(Sub)Culture Features

When Holly Weaver began teaching in 2014, she started because she loved literature,and wanted to share that with students. But she quickly realized that her class, filled with kids from diverse communities and socioeconomic backgrounds, needed something completely different. “I saw very quickly some inequities within school systems,” Weaver says. …

The rise of Jordan Peterson as a conservative intellectual figure had everything to do with his rhetoric. The Canadian psychologist and professor first entered the public spotlight in 2016 by denouncing students at the University of Toronto who preferred to use gender-neutral pronouns. His 2018 bestseller, 12 Rules for Life, …

“I WANT A REFUND!,” the woman in the TikTok video shrieks at top volume, throwing a glass of water in the bartender’s face. “I didn’t like it. I sent it back three times because you don’t even know how to cook a steak. I said slightly pink, that is between …

The Biden administration’s Health and Human Services Department has recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration move cannabis from Schedule I — a drug category that includes heroin and LSD —to Schedule III,where it will be considered roughly as addictive as Tylenol with codeine. It’s a big deal: the first time …

Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson‘s anti-aging health regimen, “Project Blueprint,” has become the subject of countless media profiles for its severity. The venture capitalist takes more than a hundred supplements a day, eats only between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m., has experimented with receiving blood-plasma transfusions from his teenage son, and …

What better place than the 2023 Streamys for Dream — the masked Twitch streamer now signed to Mercury and Republic Records — to do a second face reveal? After struggling to read the teleprompter because of his white, smiley-face mask, the creator let out his wavy hair from behind the …

In 1969, the mysterious Tom Forçade insinuated himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics by taking control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of anti-establishment newspapers across the country. Wiry and manic, Forcade wore a black hat and refused to have his face photographed. Weathering government surveillance and …

“Any advice for my husband and I wanting to watch Oppenheimer but being fully afraid of the Florence Pugh scene everyone is talking about?” Last weekend, creator Jourdan K. posted a TikTok about going to see the film Oppenheimer with her husband, answering the above question from a follower. She …

“Before seed oils were invented, everybody was hot and healthy,” reads the first sentence of an Aug. 21 tweet by Carnivore Aurelius, a Twitter account with more than 300,000 followers. The tweet cites statistics claiming to link consumption of seed oils to an increase in obesity and cardiovascular disease rates, …

Somehow, amid a culture war backlash against Rachel Zegler, the actress starring in Disney‘s forthcoming live-action Snow White remake, the conversation turned to her appearance. That in itself is no surprise: both famous and unknown women are always subject to rude, unsolicited commentary about their looks. But in this case, …