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August 1, 2016
An Enlightened Age
Among American Kant scholars, word on the street was that a drag queen would perform at Kant’s tricentennial birthday celebration.
An Immeasurable Field
Today marks the three hundredth anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth. In his honor, we’ve invited some of Kant’s best living readers to write about their…
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.
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.