Earn Your Judginess (On Reading Ginsberg’s “Howl”)

Ewwww, Ginsberg? Kerouac? They were so blasé in their politics, if you can even say they had any. Counterculture just because. Horny, spoiled white bros playing at radical leftism. Hard pass. I’d carried around that knee-jerk reaction to the Beats for over a decade. I’d heard classmates I couldn’t (wouldn’t) take seriously rave about them, … More Earn Your Judginess (On Reading Ginsberg’s “Howl”)