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The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 3w agoOur Issue Eighteen launch party is this week! Featuring readings from @lorakelley.bsky.social, @seamus-malekafzali.com, @benpurkert.bsky.social and more.
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 3w agoJoin us on October 8 at Tavern 29 starting at 7 p.m. to celebrate the launch of Issue Eighteen! Print subscribers get in free.
In Ismail Ibrahim’s Issue Eighteen short story, a beautiful boy entices a patient at a Midwestern rehab center to drive with him to California. Read online today. www.thedriftmag.com/pacific/
Pacific | Fiction
A short story by Ismail Ibrahim from Issue Eighteen.
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“Protein is a wellness trend. As a nutritionist, it just seems weird to me.” In our Issue Eighteen interview, Marion Nestle spoke to us about what it would really mean to make America healthy. www.thedriftmag.com/nobody-is-mi...
“Nobody Is Minding the Store” | An Interview with Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle on MAHA, supplements, GLP-1s, the long tail of the pandemic, the state of nutrition, and more.
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Sophie's September advice column considers the mutual repulsion between phones and plot and what that means for L-O-V-E newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-the-ap...
Can the apps appear in my love story?
The Drift’s advice column #7
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In the September installment of her advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a reader who struggles to imagine digital technology finding a place in a compelling love story. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-the-ap...
Can the apps appear in my love story?
The Drift’s advice column #7
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To mark the publication today of his new book “Man in the Mirror,” @anandwrites.bsky.social spoke with @madeleineebaker.bsky.social about Daniel Penny’s killing of Jordan Neely and the “chronic hum of dehumanization” that pervades our society. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-emotio...
"The emotional inner life of an authoritarian age"
Anand Giridharadas in conversation with Madeleine Baker
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Reporting from Budapest's Danube Institute as Viktor Orban's rule unravels, this piece traces how US and European conservatives treated Hungary as a model for using state power against liberal institutions. By @briankgoodman.bsky.social in @thedriftmag.com buff.ly/AeMVDS4
The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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“Today, it feels like the Muslim community has been seriously politically emboldened.” Read Krithika Varagur’s interview with Aber Kawas, poised to become the first Palestinian-American state senator in New York history. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/we-no-long...
"We no longer feel like we need to hide"
A Q&A with 2026 New York State Senate candidate Aber Kawas
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OUT NOW! We're so excited to support the writers contributing Issue 18 of @thedriftmag.com! In it, you’ll find essays, biopics, and more, as well as new fiction, poetry, Mentions, anonymous Dispatches on A.I., and an interview with Marion Nestle. Learn more: degrootfoundation.org/the-drift-is...
The “postliberal” intellectual scene that thrived in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has often been characterized as mere regime propaganda. But when @briankgoodman.bsky.social visited himself, he found something more complex — and more troubling. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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This is good, and has an appropriately acid punchline. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Killer first graf from Brian Goodman in this essay on Hungary for @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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In the coming weeks we'll be spotlighting each contribution to Issue Eighteen of @thedriftmag.com. First up: anonymous Dispatches on A.I. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-fun...
In Issue Eighteen’s Dispatches section, a group of anonymous contributors — including novelists, academics, doctors, organizers, and more — report on how they are using, not using, or being pushed to use A.I. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-fun...
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Fourteen anonymous contributors share how they’re using, not using, or being forced to use A.I.
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Join us on October 8 at Tavern 29 starting at 7 p.m. to celebrate the launch of Issue Eighteen! Print subscribers get in free.
It turns out "infiltrating" the Danube Institute mostly requires filling out an online registration form. That, and eating a lot of dry pastries. The essay is finally out in @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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One of the stranger experiences of my life! Thanks to the wonderful editors @thedriftmag.com. Happy (and just a little scared) to finally share it...
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 4w agoTo learn more about postliberalism, @briankgoodman.bsky.social infiltrates Budapest’s Danube Institute in the last days of the Orbán regime. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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Today in the newsletter: Colton Valentine in defense of Cusk's Life of M newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/why-genre-...
Why genre matters
Colton Valentine on Rachel Cusk and the roman à clef
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Rachel Cusk’s new novel, “Life of M,” has garnered hostile reviews. But the most dismissive assessments, Colton Valentine argues in our newsletter today, fail to grapple adequately with the roman à clef as a genre. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/why-genre-...
Why genre matters
Colton Valentine on Rachel Cusk and the roman à clef
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“A vague feeling somewhere between shame and pleasure held me for a moment.” In Henri Lipton’s Issue Eighteen story, an underemployed freelancer joins a secretive community of morbid gamblers on the Dark Web. www.thedriftmag.com/unlike-things/
Unlike Things | Fiction
A short story by Henri Lipton from Issue Eighteen.
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The past few years have seen a spate of novels, films, and plays featuring content moderators, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in a new Issue Eighteen preview. But many of these works give a misleading impression of how the tech industry actually functions. www.thedriftmag.com/everything-i...
Everything in Moderation | Tech Fiction’s Discontents
By Lora Kelley. The recent slate of content moderation fiction might depict a world that no longer exists.
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