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What Happened to Effective Altruism?

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For Leah Libresco Sargeant, feminism should treat “women as women,” rather than demanding them imitate men

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Connecting the Dots

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The ant you can save

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Seamus Heaney rarely struck a note of inspired weirdness. Then again, he was never as boring as some canonical poets

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“How dumb are we?” asked an episode of Oprah in 1988. Part of the show’s offering: a debate between Gerald Graff and Allan Bloom

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What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson

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Not only nature, but human nature, is being redefined by an anti-limit culture. Is this progress?

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Upon publication, The Picture of Dorian Gray was condemned as “vulgar” and “poisonous.” It’s now a modern classic

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Are we doomed? Review of books on depopulation and extinction

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Wittgenstein’s self-recriminations: He was a disloyal Jew, a brutal teacher, a bad soldier, an occasional masturbator

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"There’s a vastness in Woolf, an inexhaustibility and an eagerness, that in turn sparks procreativity in others"

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Notes on American Fascism

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"Globalization, among other things, is about people from anywhere reading about people from nowhere"

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For too long, Shakespeare has been regarded as a kind of minor deity. He was in fact a laboring writer

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Mahmood Mamdani is ready to talk politics, culture wars, and the academy. But not about his son, Zohran

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John Searle was a leading light of American philosophy. He was also one of the sharpest analysts of campus revolts

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Why do paranormal phenomena like precognition, telekinesis, and clairvoyance keep popping up in the most rational-seeming places?

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Why Doesn't Anyone Trust the Media?

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The late 1980s to the early 2010s, the post-theory and pre-wokeness period, was a golden age for the humanities

thepointmag.substack.com·27w·Substack

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