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Issue 33

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 33.

 

Issue 32

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

 

Top Articles of 2023

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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Letter

 

On Students

As the campus protests against the war in Gaza spread across the country this past spring, affecting hundreds of colleges and resulting in the arrest…

 

On the Crisis of Men

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…

 

Note on Humility and Power

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…

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Dialogue

 

Israel Stories

Matti Friedman is a freelance journalist and the author of Pumpkinflowers and Who by Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen. Based in…

 

The City Beneath the City

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…

 

A Form of Refuge

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…

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Remarks

 

When Meghan Married Harry

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

 

Limited Time

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,…

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Survey

 

Manhood

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

 

The Beauty Industry

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…

 

Working in Tech

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…

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Further Materials

 

Notes Toward a Preface About School Statements

Introduction These notes are not a blueprint for how to write a school statement, or a script for how teachers should tackle hot-button topics. In…

 

Age-Old Wisdom

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…

 

Intellectuals in Crisis

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:…

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Dictionary

 

The Crisis of Language Project

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

 

The (Updated) Dictionary of Received Ideas

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

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Correspondence

 

Another World

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…

 

Ruins upon Ruins

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…

 

Darkness over Donbas

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

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Literature

 

The Screen

The screen is very tall. It can’t be passed over or under or around or beside, has no gaps or passageways.

 

Camas, Washington

Erin was the reason me and my buddy Nick stopped calling each other pussy.

 

Every Weirdo in the World Is on My Wavelength

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

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Slush Pile

 

The Life of the Mind

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…

 

Endgame

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

 

Democracy in America

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,…

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Reading Room

 

Back to Real Life

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…

 

Restless Minds

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…

 

Guilt Lit

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…

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Advice

 

Inappropriate Desires

“I think I’m just sexually attracted to women who are conventionally hot, and that tends to mean ‘not 55.’ But it somehow feels, I dunno,…

 

Performance Issues

You’re right: much of sex does feel like theater. But what kind of theater is it?

 

Is Sex Fun?

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…

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