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Summer 2019

Issue 19

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what's in Issue 19.


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Letter

On Left Straussianism

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Nobody shares all their private complaints with an audience, but how do we know how much to share and with whom? Certainly, in the name […]


 

Essays

Prophecy and Politics

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Powerful voices have emerged in recent years to compel Americans to confront economic suffering and poverty in their country. Among the most influential has been […]


Closer Reading

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Curio · The Point Magazine | Closer Reading I rediscovered short stories several years ago when I began working for a nonprofit called Books@Work. During […]


In Her Own Time

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Time, to the black American, has always been a burden. From 1619 to now, we have played out our drama before a reluctant time. We […]


The Dictatorship of the Present

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Thirty years ago socialism was dead and buried. This was not an illusion or a temporary hiccup, a point all the more important to emphasize […]


 

Symposium

Prophecy and Politics

By

Powerful voices have emerged in recent years to compel Americans to confront economic suffering and poverty in their country. Among the most influential has been […]


Closer Reading

By

Curio · The Point Magazine | Closer Reading I rediscovered short stories several years ago when I began working for a nonprofit called Books@Work. During […]


In Her Own Time

By

Time, to the black American, has always been a burden. From 1619 to now, we have played out our drama before a reluctant time. We […]


The Dictatorship of the Present

By

Thirty years ago socialism was dead and buried. This was not an illusion or a temporary hiccup, a point all the more important to emphasize […]


 

Remarks

Limited Time

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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, […]


 

Correspondence

Forms of Life

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On January 17, 2018, the French government announced it was canceling plans to build an airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes. For fifty years, the project […]


 

Reviews

Body Counts

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Nick McDonell has reported on the War on Terror from the very beginning. A high school student in New York when the Twin Towers fell, […]


Hart Island

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The woman told me she’d had nightmares about the island for months. She was one of the visitors gathering at a ferry slip on City […]


Of Love and Blindness

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If I’m honest, I would say that I enjoyed the week you spent in bed.