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Was It Cooler Back Then?
A search for the memory of R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia.
by
Benjamin Hedin
via
Oxford American
on
December 5, 2023
The Surprisingly Radical Roots of the Renaissance Fair
The first of these festivals debuted in the early 1960s, serving as a prime example of the United States' burgeoning counterculture.
by
Gillian Bagwell
via
Smithsonian
on
September 28, 2023
The Dank Underground
In the late Sixties, countercultural media was distributed by the Underground Press Syndicate and bankrolled by marijuana.
by
J. Hoberman
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 26, 2023
The Cult Roots of Health Food in America
How the Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
by
Diana Hubbell
via
Atlas Obscura
on
April 19, 2023
Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism
What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?
by
Malcolm Harris
via
The Nation
on
June 13, 2022
Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance
Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created masterpieces. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist?
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
June 8, 2022
Why The People's Yellow Pages, A Relic Of '70s Counterculture, Still Resonates Today
Fifty years later, The Yellow Pages stand as a testament to grassroots ingenuity and the radical idealism of '70s counterculture.
by
Amelia Mason
via
WBUR
on
June 28, 2021
Janis Joplin, the Mistaken Icon of the Counterculture
The counterculture dictum to “turn on, tune in, drop out” did not quite capture Janis’s philosophy to “get it while you can.”
by
Shalon Van Tine
via
Tropics of Meta
on
March 15, 2020
What Happened to Rock and Roll After Altamont?
Buzz Poole on the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie,” and the true end of the Sixties.
by
Buzz Poole
via
Literary Hub
on
December 6, 2019
When Science Was Groovy
Counterculture-inspired research flourished in the Age of Aquarius.
by
W. Patrick McCray
,
David I. Kaiser
via
Science
on
August 5, 2019
Aquarius Rising
Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.
by
Jackson Lears
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 6, 2018
Boston’s Most Radical TV Show Blew the Minds of a Stoned Generation in 1967
When a Tufts instructor launched the trippy TV show on WGBH, it was unlike anything viewers had ever seen.
by
Ryan H. Walsh
via
Boston Globe
on
March 1, 2018
The Long Summer of Love
Historians get hip to the lasting influences of ’60s counterculture
by
Zoe Corbyn
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
September 3, 2017
That ’70s Show
Forty years ago, Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff, and a whole host of Texas misfits brought the hippies and rednecks together in outlaw country.
by
John Spong
via
Texas Monthly
on
January 21, 2013
Locker-Room Liberty
Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.
by
Matt Welch
via
Reason
on
May 1, 2005
See America First
Two movies, 'Easy Rider' and 'Alice's Restaurant,' reveal the ideals of counterculture and act as vehicles for social commentary.
by
Ellen Willis
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 2, 1970
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Alt Text
A brief history of the textfile, and the production of conspiracy theories on the internet.
by
Walter J. Scheirer
via
HNN
on
May 8, 2024
How Candida Royalle Set Out to Reinvent Porn
As a feminist in the adult-film industry, she believed the answer wasn’t banning porn; it was better porn.
by
Margaret Talbot
via
The New Yorker
on
March 18, 2024
The City in Its Grip: On Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write”
Romano’s book is a vital, comprehensive piece of media scholarship about one of the most influential outlets of the last century. It’s also fun as hell to read.
by
T. M. Brown
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 15, 2024
The Institute for Illegal Images
Meditating on blotter not just as art, or as a historical artifact, but as a kind of media, even a “meta medium.”
by
Erik Davis
via
The Paris Review
on
March 4, 2024
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