We are launching our first-ever internship program this summer! Visit our website for more details. Applications are due by April 10. bit.ly/4aXdZQw
05.03.2026 18:04
👍 5
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 1
We are launching our first-ever internship program this summer! Visit our website for more details. Applications are due by April 10. bit.ly/4aXdZQw
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
The February installment of Sophie Haigney’s advice column addresses the question of where to live, and why committing is easier said than done.
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/where-will...
Thrilled to have these stories by @samuelmjensen.bsky.social, Nick Foretek, and Elisa Gonzalez recognized by the National Magazine Awards!
Soooooo proud of this recognition - what amazing company. I'm so happy that this will draw attention to these amazing stories!
Latest installment of Sophie’s new advice column, on moving and optionality newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/where-will...
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/you-might-...
Let me know how it goes!
Hey, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, your turn's tonight!
I like sports headlines that could also be summaries of medieval chivalric romance
Get your copy to read my piece!
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.
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-foundi...
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 newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-foundi...
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:
www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064...
Mac Forehand, with a name like that you really should be playing baseball
I've taught The Social Network before as a cynical post-industrial Arrowsmith. Ma nuit chez Maud is what comes to mind first for "cinematic novel of ideas."
Directed by Cronenberg lmao it's a must-see
Thanks so much for including!
A stack of books on a desk. The books are as follows, by week they we read them. Week 2: Ball, Blake Scott. Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. Oxford University Press, 2021. Week 3: Stein, Judith. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies. Yale University Press, 2011. Week 4: Ansfield, Bench. Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City. Norton, 2025. Week 5: McKevitt, Andrew C. Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. North Carolina University Press, 2023. Week 6: Baker, Erik. Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. Harvard University Press, 2025. Week 7: Chatelain, Marcia. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Norton, 2021. Week 8: Shepherd, Laura Lassabe. Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Week 9: Brownell, Kathryn Cramer. 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News. Princeton University Press, 2023. Week 10: Black, Liza. Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960. University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Week 11: Goodman, Carly. Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Week 12: Jones, Howard. My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness. Oxford, 2017. Week 13: Kamensky, Jane. Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below. Norton, 2024. Week 14: Renfro, Paul M. The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. University of North Carolina Press. Week 15: Colby, Jason M. Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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.
The paperback is apparently already available for pre-order! www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Ow...
“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.”
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
Sharp piece in the newsletter today by Julia Kornberg on Epstein's literary interests and the myth of reading as morally improving
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
And if you'd like to have me hawk the new edition on or at your campus/podcast/bookstore/left-wing community space please reach out!
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
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
We're sharing some great and imagistically unsettling Mentions today