The Drift

For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a journal called The Drift, which is a young (less than five years old) socialist periodical that’s based in New York City.

Whenever I tell my friends that I’m reading The Drift, they rush to tell me that the magazine is no longer cool, or that they don’t read it, or that it’s far inferior to any number of other magazines that occupy a similar intellectual space.

It is shocking how unanimous this verdict is. Not once has someone said, “Oh yes, I read The Drift too.”