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Josef Albers, 1963:

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Make Your Own Job is now available in audiobook form, wherever you get yours! Enrich your commute, chores, and walks by learning about generalized overproduction, precarious work, and our society's ideological responses www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/ma...

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

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“Birthright citizenship has become, again, a ‘great question’ unsettled in the minds of Americans.” Read Elisa Gonzalez on the war against the Fourteenth Amendment, past and present. www.thedriftmag.com/brutality-an...

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We have new Dispatch out today from Elisa Gonzalez on the enemies of birthright citizenship and the subversion of the 14th Amendment! www.thedriftmag.com/brutality-an...

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“American management has never been more convinced of its own enlightenment.” That one short sentence, on page 2 of @erikmbaker.bsky.social ’s book, Make Your Own Job, is not only true, but an apt synopsis of so much that is wrong right now.

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Today we're publishing an incisive new dispatch from Jake Bittle on how Biden's much-ballyhooed climate agenda has already been mostly repealed www.thedriftmag.com/a-disaster-b...

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Firefighter, anthropologist, and Drift contributor Jordan Thomas speaks with our Editorial Assistant Shreya Chattopadhyay about his new book, When It All Burns, and the shape of climate disaster today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/one-edge-o...

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Nice review in the hometown paper - I chuckled at the caveat emptor for Trib loyalists that the author and I are both "rooted in a pro-labor political left" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/17/b...

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NEW DRIFT ISSUE INCOMING!! First preview: @psfrench.bsky.social on how the Trump administration has smoothed over the contradictions at the heart of the Department of Justice by refashioning it into an institution that exclusively does bad things. www.thedriftmag.com/unified-purp...

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I really appreciated this thoughtful review!

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Today, our Associate Fiction Editor Livia Wood revisits Noor Qasim’s great essay on Annie Ernaux and her millennial imitators newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-millen...

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four hour loop of sufjan singing "i made a lot of mistakes" over and over and over.

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Not even mad about the Cavs anymore lmao

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In the newsletter: Drift issue 1 contributor @bolman.bsky.social puts his essay on xenotransplantation there in dialogue with his new book, out today, on beagle experimentation newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/from-capit...

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My official take: lol

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Academia has officially entered its late Soviet phase: students pretend to work and professors pretend to grade them

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Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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I genuinely have a hard time imagining what my life would be like - the kind of writer, editor, and thinker I would be today - without n+1. Please do whatever can afford to do to keep this magazine alive.

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Just started reading @erikmbaker.bsky.social ‘s book Make Your Own Job after learning about it on the fantastic KYE episode from January (know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/the...). Fantastically insightful & overlaps with magical thinking topics the Conspirituality pod team covers.

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Happy TGS day! This week we have @erikmbaker.bsky.social on the Harvard Business School grifter who made your working life worse — Elton Mayo! Anyways here’s a clip of the Office.

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Some good people at GWU are under the impression that I have some wisdom to impart on the current catastrophe. I will do my best to prove them right on Monday evening - hope to see you there

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A sentence I never thought I'd write: I made an appearance in the Wall Street Journal today

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We can “understand modern immigration policy not as a duel between reform and reaction but rather as, in Walter Benjamin’s famous phrase, one single catastrophe,” writes @erikmbaker.bsky.social, revisiting Elisa Gonzalez’s 2022 essay on border brutality. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-border...

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They are not. We have maybe the worst political system in the developed world, one that makes an unrepresentative sliver of voters with no principles who aren't really paying attention decisive. Every few months, they get profiled like a set of jangling keys and folks want to throw democracy away.

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I wrote our newsletter for today, on Elisa Gonzalez’s excellent 2022 examination of the bipartisan and barbaric history of American immigration policy newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-border...

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Gooooood morning! This week on the pod we have @erikmbaker.bsky.social talking about this dude, who might be the reason for those stupid pizza party incentives at your awful job. Now accepting guesses!

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ICE deported a US citizen child suffering from a rare form of cancer. It’s like they are trying to break their own records for depravity. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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As a cradle Commonweal Catholic I was overjoyed by this wonderful review of Make Your Own Job by @drwclvrt.bsky.social! www.commonwealmagazine.org/calvert-work...

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For those who missed out on our panel on the demise of the other website and the rise(?) of this one, you can now read the transcript in our newsletter! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/what-was-t...

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The golden age of academic book design.

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New batch of Mentions! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/mentioned-...

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Francis's vision gave the Church its best chance of regaining its vitality in the 21st c. without radical transformation. Now I suspect we will enter a period of brother against brother, father against son, children against parents. But for Christ that was a hopeful possibility.

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Today in our newsletter, the philosopher Ege Yumuşak reflects on the legacy of last year's campus Palestine solidarity movement and both the power and the limitations of the new film The Encampments newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-campus...

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“‘The Encampments’ portrays the courage of the students as exceptional. In a sense, that vision is right,” Ege Yumuşak writes. But it also builds “fences around the university, and consequently the student movement.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-campus...

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Today in our newsletter, the philosopher Ege Yumuşak reflects on the legacy of last year's campus Palestine solidarity movement and both the power and the limitations of the new film The Encampments newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-campus...

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This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

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Didn’t get a ticket to our sold-out twitter panel? You can still hear from @elenamsb.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Delia Cai, and Sam Adler-Bell by tuning in to the livestream at the link below: nyu.zoom.us/j/98727685171

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“Every book I write, I get accused of being too pessimistic,” Malcolm Harris told Lyra Walsh Fuchs about his new book, out today. “And then reality happens and it’s way worse. And then I try to compensate with the next book, and I still can’t catch up.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/preparatio...

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Today in our newsletter we have Malcolm Harris talking to our essays editor Lyra about his new book and why it's still relevant under the reign of Trump and Musk newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/preparatio...

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In honor of the publication tomorrow of @quinnslobodian.com's new book Hayek's Bastards I'm sharing the news-to-me that Y Combinator alums have created a VC firm that is literally called the Pioneer Fund

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Central Ohio friends - I am giving a lecture at Kenyon on Thursday evening that is open to the public. Would love to see you there! www.kenyon.edu/events/entre...

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New art for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: The Four Ivies, a Haggadah Supplement. Chag Sameach! jewishcurrents.org/the-four-ivi...

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Within days of assuming top role, CU trustee-president Claire Shipman personally intervenes to terminate the appeal process of disciplined students and workers, including Grant Miner, shattering any illusion of due process.

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