Vital post about an incredibly important and under-analyzed ideological development

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

Thanks to my friend Allison for letting me write about my Man of the Year boymovies.substack.com/p/boy-movies...

In the West Bank, Jasper Nathaniel writes in today’s newsletter, the “Israeli occupation bars Palestinians from maintaining their own heritage sites, then cites the resulting deterioration as justification for taking them.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/israels-ar...

We’re grateful to everyone who spent time with our work this year. Don’t miss our most-read pieces of 2025!

Thank you for making this essay our second-most-read piece of the year!

This entire weekend

Thank you to Biblioracle at the Chicago Tribune for this hilarious and fitting recognition!

Tonight!

Santa Fe folks, ABQ folks who happen to be free on a Friday night and are interested in these sorts of things: what a treat this would be

If you are near Santa Fe, I hope you will join me at St. John's tomorrow evening, where I will be talking about Alasdair MacIntyre, the Catholic Worker, Wendell Berry, K Records, and Laura Jane Grace events.sjc.edu/event/deans-...

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen. www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...

It's giving me in middle school health

The first industrial revolution gave capitalists steam power and mechanization, the second electricity and the assembly line, and the third computers. "The fourth, apparently, will let middle management play The Sims." Go read Max's brilliant @thedriftmag.com piece on digital twins!

The fucks are at it again.

Very honored to see Make Your Own Job recommended on the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2025" list www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Tragically the Digital Surveillance Ritual clocked me once more

Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure! www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...

I have two new poems in @thedriftmag.com today 🫶 www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/

Read the full issue online today. www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...

Issue Sixteen is here! 🧵

“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 writes. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure! www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...

Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-cam...

New Book Review for the Society for US Intellectual History is up on @susih.bsky.social (11/30/25): s-usih.org/2025/11/andr...

Since the early 20th century, as Erik Baker shows in his fantastic book, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America," myriad politicians, economists, psychologists, management experts, & motivational speakers have prodded Americans to embrace their inner entrepreneur.

This review is every author's dream come true. If you're curious about my book I can think of no better overview of its intellectual and political commitments.

Reënter this *vulgar gesture*

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Really smart and thorough analysis of why Democrats get branded as elites and Republicans don’t.

👌💯‼️https://thebaffler.com/latest/one-elite-two-elites-red-elite-blue-elite-baker

once you go TERF, you never post normal again

The garden of our love was an oasis in a desert of unsatisfying relationships, watered by trust and flowering in the form of all the things we would do together. Merriam-Webster defines "commitment" as

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers

oh man, Todd Snider. way too fucking young open.spotify.com/track/5Kgoem...

I have read a LOT of romantasy out of an intense and abiding fascination/need to understand What The Hell Is Going On With Women In My Age Group. This essay from @thedriftmag.com really nails it, without the sneering you usually find in litcrit on the genre. www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...

Actually burst out laughing at this. Brando Sando...you're so close to getting why your writing keeps getting rejected...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

I love all my children equally, of course, but this is honestly one of my favorite pieces we've published in a long while. So funny, so insightful, and the definitive essay on romantasy. www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...

“The heroines of romantasy are flicked, nuzzled, ridden, throttled, bitten, pulled, plowed, hit, filled, soaked, and — here’s a Maas favorite — shattered.” Daniel Yadin examines the genre taking over American publishing in a new piece from Issue Sixteen. www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...

I love all my children equally, of course, but this is honestly one of my favorite pieces we've published in a long while. So funny, so insightful, and the definitive essay on romantasy. www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...

Once again had trouble narrowing down my four favorite mini-reviews in the latest issue of The Drift @thedriftmag.com

“The only durable response to Sudan’s famine lies with its own civilians, who must be empowered to resist the militarization of hunger,” Shahad Elfaki argues in a new Dispatch from Issue Sixteen. www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-...

"Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs"