You can read an excerpt of Book III in our most recent issue. www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...

Join us, @ndbooks.bsky.social, Krithika Varagur, Zain Khalid, Sloane Crosley, and Rob Franklin, on November 18 to celebrate the publication of the newest installment of Solvej Balle’s series “On the Calculation of Volume.” www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/calcul...

Listeners of @ifbookspod.bsky.social will enjoy this essay. I haven't read many self-help books but thanks to the show I'm pretty familiar with a lot of the titles referenced.

Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them. By @erikmbaker

This is excellent. Stay for the barn burner of an ending. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

NYT couldn't find someone to defend the Gates memo who wasn't a former *Gates scholar*??

This entire essay is timely, perceptive and useful, so of course I'm sharing the one part that made me chortle

ICYMI, my latest essay in @thedriftmag.com, which also serves as a postscript of sorts to Make Your Own Job www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

thought this was an interesting read. admittedly I’m super out of the loop on self-help books but I’m not entirely surprised that stoicism has cut a swathe across the entire industry. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Trump says being anti-Trump is “PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!”

ICYMI, my latest essay in @thedriftmag.com, which also serves as a postscript of sorts to Make Your Own Job www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.

Proud of my hometown for standing up to these fascist thugs

De lo mejor que he leído en mucho tiempo: @erikmbaker.bsky.social en @thedriftmag.com sobre el giro estoico de la literatura de autoayuda. «But preemptive surrender is no sign of wisdom. Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them». www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

I have an essay on self-help, the "philosophy" industry, and human finitude in our new issue. As Dylan said of "Tangled Up In Blue," it took me ten years to live and two to write. I hope you enjoy. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

I have an essay on self-help, the "philosophy" industry, and human finitude in our new issue. As Dylan said of "Tangled Up In Blue," it took me ten years to live and two to write. I hope you enjoy. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

Terrific new short story by Nick Foretek out today. If you share it enough I'm confident we can get this to be the top result when someone searches "porn" on the internet www.thedriftmag.com/porn/

If you haven't heard this great episode of This Guy Sucked with @erikmbaker.bsky.social on Elton Mayo, go and listen to it (especially if you're in the, uh, "Fake Doctor in a Business School" demo 🙋) music.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ85...

“The squelch is a metonym for their sexual intercourse.” In Nick Foretek’s Issue Sixteen short story, a trauma surgeon attends a pornographic fiction workshop. www.thedriftmag.com/porn/

Terrific new short story by Nick Foretek out today. If you share it enough I'm confident we can get this to be the top result when someone searches "porn" on the internet www.thedriftmag.com/porn/

Classroom report: This week in a gen ed course about work, we're finishing this very good book by Erik Baker (@erikmbaker.bsky.social). It's good in the classroom, great on the history, and right on the politics. Read it, share it, teach it.

Proud to join friends, comrades, and inspirations in a boycott of the NYT Opinion section until the paper meaningfully redresses its complicity in the Gaza genocide. As a former contributor, this was not an easy choice, but I know it's the right one. www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

“If Mamdani is elected, the most reactionary voices in the department will have their knives out.” In a new preview from Issue Sixteen, @k80way.bsky.social considers Bill de Blasio’s relationship with the NYPD, and what lies ahead for Zohran Mamdani: www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...

great article from @k80way.bsky.social about de blasio's catastrophic approach to the NYPD and what mamdani will have to deal with if (when) he becomes mayor www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...

So much has already been said about how a Mayor Zohran should orient himself towards the NYPD and yet here I am in @thedriftmag.com saying more

Trying to have it both ways with the NYPD doomed de Blasio, and it would doom Zohran too. Read Katie Way's cautionary tale: www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...

Fenway Health cutting off access to medical treatment for trans youth is shameful and unnecessary. There is no need for this. Cis folks, please use these numbers below to tell Fenway and the AG what you think about abandoning trans youth.

Great piece in the newsletter today by Saliha Bayrak on Love Island hyperpolitics newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/close-read...

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

ICYMI: My latest essay in @thenation.com on the place of criticism and contestation in the history of capitalism www.thenation.com/article/cult...

ICYMI: My latest essay in @thenation.com on the place of criticism and contestation in the history of capitalism www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The first piece from our next issue is up, from a set of Dispatches on food and famine in and beyond Gaza: an extremely moving reflection from Hamada Shaqura on cooking during genocide. www.thedriftmag.com/the-silence-...

The first piece from our next issue is up, from a set of Dispatches on food and famine in and beyond Gaza: an extremely moving reflection from Hamada Shaqura on cooking during genocide. www.thedriftmag.com/the-silence-...

I'm in @thenation.com today with a piece on John Cassidy's book Capitalism and Its Critics and the place of reform in the system's metabolism www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I'm in @thenation.com today with a piece on John Cassidy's book Capitalism and Its Critics and the place of reform in the system's metabolism www.thenation.com/article/cult...

In the newsletter today: two poems by Benjamin Krusling from our latest issue newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/i-still-wa...

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