Desire and Fate

Commodify Your Social Justice! In 1997, the social critic Thomas Frank published an essay called “Why Johnny Can’t Dissent.” In it, he argued that over the course of four decades, the authentically countercultural ideas of the so-called ‘Beat Generation’ of the 1950s - of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - that was “hostile to any law…