Party for <em>The Drift</em>, a Cool New Magazine

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Kaitlyn: Being a hater takes years off of your life, so it’s better to try to be a fan. When I first heard about The Drift, the new magazine for young intellectuals, I had a knee-jerk negative reaction due to internship trauma—in 2014, I worked hundreds of unpaid hours for another magazine that was going to breathe life back into American political and literary discourse, but turned out to be a ridiculous operation run by jerks. I’m also defensive about the suggestion that all of the uncool magazines that have been around since, oh, say, 1857, are staffed by skittish prudes who wouldn’t dare to touch the outré ideas that a cool new magazine must dedicate itself to championing. (Both of these are clearly “me problems.”)

But I like magazines in general because I like reading. I also like parties: I like to be part of what’s going on, especially if I can do so in a way that won’t involve actually doing or saying anything myself. If I can stand in a room and sip a drink and be counted … that’s perfect. So I paid $15 plus fees for a ticket to ’s Issue Six launch party at the