Issue 34 |
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April 29, 2019
The Moral Hemisphere
A strange fact about the United States of America is that its name is not very specific.
A Different Annihilation
The first novel I read by Michel Houellebecq was Elementary Particles, probably in 1999. I read it in German translation, toward the end of a year…
Absolute Values
Published this summer by Harvard University Press but largely written, presumably, during the Biden administration, Dabhoiwala’s skeptical history of Anglosphere—especially U.S.—speech libertarianism is veined throughout…
That phrase is repeated in all the stories about him, those exact words: impress Jodie Foster. He was stalking her, he was in love with her; somehow he thought that assassinating Reagan would help. But that’s not what really happened. What happened in 1981 is that John Hinckley discovered the door through which you can walk right out of the world and into eternity.
If you liked this essay, you’ll love reading The Point in print.