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Arts, culture, and politics with Matthew Schmitz and Julia Yost..

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$10/moDecadentsIf Matthew doesn’t make money on this, his wife will kill him.

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Counterculture's paid members rank in Recommended cohort
Rank	Creator and why included	Paid members	Gap vs Counterculture	Freshness
#1	You're Wrong AboutPodcastsContent relevance + business context	13,759	Not comparable	Aug 10, 2026
#2	Know Your EnemyPodcastsContent relevance + business context	9,712	Not comparable	Aug 10, 2026
#3	Tech Won't Save UsPodcastsContent relevance + business context	1,218	Not comparable	Jul 31, 2026
#4	Where There's WokeNewsContent relevance + business context	624	Not comparable	Jul 14, 2026Stale
Not ranked	CountercultureProfileNewsPaid members position in Recommended cohort	Not measured	Reference	Aug 4, 2026Stale

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Affirmative Action and DEI are usually thought to benefit racial minorities. But what happens when these measures actually benefit a numerical majority? Matthew and Julia talk to Helen Andrews about how America’s changing racial demographics have altered the logic of its racial bargain...

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CountercultureForget Wokeness: ‘The Odyssey’ Has More Basic ProblemsArticleJuly 20$5 tier & up 5 2 CountercultureDonald Trump rode a vibe shift back to the White House in 2025. Eighteen months later, the vibe has shifted back again. Matthew and Julia discuss why, and ask whether America is still moving right. Plus: A very important announcement...ArticleJuly 1$5 tier & up 4 5 Counterculture“Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg’s film about the leaking of UFO files, is a hit. The Trump administration’s release of actual UFO files is not. Meanwhile, a Catholic exorcist has been fired for saying that UFOs are demonic. Matthew and Julia argue that rising interest in flying saucers says a great deal about the direction of our society. They also ask and answer the question of the moment: Are aliens Catholic?...ArticleJune 15$5 tier & up 8 1 Counterculture“Backrooms” and “Obsession,” the indie sensations that beat out Star Wars at the box office this weekend, reflect a distinctly Zoomer worldview, one marked by despair about relationships and the loss of ’90s-era confidence. Matthew and Julia explore the ruined temples of American commerce and announce the rise of heteropessimist horror...ArticleJune 1$5 tier & up 6 6 CountercultureCaro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear, about a tradwife influencer who wakes up one day to find herself trapped on a nineteenth-century homestead, is topping the fiction bestseller charts. Liberals applaud the novel’s social critique, but Matthew and Julia are less impressed. Does the tradwife really represent the benighted past, as Burke thinks? Or is she the wave of the future?...ImageMay 22$5 tier & up 10 5 CountercultureYoung adults are driving a surge in Catholic conversions. Meanwhile, some on the right are looking east, to Islam. Matthew and Julia talk about the two hottest trends in religious conversion, and the many motives converts have—from spiritual hunger to gender politics to civilizational survival...ArticleMay 1$5 tier & up 6 2 CountercultureDemocrats are eager to nominate a straight white man for president—which may explain why Gavin Newsom is leaning into “toxic” masculinity. Julia and Matthew discuss the California governor’s strange but telling decision to compare himself to Patrick Bateman, the serial-killer protagonist of American Psycho...ArticleApril 13$5 tier & up 5 4 CountercultureWas it Richard Dawkins? Rebecca Watson? Fedora Guy? Or maybe Tom Holland? Matthew and Julia discuss why the New Atheism died and will never be resurrected...ArticleApril 1$5 tier & up 6 2 View 0 commentsLouise Perry is one of the most perceptive observers of the trends that are transforming the West. Matthew and Julia talk to her about the migration boom, the fertility bust, and the quiet resurgence of religion—in society and her own life...ArticleMarch 16$5 tier & up 0 0 CountercultureIf Donald Trump is a dangerous and unpopular extremist, why hasn’t the Democratic Party’s opposition to him yielded a sustainable majority? Matthew and Julia talk to Alicia Nieves, a veteran of pro-immigrant activism and Democratic Party politics. Nieves argues that the party has lost touch with its working-class identity and that if present trends hold, it will cease to be competitive at the federal level...ImageMarch 2$5 tier & up 9 1 View 0 commentsThe release of the Epstein files has been met by an outpouring of paranoid speculation—and a growing chorus of expressing justified skepticism. Matthew and Julia welcome the newcomers to the party and rebuke the holdouts. ...ImageFebruary 18$5 tier & up 0 0

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