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...

via @erikmbaker.bsky.social

We have some new fiction for you in these trying times - a stunning story by Julia Kornberg www.thedriftmag.com/the-blonde/

I cannot believe I am scheduled to teach Dr. Strangelove tomorrow

I think it's a mistake to say that Trump has threatened nuclear use when he did not do so explicitly. The US can easily destroy a whole country with conventional weapons and doing so should not be allowed to count as backing away from the brink.

For the local paper I penned a quick write-up of a great book by a great writer and human. www.cambridgeday.com/2026/03/31/u...

Our first preview piece from our forthcoming issue is a groundbreaking retheorization of welfare fraud by Maia Silber www.thedriftmag.com/fraud-with-b...

The two best guitar rock bands of the last 15 years were called Screaming Females and The Men... really makes you think

In the March installment of our advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a questioner’s “desire for an artistic and intellectual life that transcends the cold machinery of money.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-i-make...

March installment of Sophie’s advice column just in the nick of time! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-i-make...

There's no direct evidence for the historical existence of "Abraham Lincoln." Scholars now typically view him as a confabulation from various oral traditions about a mysterious hyper-eloquent giant

Congratulations to The Drift’s Senior Editor @erikmbaker.bsky.social! His book, “Make Your Own Job,” just won the 2026 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

In 2024, @laurenleblanc.bsky.social wrote a Mention for The Drift on Nancy Lemann’s long-out-of-print book “The Ritz of the Bayou,” which helped lead to its republication on April 7. She spoke with Lemann for our newsletter today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-spark-so...

Today in the newsletter, associate editor Max Norman revisits David Schurman Wallace’s examination of the afterlives of John Ashbery and the role of social media in shaping encounters with poetry today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-anxiet...

“The precedent that Obama’s militarism solidified has only become more and more malignant as Trump has moved through his presidency,” writes @seamus-malekafzali.com in a new piece on the aerial forever wars. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...

Can always count on @seamus-malekafzali.com to say what needs to be said newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...

I love all Mentions equally but this one touched a special nerve

An overly cheery exclamation point, a million-dollar wine cellar, winning the war with yourself, and more – read Mentions from Ben Gottlieb, @amkdurie.bsky.social, Will Dukes, Sam Ross, Olivia Noble, Jake Indursky, and Charlie Cockburn www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/

Today in the newsletter, a sharp dispatch from across the pond by Oliver Eagleton on the prospects of the electoral left in the UK newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-gr...

You can now submit questions for our new advice column anonymously through this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“I feel excited about the possibilities presented by the feeling that there isn’t much left to lose,” says “Down Time” author Andrew Martin in conversation with Drift co-editor Rebecca Panovka. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/bad-for-pe...