This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

'If we don't do the messaging Republicans want, Republicans will have a messaging victory'

After this week I think we can all agree that the main problem with society is that there isn't enough stuff

FYI "ran a search on" 100% means they uploaded it to ChatGPT and asked it what it meant

"We can't tell you who the shooter was but luckily we CAN confirm that you should blame trans people and the left"

Asserting as an obvious fact that "nothing happened" after Trump was shot is totally mystifying to me. He won the presidential election!

Mood rn in pfp

Lawsuit against Murdoch already having its intended effects

Yes, "Satan Is Real" by the Louvin Brothers

On the right day you can catch me insisting that Leave is the single best REM track

Really enjoyed this podcast discussion on Make Your Own Job, which tragically took place just before my back-to-school haircut www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjTf...

You could have just said Nirvana and excluded exactly the same number of perfect albums

This, from @erikmbaker.bsky.social is one of the best responses I’ve seen to the dilemma of a) the school cell phone ban is probably a good idea and/but b) its biggest cheerleader is not necessarily on your side or the side of your kids.

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...

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...

Finally finished one of my summer projects, watching the whole M:I series for the first time

I will issue Tankus bucks which will be receivable in payment for Notes on the Crises events, NOTC Manhattan office sublets, Notes on the Crises subscriptions and future NOTC merchandise if the people demand it.

The most reliable store of value is now preorders of @nathantankus.bsky.social's book

I had this thought recently and then literally laughed out loud when I remembered The Horrors. Solidarity with everyone else going through this world ambiently bummed out

Much like the Windows 95 operating system I was born thirty years ago today

Gene Kelly in "The Young Girls of Rochefort" - BOTD

Seems bad

Big Thief lyrics: Your heart is like a knish Unfurling in the vastness of the galaxy And you granted my wish Like a cosmic potato genie MJ Lenderman lyrics: I am Fat Bastard, and I am Mini-Me I'm a real disappointment, like Austin Powers 3

My whole body is sore today but I did something I've wanted to do ever since I moved to New England!

Bonus - Is Economics a Science? w/ @erikmbaker.bsky.social Danny chats with Erik Baker about his new article reviewing the “science critique of economics.” Plus, they talk a bit about the history of nuclear science. Link in the replies!

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...

Excellent (and critical) @erikmbaker.bsky.social review of two recent nuclear-focused books: "today’s atomic ambassadors seem determined to insist that whatever destructive forces their field has unleashed are ultimately someone else’s problem" www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

This piece also explains what I see as the central paradox of contemporary advocacy for nuclear energy: it's presented as a hack to solve climate change while otherwise preserving business as usual, but business as usual makes it absolutely impossible

“…there is expert consensus that atmospheric nuclear testing was responsible for, at minimum, tens of thousands of cancer cases in the US alone, since fallout did not merely settle in an innocuous even layer around the globe; it was more acutely concentrated in communities near testing sites.”

For @newstatesman.com I reviewed a pair of new books on nuclear science, both of which, in different ways, try to wash their hands of politics www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

"The Manhattan Project self-evidently played no role whatsoever in the defeat of Hitler." Inside the history of nuclear science 🖊️ Erik Baker

For @newstatesman.com I reviewed a pair of new books on nuclear science, both of which, in different ways, try to wash their hands of politics www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Terrific piece that is a perfect complement to my essay on the subject last year, highlighting a range of perversities I couldn't begin to touch on (or even anticipate...)

A fantastic essay that also links to another fantastic new-to-me essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social, that highlights New Atheism's history as an effective rebranding of the deterministic, crypto-eugeniscist defense of sociobiology/evopsych defector.com/the-ghosts-o...

I have a new paper in History of Political Economy that is now available to read for free online. It's about what we can and can't learn from studying – and criticizing – economics using the methods of the history of science. read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

Today is the 80th anniversary of one of the most momentous atrocities of modern times. Proud to lend my voice to this valuable @aljazeera.com analysis. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Exceedingly well-deserved recognition! You can check out my appearance here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Lovely Q&A in our newsletter today with Sasha Debevec-McKenney about her great new poetry collection! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-poem-i...

“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...

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...

We've got a fun piece in the newsletter today from our print designer on how we move from Masses/Liberator covers to Drift covers newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-making...

A quick podcast episode with the great @llassabe on MYOJ and the early history of graduate business education americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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

as correct as michael is here this is the inverse of how it works in the world of elite commentary, where a willingness to entertain race science somehow makes you more credible for your "heterodoxy" (see: charles murray)