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2025 at The Drift

Surviving the intellectual apocalypse

The year in Drift events

Israel's archaeological apartheid: an update

Our most-read pieces of 2025

Save the date: January 14

The year in thirty insults

The year in Drift fiction

Volunteering for the pyre

"Crime talk is never just about crime"

Issue Sixteen is here!

"Autumn came with the idea, somehow"

Give the gift of The Drift

Barbies at the Gate

It's November 18 for the 1,403rd time

An innate, unmediated, innocent lust

The weaponization of food in Sudan

My father, my father, my father

You're Invited: Celebrating On the Calculation of Volume: Book III

Erik Baker on not giving a f*ck

Hot and polyphonic

What it is like to starve in Gaza

Zohran Mamdani vs. the NYPD

"Something happened to me / related to difficulty"

Close reading angry political posts about Love Island

"The crisis years began"

Hamada Shaqura on cooking in Gaza

"I still want a part of desperate living"

Tope Folarin on political faith

Catch us at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday!

Celebrating three Drift contributors on the National Book Awards longlists

Mentioned this week: A drifter who may or may not sometimes transform into a crow

"The state has become his dick"

Mentioned this week: a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, and more

A changing immigrant America

The mist itself!

Democratic participation and governmental accountability

"The poem is for asking questions and being unsure"

The socialism of morons

The making of a Drift cover

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on hope

"A question of intensity"

Eman Abdelhadi on the future of pro-Palestine politics

Issue Fifteen launch party tonight!

"The misfires of adult transmission"

Collapsing the urban-rural divide

One week until our Issue Fifteen launch party!

Nikhil Pal Singh on American democracy

Adam Tooze on the Trump economy

State of exception

Issue Fifteen launch party

Issue Fifteen is here!

"Like a sick heart"

Jamie Hood on the rehabilitation of rape culture

Mitch Therieau on the White House's agit-slop

The heresy of Americanism

Little cow of god!

Gaby Del Valle on ideological conflict in MAGAworld

Elisa Gonzalez on the Fourteenth Amendment and its enemies

Jake Bittle on the end of climate policy

"One edge of the climate crisis"

Piper French on Trump's Department of Justice

The millennial sex novel

The Drift's first poetry reading

From capitalist pigs to poisoned puppies

"The border itself as a site of violence"

What Was Twitter?

Mentioned this week: Richard Dawkins, Mill City Museum, the Twelve Tribes, and more

The campus protest movement, one year later

"Preparation is a form of building power"

Ask an editor

How to live with them, and without them

Save the date: what was Twitter?

Reporting on terror

Close reading ChatGPT's "metafiction"

When The Drift took on Dr. Fauci…

The first five years of The Drift – and the next five

State violence and the university

"Writers do well when we cast ourselves as villains"

Close reading Jeff Bezos

Oscar contenders, Mentioned

Sophie Madeline Dess on siblings, obsessions, and her debut novel

"The mad king of a high-tech feudal state"

"It's a mistake to imagine fire as a natural phenomenon"