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August 1, 2016
Getting Good
On a dark, gray day in October 2025, the first dozen attendees of the Effective Altruism Global conference make their way to the Sheraton Hotel…
My Lavender Marriage
I started seeing “MY HUSBAND IS GAY!” videos in the early 2020s when my TikTok algorithm, with its typical eerie prescience, decided to remind me…
On Radical Preservation
Our contention is that, if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of…
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.