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Examined Life
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August 1, 2016
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My deepest embarrassment about the whole subway-coffeeshop fantasy stems from the idea that I ever wanted my reading to fulfill someone else’s desire.
Reasonable Education
Without ever rejecting public schooling, we have found ourselves in a natural experiment in Lockean and Rousseauian aims.
Family Feuds
The pandemic has intensified family relations, and correspondingly intensified my own need to play competitive games.
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.