This month Sophie Haigney's column gives some virtue-ethics advice about food delivery newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/do-i-need-...

“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-...

Increasingly predictable pattern that transphobia just rots the brain into being a social reactionary in just about every sphere: Bindel now pushing classic "gay men are all pedophiles" homophobia.

For a long time, the New York Democratic machine was corrupt, sclerotic, hostile to progress, and completely implacable. That started to change when 13 women came forward, at great personal cost, about the sexual harassment they experienced from Andrew Cuomo.

On Palantir’s foray into fashion, by @madeleineebaker.bsky.social

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...

I have a new Mention in our first batch of the summer newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/mentioned-...

You can now preorder the paperback of Make Your Own Job, with this gorgeous new cover!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Face-meltingly great report on the White House's UFC Freedom 250 spectacle by @mitchtherieau.bsky.social newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/history-is...

It's kind of incredible how baseball players are vocally Hitlerian in basically direct proportion to how bad they are

For @thenation.com I wrote about Magnifica humanitas and why it's about the Catholic Church itself, not just AI www.thenation.com/article/soci...

For @thenation.com I wrote about Magnifica humanitas and why it's about the Catholic Church itself, not just AI www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It's been about a year since we published this piece by Jamie Hood last year and every word of it still rings painfully true www.thedriftmag.com/anti-anti-ra...

“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-...

Sophie’s advice column this month is on a subject of perennial interest: what should I do when someone starts believing crazy things they read on the internet? newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-do-i-b...

Excellent and scathing piece by Max Norman in the newsletter on the American pavilion at the Venice Biennale – the first installment of what is sure to be a can’t-miss new art column newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/not-so-muc...

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/

Today in the newsletter: a Q&A with Katie Way on Mamdani’s mounting failures with respect to the NYPD newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-kind-of-...

Solidarity with workers at the University of Chicago Press, who have formed the first union at one of the oldest and most distinguished academic publishers in the U.S.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Guy

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

Israel just abducted activists, journalists & humanitarians from the Global Sumud Flotilla — including our contributor Alex Colston. Zeteo demands that Israel immediately release those kidnapped & calls on the UN, the US & governments across Europe to take urgent action & hold Israel accountable.

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...

I tried to shed a historical perspective on competing management styles on this ep of No Such Thing www.nosuchthing.show/p/does-micro...

Reminding myself that getting mad about the disrespect of punk rock by the New York Times would not be very punk rock

Of course the collapse of brow categories into hopeless confusion should be expected in a society where the Bordieuian account of cultural capital no longer has the same purchase on the reproduction of social hierarchy harpers.org/archive/2024...

Learning from this post and responses that the register connoted by "middlebrow" has significantly lowered

@mitchtherieau.bsky.social on MAGA slop is a top 5 Longread of the week! longreads.com/2026/04/24/t...

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

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

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...

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

Read Dispatches on the public sphere from @tarpley.bsky.social bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social , and @samadlerbell.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...

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...

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...

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...

OAH-goers: I am giving a paper on "radical self-reliance" tomorrow morning and then chairing what will be a great panel on finance culture. Hope to see you there!

New piece today: an extremely thoughtful dissection of Knausgaard's new series by Max Norman www.thedriftmag.com/roman-flood/

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/

You don't hear as much about the Department of Government Efficiency as you used to

The Drift's senior slop correspondent @mitchtherieau.bsky.social wrote a piece for our new issue on the phantasmic visual output of the Trump administration. In honor of AI-Jesusgate, we're sharing it with you today. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

Cowboy hats and penguin poop: Trump’s meme agitprop www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

If you haven't yet, drop everything you're doing and read @mitchtherieau.bsky.social's instant classic on the "dream logic" of the right wing aesthetic imaginary www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

The Drift's senior slop correspondent @mitchtherieau.bsky.social wrote a piece for our new issue on the phantasmic visual output of the Trump administration. In honor of AI-Jesusgate, we're sharing it with you today. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...