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August 1, 2016
Is Philosophy Self-Help?
In the past decade or so, there’s been a flowering of philosophical self-help—books authored by academics but intended to instruct us all.
Behind the Hood
I went running in a hoodie recently and a car swerved too close for comfort.
The Paradox of Apology
There is a minor grievance I have been nursing for some time now, against a friend who uninvited me from a party he threw.
Little-known fact: Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize-winning Irish novelist, poet and playwright, was also a prolific standardized-test writer. What follows is a selection of SAT questions from his archive.
If you liked this essay, you’ll love reading The Point in print.