Portside

Beating back the broligarchs

These would-be rebels in Northern Virginia joined the fight against data centers mostly to stop the encroachment on their homes and exclusive private communities. Here is the country’s thickest concentration of data centers—233 centers in all...

Much of the pleasure of “Mountainhead” is the way it reflects our preposterous nightmare world. It’s not fun to live in a dawning age of technofeudalism, but it is satisfying to see it channeled into comedy.