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Read MoreAs 2019 draws to a close, we’re proud to present our top-ten most-read print essays of the year, listed below in reverse order. Although their […]
Read MoreWhat do you think is the best part of being a kid?
Read MoreThis fall and winter we invited people who work with the land—farmers, ranchers, foresters, ecologists and others—to tell us what they think the earth is […]
Read MoreAfter the midterms, we had our writers and editors reflect on what the election meant to them.
Read MoreFranz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” begins with a Traveler, described as a “great Western explorer,” learning about a “peculiar apparatus” of justice.
Read MoreThis summer, in partnership with Chicago Books to Women in Prison, we distributed a short survey to incarcerated women across the country, inviting them to tell us about their experience of living in prison.
Read MoreIntellectual Ex-Radicals and World Reaction: The Crisis of the Disillusioned Fellow-Travelers of Bolshevism Is Not the Same as a “Crisis of Marxism” (Trotsky 1939) The Intellectual: […]
Read MoreBy some indicators we are entering a new Dark Age: anti-intellectual fervor is raging, suspicion of experts is at an all-time high and appeals to reason are dismissed as passé.
Read MoreWe invited priests and pastors from across the country to participate in a short survey about the joys, challenges and day-to-day work of leading a church in contemporary America.
Read MoreIf you happened to log onto Facebook around Thanksgiving, you might have seen these words, blinking in white against an emergency-red background: “URGENT: If you’re not freaking out right now about net neutrality you’re not paying attention.”
Read MoreFinally, in Samuel Beckett, we have our poet-laureate of climate change.
Read MoreThe following are actual titles of papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals.
Read MoreWhat to do on Saturday night is a philosophical problem. Notwithstanding the scheduling idiosyncrasies created by our “flexible” economy, it remains the time of week we are least able to avoid asking ourselves: What do we want?
Read MoreImmigration was a central issue of the 2016 presidential campaign, though until his first week in office it was unclear whether Trump really intended to build […]
Read MoreAlexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America arrives at an auspicious time. The French sociologist came initially to America to prepare a report on criminal justice, but he ultimately widened his purview to encompass the whole of American society.
Read MoreIt became a commonplace last summer for political commentators to exclaim that they did not know some portion of the American electorate, hence that they did not know some portion of their own country, America.
Read MoreWe agree that now is the time for resisting dogmatism and exploring uncomfortable stances, not at the expense of our convictions but on their behalf. This is, in fact, something we have been trying to do at The Point since its inception.
Read MoreOur generation wants more art and less politics. We often talk about the two Ps: politics and poetry. Which one will you write as a capital, which one as a small letter? For us, the capital letter is poetry. It doesn’t mean we are against politics because that’s simply impossible—even the air we breathe is political. But what we want to focus on is the poetic nature of a given work of art.
Read MoreIn May of this year, more than 450 American novelists, poets and literary critics signed an “Open Letter to the American People” opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy for […]
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