin.bsky.social writes, “but his supporters’ devotion is perhaps better understood as a cult of faith — a passionate belief in his ability to bend others to his will.” www.thedriftmag.com/god-like-con...

See you at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, Sept. 21! We’ll be selling discounted issues and merch, including special in-person-only items.

Congrats to Drift contributors Jordan Thomas, Natalie Shapero, and Solvej Balle on making the National Book Award longlists for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Translated Literature! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/celebratin...

A psychedelic toad, a proverbial mom, Canadian “national culture,” tulip chairs, and a sludge-like scallop dish — read five Mentions from @harmlessfires.bsky.social‬, Irene Connelly, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, Jonah Walters, and @alexpvalenti.bsky.social. www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/

“The state has become his dick.” Read our conversation with Wendy Brown about Trump’s politics of dominance and the importance of a robust feminism for the left. www.thedriftmag.com/theyre-using...

The hottest talents of the early 1990s, impotent civil servants, shameless name-dropping, HSK 4 Mandarin, and loud pagan rituals — read five Mentions from @therealbradbabs.bsky.social, Michael Kaplan, S.C. Cornell, @aprzhu.bsky.social, and John Bohn

A beautiful, insightful conversation among a few of our editors about how the experience of growing up as the child of immigrants has evolved over the 21st century – check it out! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-changing...

“The betrayal that my family felt with Obama mirrors the betrayal that so many people felt with Biden’s policy in Gaza.” Drift editors Krithika Varagur, Saliha Bayrak, and Shreya Chattopadhyay consider solidarity, state violence, and “the brown community”: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-changing...

congratulations @taylorswiftnews.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/taylor-swift/

In Matteo Ciambella’s “Fluff,” from Issue Fifteen, stories are embedded within stories; a scientist disappears in a sandstorm; sheep loom large. www.thedriftmag.com/fluff/

provocative interview w/ wendy brown @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: "Should we stop worrying so much about liberal democratic principles & processes—let go of liberal democracy the way the right did—and figure out how to seize the state to stem climate change..." www.thedriftmag.com/theyre-using...

In her Issue Fifteen Dispatch, @aywarhiannon.bsky.social explains why we need to wield the First Amendment “in service of our most powerful formation: the collective.” www.thedriftmag.com/collective-p...

“A lot of the poems start from a place of anger,” Sasha Debevec-McKenney tells Jordan Cutler-Tietjen about her new collection, “Joy Is My Middle Name.” “But then they change and get more complicated.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-poem-i...

Adam Tooze on human creativity post-AI: “everything faulty, quirky, weird, off the beaten path: that’s where humanity is going to reside.” From @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/all-sticks-n...

The fiction inbox will be closed for the month of August for a summer break! It will reopen on September 1; any stories submitted between August 1 and September 1 will not be considered.

“If anti-Semitism is the proverbial socialism of fools,” Becca Rothfeld writes in Issue Fifteen, “then rage against the twentysomething groundlings who work at an Australian skincare company is the socialism of morons.” www.thedriftmag.com/a-bureaucrat...

Here's a pretty cool look at how the designer of one small print magazine — @thedrift-mag.bsky.social — puts together its covers. I especially like the gif showing the evolution from inspiration to final design. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-making...

Ever wonder how a Drift cover comes together? Our print designer Ivy Sanders Schneider explains the process – and how she reenvisions designs from early 20th century socialist magazines for the present day. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-making...

‘The question will be: which version of a new order — or new orders, plural — will win resources and people most quickly and most effectively? And that is a question we have to answer with our organizing.’ @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social interviewed in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:

very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It

“I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about hope,” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social tells us. “Hope is great.” Read the interview from Issue Fifteen today. www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

“One of the things that originally motivated me to write Elite Capture was to try to get people to be more precise. Elite in terms of what?” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, interviewed by @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

Great interview about one of the most exciting new novels of the year!

“I think that the difference between romantic and platonic relationships is a question of intensity,” Stephanie Wambugu told associate fiction editor Livia Wood in a Q&A about her debut novel, Lonely Crowds, excerpted in Issue Fifteen. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-question...

“We’ve reached the limits of what moral outrage can do without material political power backing it up,” @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells us in a new interview from Issue Fifteen. www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

An aspiring vampire, dripping wreckage, “benign silliness,” lights fit for a starlet, and America’s Marquis de Sade –– read Issue Fifteen Mentions from Aaron Labaree, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, Mark Steinbach, Nicki Klar, and Noa Wesley. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

“I think we can move a little more slowly from a diagnosis that elite capture is at play in some political area to a decision about what we should do about it.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, interviewed by @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

Our Issue Fifteen launch party is TONIGHT! Join us for readings by @gabydvj.bsky.social, @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, Mariah Kreutter, Benjamin Krusling, Owen Park, and Stephanie Wambugu.

A cock-rock politician, anti-tech tech guys, eight women boxers, a squashed typeface, and the sounds of monastic life — read five Issue Fifteen mentions from Page Berger, @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social, Kate Petsche, Aaron Gonsher, and Chris Phillips. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

“The two kinds of people are those who have heard the news and those who haven’t,” Owen Park writes in Issue Fifteen. “One kind is not better than the other; in the end, they’re just different.” Read the full short story online now. www.thedriftmag.com/dear-lilling...

A cartoon aristocrat in a top hat, a contentious body of muddy water, constipated Nashville dumpster divers, Ai Weiwei, and Uniqlo coffee — read five mentions from @viveknd.bsky.social, Polly Adams, Tyler Thier, @erinlangner.bsky.social, and Mark Steinbach. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

When I hear Noah Feldman et al talking about how the first amendment “protects disagreeable/hateful/abhorrent speech” and *nothing else* I realize why I have headaches associated with jaw clenching and teeth gnashing Wrote about it in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/collective-p...

“From the perspective of predatory capital, certain rural and metro areas look the same: easy to exploit,” writes @nickbowlin.bsky.social in Issue Fifteen: www.thedriftmag.com/easy-to-expl...

The Issue Fifteen launch party is one week from today! Read the pieces from this special anniversary edition of The Drift, now online: www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...

Horned-up OnlyFans zombies, human and bovine athletes, Paul von Hindenburg, cow colostrum, and “severe nausea” — read five new Mentions from @devintoshea.bsky.social‬, Sydney Allen-Ash, @brynstole.bsky.social‬, Juliana Adelman, and @return2sanders.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

“We’re seeing a personalist, patrimonial form of rule in which the leader is not being checked in any discernible way,” Nikhil Pal Singh told us in an Issue Fifteen interview. www.thedriftmag.com/losing-any-c...

late to post this but i was very excited to write a lil mention in the latest issue of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social !!! www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...

Clear-eyed, strategic analysis from @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social at @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: "I’m not sure that the [pro-Palestine] movement has saved a single life, and that’s extremely sobering. It speaks to the fact that we don’t live in a democracy; + www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

“But the reality is, we’ve done the urgent, big actions for a year and a half now, and we haven’t accomplished our goals. So we can’t keep thinking that the long-term work can be put off.”

Been thinking about this piece a lot. We've entered the era of "agit-slop" propaganda. Its goal: to desensitize us to horrors. From @thedrift-mag.bsky.social.

Wrote a mini-review here of Universal Language, a good Canadian movie precisely because it's not "about Canada" but about a place that exists nowhere at all.

NEW: Trump's unshakable faith in his own abilities only highlights how little faith today's Democratic leaders show, writes IPS Exec Director @topefolarin.bsky.social in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social. "We are being led by people who fail to grasp that we are in a spiritual contest with our opponents."

Are girlbosses vilified because they are "a living avatar of liberalism’s sterility"? Incisive, delightfully-written piece on girlboss-bashing as misplaced hatred of bullshit jobs and of a hyper-commercialized culture, channeled into "women need to go back to being home-makers".

Some extremely prophetic stuff in here, check it out www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

I'm excited to share this interview I did with The Drift!

Honored to have an extremely abbreviated review of an Ai Weiwei touch station in the fantastic issue 15 of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social

I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using

new issue of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social just dropped - check out my RFT mention and this other amazing work www.thedriftmag.com/issues/