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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

Cultural Views: The Drift Magazine – July 19, 2024

The Drift Magazine (July 19, 2024): The latest issue features Maybe fortresses come to violence like an addiction. Maybe the water is just water. The tide abandons what it leaves. We have absolutely no way of controlling the cane toad. “I love anyone who hears my screams.” You ever cry with that knowledge? Do they kiss on the mouth? What will the bears say? I am not yet a trampoline. No doors exist and nobody’s home. Simply because they are eternally young, beautiful, and dead.

Editors’ Note​|Walled Off

THE EDITORS

“History as It Is Happening”​|An Interview with Rachel Kushner

The Fortress University​|Protesting and Policing on Campus

ERIK BAKER

Time and Time Again​|Proust in the Age of Retranslation

SIMON LESER

The Ink in the Inkwell​|Literature of the Black Resort Town

MELVIN BACKMAN

No Atlanta Way​|Stop Cop City Meets the Establishment

SAM WORLEY

Culture & Politics: The Drift Magazine – Fall 2023

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The Drift Magazine – Fall 2023 Issue – Essays on dissidents, ecoterrorists, and mermaids; an interview with Veronica Gago, Dispatches on the future of the Supreme Court; also fiction, poetry, reviews and more…

Culture & Politics: The Drift – February 28, 2023

The Drift Magazine – February 28, 2023 Issue – We called it heterosexual oppression. Like replacing a piece of your skull with a smartwatch.

Electric Bodies | Medical Technology Takes Over

Through a growing focus on healthcare monitoring in recent years, Apple has positioned its wearables as essential accessories for the technophile and the casual hypochondriac alike. 

Like so many other predictions of collapse, exaggerated.  Methylphenidate  for Miriam. Two executives showed up for a meeting dressed as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. A source of revolutionary Marxist critiques, an outright conservative, a peddler of flimsy conspiracy theories. Some days I am so filled with myself I can see nothing. I am not going to apologize for the empire, for our history. Bravissima! Stealth, he kept no socials. She had martini-glass tits. In this city every boy is an isotope. Enter among the truly civilized peoples. Cruising for difference. The body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the paws of a tiger, the tail of an ox, and needle-like hairs. Wainscoting for an all-knowing liberalism. How can a narrow regional tabloid claim itself The World? The surrealist didn’t prescribe life-sized butter ears. Spend how you want the sixtyish years you have left of your life

Words Exchanged | Italophone Somalia, Then and Now

“Italian language teaching is back in Somalia!” the Italian embassy in Somalia tweeted in late September 2021, announcing a new program at the Somali National University that would reintroduce the language of the country’s former colonizer.