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Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isb…

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 02/10/2026
Gregk went on @trashfuture.bsky.social to listen politely as @raaleh.bsky.social recounted a series of non-actionable reported facts about the week’s big news story in the UK, and then discuss an article about the effort to Saigon Airlift Rod Dreher and his dapper friends out of Post-Orban Hungary.
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Lovely Boys feat. Greg Foley | Trashfuture
Lovely Boys feat. Greg Foley by Trashfuture on Patreon. Join Trashfuture's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
look it's my job and also i'm biased but this episode was fantastic (i wasn't on it but i'm on it in spirit because i tried to polish the living daylights out of it in post-production) trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-lo...
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*PREVIEW* Lovely Boys feat. Greg Foley | TRASHFUTURE
Get the entire episode on Patreon here! We’ve got Blood Work’s Greg Foley on to discuss the… happenings, involving another permutation of a guy named Thomas, and some guys in masks, and the British cr...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is staggering work from @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and Josh Lambert in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Job! Come work with us!
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reporting from Budapest's Danube Institute as Viktor Orban's rule unravels, this piece traces how US and European conservatives treated Hungary as a model for using state power against liberal institutions. By @briankgoodman.bsky.social in @thedriftmag.com buff.ly/AeMVDS4
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here’s the link: www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wrote a bit about the backstory for @thedriftmag.com
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Danube Institute USA up and running www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cul...
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Danube Institute USA Raises Awareness about Christian Persecution around the World
The Danube Institute has held a series of events about Christian persecution in the United States. Previously, the institute has also produced a research paper about the fate of Christians in Nigeria,...
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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coming spring '27 at ASU 🔍 Brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, traitors, secret codes, hidden identities and more, in ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction taught by Prof. Brian K Goodman. ow.ly/QtJ150ZQP3F #ASUHumanities
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ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction | An ASU whodunit
Why do we love a good mystery? Is it because of the brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, t...
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can't wait to read this one!
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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s here it’s here!! 🥳 Hate LinkedIn but love novels? Read this book! So excited to receive @sselisker.bsky.social’s excellent book from @academic.oup.com on character networks. Scott is as kind as he is smart and I feel lucky to read and know him.
Cover of Scott Selisker’s book, Character Networks in Contemporary US Fiction
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Poisonous mushroom that spawned a thousand Civics Centers.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Clearly, the world of post-Cold War liberalism is over. But the idea that all the challenges brought on by its collapse can be answered by the postliberal program is a farce." www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"If Pilkington is right that post-Cold War liberals don’t have a good understanding of why their world is falling apart, neither did the postliberals after Magyar’s win." www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even the Dutch shitposting girl was subsidized by the Hungarian state www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day... Interesting piece on the Potemkin village of postliberal Budapest but Goodmans piece ends with the note that perhaps all is not done with Orbanite Postliberalism as it returns to the US.
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks for reading!
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks for reading!
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"It slowly dawned on me that what we were witnessing was not a change of government but a regime change." A fantastic account from the dying days of the Orabn regime and the American intellectuals who loved it.
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact-checkers had to contact my wife for that one.
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my personal favourite
"Fuck it, I'm going to infiltrate the Golden Bastion," I told my wife one damp January evening. She just rolled her eyes,
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quinn found the line that almost made me choke on my pogácsa.
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you have not yet read Brian’s incredible essay on the twilight of Orbán’s postliberal salon, well, what are you waiting for?
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 22/09/2026
The “postliberal” intellectual scene that thrived in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has often been characterized as mere regime propaganda. But when @briankgoodman.bsky.social visited himself, he found something more complex — and more troubling. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"As I drank my burnt espresso, I imagined all the Starbucks locations attached to Barnes & Noble renamed for Leo Strauss." www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'They couldn’t agree about whether he was an Israeli agent or merely “a Jewish chauvinist.” I pretended to focus on my smoked sturgeon as they reassured each other that Epstein actually had a very low sex drive, “like Hitler.”' www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Institute for Advanced Study at CEU @iasceu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our 2025/26 IAS CEU Fellows brought a wide range of research projects and perspectives to our intellectual community. 🎥 In this video, John C. Swanson, Senior Core Fellow in 2025/26, talks about his book project and the questions that drive his research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_SW...
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The Human Stories Hidden in the Auschwitz Album | John C Swanson | IAS CEU
YouTube video by Central European University
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for sharing Lyndsey!
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great piece by my friend Brian Goodman. The Last Days of the Danube Institute www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Aram Ghadimi @aramghadimi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Lesetipp „Für die Postliberalen in Budapest schlug die Stunde des Untergangs – auch wenn sie selbst es noch nicht ahnten.“ @briankgoodman.bsky.social
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In the new American Libraries Magazine. Thanks, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social !
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Still have reflux. Thanks, David!
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Take with Pepcid.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is good, and has an appropriately acid punchline. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 18/09/2026
Someone please write a Georges Simenon-esque romans durs based on this
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I almost spit out my lemonade.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Killer first graf from Brian Goodman in this essay on Hungary for @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 17/09/2026
In Issue Eighteen’s Dispatches section, a group of anonymous contributors — including novelists, academics, doctors, organizers, and more — report on how they are using, not using, or being pushed to use A.I. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-fun...
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Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Fourteen anonymous contributors share how they’re using, not using, or being forced to use A.I.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks, Sam!
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Great piece
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks for reading, Patrick!
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Five intellectuals in close proximity to power can do a lot of damage." Really fascinating @briankgoodman.bsky.social piece on the post-liberal scene (and pseudo-scene) in Hungary www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks, Scott! I was bummed Lee and I didn’t overlap for longer. We need an AZ hang!
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For posterity: a few pics from my first visit to the Institute last January, for an event on “How Non-Liberal Regimes Rule Through the Good Life.” Pogácsa not pictured.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It turns out "infiltrating" the Danube Institute mostly requires filling out an online registration form. That, and eating a lot of dry pastries. The essay is finally out in @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Brian K Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of the stranger experiences of my life! Thanks to the wonderful editors @thedriftmag.com. Happy (and just a little scared) to finally share it...
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