Roman-Flood Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Diabolic Realism

In our essays section, Max Norman assesses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s swerve from realism in his new series.

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Directing the Herd Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.

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.

A Nicely Situated Ideal Dispatches on the Public Sphere

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

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Editors’ Note The House Never Chickens Out

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...

The Judgment of the Masses Chomsky was incapable of glimpsing anything but media brainwashing stirring up the irrationality of the masses against his friend. In “the public domain,” Chomsky told Epstein, “innuendo and suspicion...

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...

A Nicely Situated Ideal Dispatches on the Public Sphere

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.

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A Nicely Situated Ideal Dispatches on the Public Sphere

Read the rest of our Dispatches on the public sphere here www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...

The Judgment of the Masses Chomsky was incapable of glimpsing anything but media brainwashing stirring up the irrationality of the masses against his friend. In “the public domain,” Chomsky told Epstein, “innuendo and suspicion...

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!

In the Twilight of the Christian West: A Theology of Mourning and Resi As far-right authoritarianism resurges under the banner of preserving Western civilization, Mac Loftin reveals how white Christian nationalism’s political will is shaped by a theology of power within ...

Erin have you read my friend Mac's new book? Absolutely phenomenal read that makes this point well orbisbooks.com/products/in-...

Roman-Flood Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Diabolic Realism

New piece today: an extremely thoughtful dissection of Knausgaard's new series by Max Norman www.thedriftmag.com/roman-flood/

Issue 17 Extremely abbreviated reviews

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...

Devochka Fiction

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

Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld DHS’s Regime of Images

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...

Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld DHS’s Regime of Images

Cowboy hats and penguin poop: Trump’s meme agitprop www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld DHS’s Regime of Images

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...

Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld DHS’s Regime of Images

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...

Amy Chua tells her law student to write a memoir

via @erikmbaker.bsky.social

The Blonde Fiction

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 have been outspoken throughout my career about the unique evils of nuclear weapons but I also think we need to be wary of a nuclear fetishism that lets conventional warfare off the hook. I increasingly feel that aerial bombardment per se should be our target.

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...

Fraud with Benefits How Breaking the Rules Makes Welfare Work

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

Can I make a living from my art without killing the romance? The Drift's advice column #3

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.”

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Can I make a living from my art without killing the romance? The Drift's advice column #3

March installment of Sophie’s advice column just in the nick of time!

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