Counterculture

April 10, 2025

The bar where the beach boys used to play

L.A., from someone who got out.

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Counterculture: Full Design

Check out the full design here, or grab a physical issue on campus!

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Letter From the Editors

Dominant institutions of power have co-opted “culture,” fragmenting it in the process; universities are censored, while mainstream publications ignore the needs and concerns of younger generations, increasingly reflecting outdated sentiments.  We’re aware that meditating on “culture,” rather than subsistence, is … Read More

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We Belong to No One But Ourselves

Members of the Harvard Independent’s Editorial Board reflect on counterculture.

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Treatise on Believing in Yourself from Elizabeth Holmes

To diagnose someone means  they’re already sick. We need more time, I tell my investors––Kissinger and the other men. It can only happen in blood. I don’t give stories or specificities. Silicon Valley means you create the outline and let … Read More

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Nass Recommends: Guy Trebay’s Do Something

Trebay’s memoir of growing up in New York City presents a poignant picture of a time when artists could actually afford rent.

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Modern Love

“We went a year without sleeping with one another. The act of speaking was already intimate enough.”

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The Ills of Talent: A Manifesto

The talent-less of the world, unite!

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Call of Duty: VR Training with the Princeton Police

Patrol Officer Andre Lee sees a suicidal woman staring off the edge of a building with a bright desert-like landscape behind her; he hears the woman’s melancholic voice and the sound of whipping wind. I see Officer Lee standing alert … Read More

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Counter Cultures

Some lesser-known identities of a counter, however you define it, recognizing the dangers of slipping into the full absurdist guerrilla art territory of #notmakingsense.

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On Umwelt: Experience as a Shapeable Thing

What if we can find control over our experience of the world just by shifting our attention?

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Verbatim

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Overheard at Late Meal

Sleep-deprived senior with misplaced priorities: “I haven't started my thesis yet, but I've ranked every bathroom on campus by pee-ability.”

Overheard on Cannon Green

Student talking to another student of the class of 2024: “It looks like your hair has depopulated on your head since the last time I saw you.”

Overheard in Frist.

Student after a night at Terrace: “It was annoying talking to him, so I hooked up with him instead.”

Overheard in Firestone.

Girl: “Multigasm, is that a word?”

Boy: “It is now. Ohhhhh, baby.”

Overheard on the Dinky.

Passenger: “You know, you just can’t avoid meeting architects at Princeton…and there aren’t any good ones.”

Overheard Inside the U-Store.

Freshman who needs to stop saying shit like this: “I feel like I'm the golden retriever of this friendship.”

Overheard outside Teresa’s.

Nassling: “I wish guys had urologists like girls had gynecologists. I want a more specific doctor to look at my junk.”

Overheard in SLA class.

Anxious Professor:” This is good to know if you ever have a demonic encounter.”

Overheard in Coffee Club.

Nass Head Design: “I’m kind of the English GOAT if you think about it.”

Overheard on C-Floor of Firestone.

Attention Historian: "I've just learned that there's a class-action lawsuit against Film at Lincoln Center."

(spills full bottle of Diet Coke all over table)

Overheard at Shere Khan Darch.

Someone who hates acapella renditions of Imagine: “Gal Gadot is a girl chud.”

Overheard at Terrace.

Diagrammatic diva: "We made a deal that when fascism takes hold, we're going to start vaping again."

Crossword

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