Archive - The Drift

Mentioned this week: Houston, Salt Lake City, Albany, Minneapolis, Detroit, St. Louis, and King Salmon, AK

The Drift’s late-summer travel guide

Aug 5 • The Drift

July 2026

How can I get my partner to be cleaner?

The Drift’s advice column #7

Jul 29 • The Drift and Sophie

Mentioned this week: the most unbelievable "bruh" ever recorded

Plus: a plastic bag balaclava, thornless honeylocusts, the grasp of the sublime, and the pursuit of a Godly woman

Jul 23 • The Drift

"Both poetry and science name things to bring them into being"

A Q&A with Abou Farman

Jul 21 • The Drift

Sculpture in and out of time

Eternity or dissolution?

Jul 17 • Max Norman

In the vacuum of feminism

Alexandra Brodsky on online Platner apologia

Jul 16 • The Drift

The Passion of Lionel Messi

Andres Vaamonde on the GOAT and Argentine culture

Jul 15 • The Drift

Think VAR is ruining the World Cup? Your workplace is next

The rise of digital twins

Jul 10 • The Drift

More atom bomb than silver bullet

Piper French on RICO

Jul 8 • Tarpley

The Drift on America

Too much birthday

Jul 2 • The Drift

June 2026

Endless painting

Two recent New York gallery shows

Jun 30 • Max Norman

Do I need to stop ordering delivery?

The Drift's advice column #6

Jun 26 • The Drift

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