Erik Baker

A Bureaucratic and Feminine Mind The Right’s Misogyny Politics

“If anti-Semitism is the proverbial socialism of fools,” Becca Rothfeld writes in Issue Fifteen, “then rage against the twentysomething groundlings who work at an Australian skincare company is the socialism of morons.”

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Ever wonder how a Drift cover comes together? Our print designer Ivy Sanders Schneider explains the process – and how she reenvisions designs from early 20th century socialist magazines for the present day.

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The making of a Drift cover Behind the scenes with our print designer

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Harvard Business School and the creation of the MBA with Erik Baker - American Campus Podcast That degree.References mentioned this episode:Erik Baker. 2025. Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern America. Harvard University Press.Erik Baker’s websiteSimon Callow’s Orson W...

A quick podcast episode with the great @llassabe on MYOJ and the early history of graduate business education americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It

as correct as michael is here this is the inverse of how it works in the world of elite commentary, where a willingness to entertain race science somehow makes you more credible for your "heterodoxy" (see: charles murray)

"You don’t win by being perpetually afraid of saying anything that people outside of your group will not respond well to. You win by winning."

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“Politics Is Conflictual” “Massive changes often unfold on large time scales,” philosopher Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò told The Drift in 2022.

“I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about hope,” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social tells us. “Hope is great.” Read the interview from Issue Fifteen today.

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Feels impossible to sum up Ozzy in anything less than a song, so I'll give you this one about him by @themountaingoats.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEB...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Absolutely insane and disgraceful to the entire university www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Great interview about one of the most exciting new novels of the year!

Behind the Book with Historian Erik Baker — Harvard University Press Historian and author Erik Baker takes us behind-the-scenes of his recently published book, Make Your Own Job.

I did not see this when it first came out, but I just learned the press put out a Q&A with me that I quite enjoyed doing, so I wanted to share. www.hup.harvard.edu/features/beh...

Hungry children in Gaza pick through rubbish in search of food Footage shared online, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows children in Gaza sifting through rubbish in search of food, amid soaring levels of hunger due to an Israeli blockade. One video shows three young boys standing and eating amid a pile of rubbish on the street, picking scraps from the refuse. Another clip showed a child opening a bag of rubbish on the street, rummaging through it in search of anything to eat. Gaza’s Health Ministry has warned that unprecedented numbers of starving people are presenting at hospital emergency wards in the territory, with many at risk of dying of starvation. Health officials say 17,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition.

"Footage [from Gaza] shows three young boys standing and eating amid a pile of rubbish on the street, picking scraps from the refuse.

Another clip showed a child opening a bag of rubbish on the street, rummaging through it in search of anything to eat."

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“We Will Not Win on Our Own” In April 2024, Columbia’s administration brought in the New York Police Department to dismantle the tents that had been set up by pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the university’s South Lawn.

“We’ve reached the limits of what moral outrage can do without material political power backing it up,” @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells us in a new interview from Issue Fifteen.

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As the prophecy foretold

"Love your neighbor, but don't go overboard" - Jesus Christ

Tyler said this in a podcast hosted by Bari Weiss about how extremist and radical the progressive left has gotten.

Not strictly speaking false

My sincerest thanks to an anonymous airport bookstore worker comrade

Holy shit lol

Just profoundly evil

“Politics Is Conflictual” “Massive changes often unfold on large time scales,” philosopher Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò told The Drift in 2022.

“I think we can move a little more slowly from a diagnosis that elite capture is at play in some political area to a decision about what we should do about it.”

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, interviewed by @thedrift-mag.bsky.social
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Issue 15 Extremely abbreviated reviews

An aspiring vampire, dripping wreckage, “benign silliness,” lights fit for a starlet, and America’s Marquis de Sade –– read Issue Fifteen Mentions from Aaron Labaree, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, Mark Steinbach, Nicki Klar, and Noa Wesley.

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Thanks to everyone who has given me very helpful advice about how to make this site more useable! I appreciate it even if my productivity perhaps does not

It's so good lol

Claire did you know that "Dennis" derives from "Dionysus"?? I learned this a week or two ago and I haven't been able to think about anything else since

Good advice, thank you!

The net result, however, has just been less time spent on social media overall, which is surely a good thing