The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 32.

As 2023 comes to a close, we’re proud to present our most-read web pieces of the year, listed below in reverse order. If you enjoy…

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On a Saturday morning this winter, while my wife trained for a half-marathon, I was tasked with taking our eighteen-month-old daughter to the neighborhood synagogue…

In 1956, announcing her opposition to Oxford’s decision to award Harry Truman an honorary degree, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe noted that “protests by people who…

The critical tide is turning, once again. The professional critics—and not just the old, curmudgeonly ones—are fed up with moralizing, and they are willing to…

This is the second installment of “Preserving Gaza,” a series of interviews with Palestinian scholars and writers about particular aspects of Gaza’s history, heritage and…

This is the first installment of “Preserving Gaza,” a series of interviews with Palestinian writers and scholars about particular aspects of Gaza’s history, heritage and…

Since 1999, Edwin Frank and a handful of colleagues have published more than five hundred titles noteworthy for their excellence, latitude and cosmopolitanism.

This essay is a preview of our forthcoming print issue, which features the symposium “What is college for?”

INTRODUCTION The subtitle of Martin Hägglund’s new book, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, indicates its ambition. In the first half of This Life,…

This winter we surveyed hundreds of people—of all genders—about what they think men are for.

What does it mean to face the question of beauty every day, not just personally but professionally? This spring we surveyed models, cosmetic physicians, influencers…

What is it like to work in tech every day? This winter we surveyed people who work in tech about their jobs, common misconceptions about…

In light of Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race over widespread concerns about his age and mental fitness, The Point has assembled…

Intellectual 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:…

The following is a collection of statements published in the New York Times about Robert S. Mueller, from 2001 to today.

alt right: i) right-wing racists who use leftist rhetoric. ii) establishment.

Classics, the: force of oppression. Know enough to despise ~: “Plato was an authoritarian.” “Aristotle condoned slavery.”

What was really at stake in this election was something closer to the existential: whether this utopian experiment would live on, or needed to be…

The battles of late medieval times have had a long, poisonous afterlife in this part of the world, and there is something ominous about Vijayanagara’s…

War has settled into my imagination and doesn’t want to leave. Maybe it has always been there.

A writer is a creature of solitude: Has there ever been a bigger lie?

I was going to keep my mouth shut, but given all the commotion, what else can I do? Let someone else spill the tea, making me…

I am not seeking to establish any kind of order—I know full well there isn’t any.

By 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…

Finally, in Samuel Beckett, we have our poet-laureate of climate change.

Alexis 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,…

This is the first column in the fourth round of Reading Room, a collective column on reading and life. In each round, the contributors respond…

This is the third column in the third round of Reading Room, a collective column on reading and life. In each round, the contributors respond to a prompt…

This is the second column in the third round of Reading Room, a collective column on reading and life. In each round, the contributors respond to…

Q: My girlfriend and I have always had what I’ve considered a healthy (albeit “plain”) sexual dynamic—we fuck regularly, make each other come in various…

Is “good advice” about love just kind of inherently unromantic in its avoidance of pain?

I have nothing approaching an answer to your question. I’ve chosen it because it expresses what I consider the foremost problem in my own life.