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Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, author of Make Your Own Job erikmbaker.com
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Today's the day! I poured everything I've got into this book, and now, eight years after I started working on it, it is officially published! I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make this book a reality - and to all of my readers for their support.
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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.
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The anxiety of influencers
Why read John Ashbery?
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-anxiety-of-influencers
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“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.
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The legacy of Obama's drone wars
Who paved the road to Trump's war?
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy-of-obamas-drone-wars
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Can always count on
@seamus-malekafzali.com
to say what needs to be said
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The legacy of Obama's drone wars
Who paved the road to Trump's war?
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy-of-obamas-drone-wars
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I love all Mentions equally but this one touched a special nerve
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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/
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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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Today in the newsletter, a sharp dispatch from across the pond by Oliver Eagleton on the prospects of the electoral left in the UK
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Are the Greens for real?
A dispatch on UK politics by Oliver Eagleton
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-greens-for-real
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You can now submit questions for our new advice column anonymously through this form!
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Questions for The Drift Advice Columnist
Hello! I'm Sophie Haigney, and I recently started writing an advice column for The Drift. You can read my first two columns here, and here. If you want to ask a question anonymously, you can submit it...
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“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.
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Bad for people, great for fiction
A Q&A with Andrew Martin
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/bad-for-people-great-for-fiction
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huck mason
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leland palmer in the black lodge
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19 days ago
We are launching our first-ever internship program this summer! Visit our website for more details. Applications are due by April 10.
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Cecelia Cancellaro
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Thanks to
@thedriftmag.com
and
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
for spreading the word about Cold War Liberalism edited by
@mbrenes.bsky.social
and
@dbessner.bsky.social
-- a volume that is sure to provoke much discussion. Available now in paperback from
@universitypress.cambridge.org
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The February installment of Sophie Haigney’s advice column addresses the question of where to live, and why committing is easier said than done.
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Where will I be happy?
The Drift's advice column #2
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/where-will-i-be-happy
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The Drift
26 days ago
Thrilled to have these stories by
@samuelmjensen.bsky.social
, Nick Foretek, and Elisa Gonzalez recognized by the National Magazine Awards!
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Soooooo proud of this recognition - what amazing company. I'm so happy that this will draw attention to these amazing stories!
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Latest installment of Sophie’s new advice column, on moving and optionality
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Where will I be happy?
The Drift's advice column #2
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/where-will-i-be-happy
27 days ago
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I have the privilege of joining my friend Mac Loftin for this event tomorrow! If you're in the area and interested in the best theology book of the year and/or how to effectively challenge Christofascism, please join us.
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I have the privilege of joining my friend Mac Loftin for this event tomorrow! If you're in the area and interested in the best theology book of the year and/or how to effectively challenge Christofascism, please join us.
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Sydney Bauer
28 days ago
This is 400,000 internal refugees in the united states because of state level policies and there remains fear that the federal government could make it worse.
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29 days ago
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The Drift
29 days ago
“I realized that I could treat the novel as a form, like any poem,” Drift contributor Daniel Poppick says in a Q&A on his new book “The Copywriter.”
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"You might as well call yourself a warlock"
A Q&A with Daniel Poppick
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/you-might-as-well-call-yourself-a
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Christopher Deutsch
29 days ago
Hey,
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
, your turn's tonight!
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michael röbbins
about 1 month ago
I like sports headlines that could also be summaries of medieval chivalric romance
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The Drift
about 1 month ago
Today in the newsletter, Drift senior editor
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
and contributor Daniel Bessner talk about a new book on Cold War liberalism to which they both contributed.
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The founding ideology of American empire
Daniel Bessner and Erik Baker on Cold War liberalism and its afterlives
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-founding-ideology-of-american
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Today in the newsletter:
@dbessner.bsky.social
and I chat about the book on Cold War liberalism that he co-edited with
@mbrenes.bsky.social
and to which I contributed, which is out in paperback today
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The founding ideology of American empire
Daniel Bessner and Erik Baker on Cold War liberalism and its afterlives
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-founding-ideology-of-american
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The Drift
about 1 month ago
On 3/10 at 7:30 at The Bell House, our Editors Kiara Barrow and Rebecca Panovka will moderate a conversation with Brace Belden (of TrueAnon),
@drboguslaw.bsky.social
,
@azbrodsky.bsky.social
, and
@anandwrites.bsky.social
on the Epstein files. Get tickets today:
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Mac Forehand, with a name like that you really should be playing baseball
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Christopher Deutsch
about 1 month ago
My graduate readings this semester, minus Brownell's 24/7 Politics (Princeton has a silly desk copy system that I had a tough time navigating but enroute now). The course is recent US history.
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The paperback is apparently already available for pre-order!
www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Ow...
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“Much has been said about literature’s capacity to improve our moral sensibilities,” writes Julia Kornberg, but Jeffrey Epstein’s reading habits say more about literature’s ability to “justify our corruption.”
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Jeffrey Epstein, litterateur
On his reading and its uses
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-litterateur
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Sharp piece in the newsletter today by Julia Kornberg on Epstein's literary interests and the myth of reading as morally improving
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Jeffrey Epstein, litterateur
On his reading and its uses
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-litterateur
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Exciting news: Make Your Own Job will be out in paperback this fall. If you've noticed any typos or factual mistakes, now's your last chance to drop me an email and let me know
about 1 month ago
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krat
about 1 month ago
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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We're sharing some great and imagistically unsettling Mentions today
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about 1 month ago
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Good. Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth.
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about 2 months ago
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Jesse Hawken
about 2 months ago
It’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil
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This is an amazing piece about the most important under-the-radar tech story of our time
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
A pro-bug barback meme account, a full-time consumer of opium, an abyss that was once a mountain, Sigma Mussolini, and an onslaught of memories — read a new batch of Mentions by Lev Mamuya, Brian Harkin, Colin Lodewick, Tiffany Berruti, and
@jamieyouwere.bsky.social
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www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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Tonight!! George and I will be talking about modernity, intellectualism, what we can hope for, and other light topics
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
And be sure to check out Ma’s “Sonnet for Desert” while you’re at it.
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Sonnet for Desert
Poetry
https://www.thedriftmag.com/sonnet-for-desert/
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“A pig in the shape of me goes to the gas station.” Read Kathleen Ma’s Issue Sixteen poem “Battle Creek.”
www.thedriftmag.com/battle-creek/
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Battle Creek
Poetry
https://www.thedriftmag.com/battle-creek/
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Enjoyed talking about Make Your Own Job on It's Been a Minute with Brittany Luse at
@npr.org
!
www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...
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How the grindset broke your brain : It's Been a Minute
America’s workers are tired – here’s why.Do you feel like you can never get off the grind? From gig laborers to salaried workers, a lot of people are keeping their noses to the grindstone in order to ...
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5694657/how-the-grindset-broke-your-brain
about 2 months ago
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Excellent piece in the newsletter today from our Minneapolis comrade Pranay Somayajula on developing mass protagonism in response to the DHS assault
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Fighting for the future in occupied Minneapolis
On resisting ICE
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/fighting-for-the-future-in-occupied
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Excellent piece in the newsletter today from our Minneapolis comrade Pranay Somayajula on developing mass protagonism in response to the DHS assault
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Fighting for the future in occupied Minneapolis
On resisting ICE
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/fighting-for-the-future-in-occupied
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about 2 months ago
Introducing a new advice column from Sophie Haigney! “I hope to be conclusive in ways that are surprising and that might not supply what the person asking or reading the question hopes to hear,” she writes.
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Am I okay? Am I healthy? Am I happy?
Introducing a new advice column
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/am-i-okay-am-i-healthy-am-i-happy
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The great Sophie Haigney is writing an advice column for our newsletter! Send in your questions to
[email protected]
with “Advice” in the subject line.
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Am I okay? Am I healthy? Am I happy?
Introducing a new advice column by Sophie Haigney
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/am-i-okay-am-i-healthy-am-i-happy
about 2 months ago
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Bruce Springsteen
about 2 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Powerful reflections from
@katpburke.bsky.social
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Letter From Minnesota: We Are Going to Win
Each morning, I get a Signal message counting up how many days our city has been occupied. It bears information, reminders for new members. There are estimated to be 80,000 of us in the city. The h…
https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-we-are-going-to-win/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Ben Sloan on a Megalopolis talkback
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