DRIFT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW

THE DRIFT MAGAZINE (June 24, 2025): The latest issue Fifteen features It’s morning in America. Daphne, chased by Apollo, grows hooves. We live in an age of conspiracism and insincerity. Spring and summer will not follow. Staying below two degrees might be a challenge. It’d be corny to call it Orwellian. We reached the limits of what moral outrage can do. Miraculously, we still made decisions. Acting recklessly. Lining up at the barricades. The more you have, the more you have to protect. Eye contact is everything. Already, the oil field was quieter. Misogyny converts reality. All that love for objects. It sanctifies him. He wore a face that spoke of multiple divorces. She was bitter about her beauty. That’s all in an evening screening. We’re in a definitional war. Publicity beats truth. Art that risks nothing is worth nothing. A negation of the possibility of forgetting. A private fiefdom. A child on whom childhood was wasted. A game of inches. Ask a pundit or professor. There are only so many laughs to be had.
Interviews

“They’re Using Megaphones”​ | An Interview with Wendy Brown

The Drift Editors

“Losing Any Claim to Moral Leadership”​ | An Interview with Nikhil Pal Singh

The Drift Editors

“We Will Not Win on Our Own”​ | An Interview with Eman Abdelhadi

The Drift Editors

“Politics Is Conflictual”​ | An Interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

The Drift Editors

“All Sticks, No Carrots”​ | An Interview with Adam Tooze

The Drift Editors

Dispatches on the New Regime

Unified Purpose and Total Vision​ | Our New Department of Justice

Piper French

State of Exception​ | National Security Governance, Then and Now

David Klion

A Bureaucratic and Feminine Mind​ | The Right’s Misogyny Politics

Becca Rothfeld

Brutality and Opacity​ | Birthright Citizenship Under Attack

Elisa Gonzalez

Agit-Slop​ | The White House’s Numbing Aesthetic

Mitch Therieau

A Disaster Big Enough​ | Climate Policy on Life Support

Jake Bittle

Competing Moral Visions​ | Two Paths for Pronatalism

Gaby Del Valle

Easy to Exploit​ | Collapsing the Urban-Rural Divide

Nick Bowlin

Collective Political Activity​ | Reclaiming the First Amendment

Rhiannon Hamam

Anti-Anti-Rape​ | On the #MeToo Backlash

Jamie Hood

God-Like Confidence​ | Donald Trump’s Cult of Faith

Tope Folarin

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