Madeleine Baker
@madeleineebaker.bsky.social
Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, author of Make Your Own Job madeleineebaker.com
Perennial debate easily solved with the MacIntyrean concept of practices. All cinema is art qua creative expression, but the medium permits different artistic practices. Apichatpong and James Gunn are clearly engaged in different practices with different standards of excellence, internal goods, etc.
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last wk.Cinema can be art, but not all cinema is art. Some movies are entertainment, not that hard to understand.
New installment of Max Norman's art column asks whether sculpture is about creating something permanent newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/sculpture-...
Sculpture in and out of time
Eternity or dissolution?
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Really grateful for Alexandra Brodsky—for everything, but especially for this commentary on the disappearance of public feminism: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/in-the-vac...
In the vacuum of feminism
Alexandra Brodsky on online Platner apologia
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“We’re now in a real drought of public feminist thought, even when it comes to topics that cry out for gender analysis,” @azbrodsky.bsky.social writes in a reflection on the post-Platner internet. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/in-the-vac...
In the vacuum of feminism
Alexandra Brodsky on online Platner apologia
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If you want to know more, you can buy or borrow the book, and it will of course also make you incredibly rich and generate passive income for life ;) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...
Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read: 9780593443927 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy...
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We have @azbrodsky.bsky.social in the newsletter today with a sharp piece on how the retreat of feminism in public discourse has made everyone incredibly stupid newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/in-the-vac...
In the vacuum of feminism
Alexandra Brodsky on online Platner apologia
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Andres Vaamonde inaugurates The Drift's entry into sports commentary with a sharp piece on Messi and the battle to make Argentina great again newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-passio...
The Passion of Lionel Messi
Andres Vaamonde on the GOAT and Argentine culture
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In advance of this afternoon’s Argentina-England World Cup semifinal, Andres Vaamonde examines the career of Lionel Messi and his complex place in Argentine culture. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-passio...
The Passion of Lionel Messi
Andres Vaamonde on the GOAT and Argentine culture
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"It was Valentine’s Day, 2005, and hearts were breaking on 70 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan."
Caddie Alford@caddiealford.bsky.social · 4w agoI love lil' windows into work-in-progress-lands. Fellow Authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current work in progress?
brain poisoned, gutter misogyny. 1) that there is (thankfully) no norm for releasing the play-by-play of personal messages in cases like this and 2) the detail about being explicitly told not to come over and coming over anyway does not in any way complicate this story
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago"she asked for it"
A lot of men in allegedly left-wing media telling us loud and clear who they are
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago"she asked for it"
In our newsletter today, @tarpley.bsky.social revisits @psfrench.bsky.social’s Drift essay on RICO in light of the Trump administration’s intensifying criminalization of protest. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/more-atom-...
More atom bomb than silver bullet
Piper French on RICO
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How could the organization that sponsors the FIFA Peace Prize do this
"Belgium is a failed state in the heart of Europe which is something to aspire to." - Joshua Clover
Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding
Celebrate the 4th of July the old fashioned way: reading a trans woman criticizing Ronald Reagan
The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · last mo.In May 1980, Reagan gave a speech in which he characterized Carter's environmental regulations as “job-killing.” Our article of the week shows how this line was not just a slogan but part of a longer neoliberal project. By @madeleineebaker.bsky.social in @mihjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/JW2xA6r
Surely a good sign that the conservative movement's strategy in response to the birthright citizenship decision seems to be simply to lie. They've got nothing
To emphasize a point Snitty makes in her thread: Excluding trans kids from sports is about cutting them out of public life. The lies people pushed about "fairness" were a thin cover for anti-trans bigotry. For most athletes sports are about socialization. They're taking that away from trans kids.
Snitty@clofsnitville.bsky.social · last mo.Reposting an old thread of mine to say as a former college athlete, I want trans girls and trans women to be able to participate in sports. Let them run, let them swim, let them play.
How is this the first I'm hearing that there is an active "Bottoms for Governor" campaign right now
Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · last mo.That’s Fetterman tho
Shorter SCOTUS: the president can do whatever he wants except make line go down
This month Sophie Haigney's column gives some virtue-ethics advice about food delivery newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/do-i-need-...
Do I need to stop ordering delivery?
The Drift's advice column #6
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