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August 1, 2016
Superhuman Fantasies
In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.”
The Enemy of the Good
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien,” wrote Voltaire, usually translated to “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” and more often rendered in the…
Doomers in Love
Heterosexuality has been deemed dangerous for as long as I can remember.
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.