Counter-culture | Portside

tv

July 13, 2025

TV Is Tapping Into Our Collective Desire To Rage Against the Machine

Avishay Artsy AV Club

From a trippy Adult Swim satire to a Star Wars saga, shows this year are making the case to question and push back against the system.

books

September 27, 2018

Distant Early Warning of Worse to Come

Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed

Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, and offers an foretaste of the viperous Age of Trump.

Subscribe to Counter-culture