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With Russia's full-scale invasion, contextualizing Ukraine’s Soviet past became more complicated than ever. An essay I wrote for @thepointmag.bsky.social looks at what its meant for the museum holding Ukraine's largest collection of Soviet socialist realist art. thepointmag.com/corresponden...
Tragic Heritage | The Point Magazine
The questions surrounding this small museum can be extended to the country at large: What value does Soviet heritage have in Ukraine now?
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February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
With Russia's full-scale invasion, contextualizing Ukraine’s Soviet past became more complicated than ever. An essay I wrote for @thepointmag.bsky.social looks at what its meant for the museum holding Ukraine's largest collection of Soviet socialist realist art. thepointmag.com/corresponden...
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wonderful piece on the life of a smoker — and the process of quitting — by @johnphipps.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
February 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
wonderful piece on the life of a smoker — and the process of quitting — by @johnphipps.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer…students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever”
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February 2, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer…students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever”
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Enjoying Becca Rothfeld's skewering of "Abundance" and Cass Sunstein's latest
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February 1, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Enjoying Becca Rothfeld's skewering of "Abundance" and Cass Sunstein's latest
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I really love that Annie’s work doesn’t simply defend the liberal arts, it actively demonstrates how taking up its texts & traditions can provide invaluable insight into contemporary issues. English classes should be invitations to appreciate, enjoy, & contribute to living traditions & communities.
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I really love that Annie’s work doesn’t simply defend the liberal arts, it actively demonstrates how taking up its texts & traditions can provide invaluable insight into contemporary issues. English classes should be invitations to appreciate, enjoy, & contribute to living traditions & communities.
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A poignant, poetic take on the waning Canadian migrant dream, and the very hot, present, (im)migrant pivot across the globe. Vikrant Dadawala is clear-eyed and nuanced about his grasp of the situation and where he himself stands in it:
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The Great Replacement | The Point Magazine
None of us—Camus, the peddlers of multicultural ephemera, the internet Nazis or me—is immune to the self-forgetting that follows the transformation of genuine cultural memory into kitsch.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
A poignant, poetic take on the waning Canadian migrant dream, and the very hot, present, (im)migrant pivot across the globe. Vikrant Dadawala is clear-eyed and nuanced about his grasp of the situation and where he himself stands in it:
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"Teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care...and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." - @annieabrams.bsky.social, in a crucial essay on the struggle for liberal education.
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Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
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February 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care...and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." - @annieabrams.bsky.social, in a crucial essay on the struggle for liberal education.
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"Forms of labor that conserve, fix, make and care for others once had a place in the mythos of America, not to mention on the mantle of the Old Left."
Extraordinary essay about what the last year has been like in DC by Noelle Bodick in @thepointmag.bsky.social
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Extraordinary essay about what the last year has been like in DC by Noelle Bodick in @thepointmag.bsky.social
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Right and Left | The Point Magazine
Another fed worker tells me he spends his days pacing the marble corridors of his office like an absolute madman. The Lana del Rey lyric “I don’t wanna do this anymore” plays on loops in his head in L...
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February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
"Forms of labor that conserve, fix, make and care for others once had a place in the mythos of America, not to mention on the mantle of the Old Left."
Extraordinary essay about what the last year has been like in DC by Noelle Bodick in @thepointmag.bsky.social
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Extraordinary essay about what the last year has been like in DC by Noelle Bodick in @thepointmag.bsky.social
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“calling our current public-education policy ‘progressive’ is, read most generously, imprecise”
great essay about what progressive education ought to aim for—one that hopefully clarifies things not only for the Tates of the world, but also for those of us who aim to do this kind of work ourselves.
great essay about what progressive education ought to aim for—one that hopefully clarifies things not only for the Tates of the world, but also for those of us who aim to do this kind of work ourselves.
February 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
“calling our current public-education policy ‘progressive’ is, read most generously, imprecise”
great essay about what progressive education ought to aim for—one that hopefully clarifies things not only for the Tates of the world, but also for those of us who aim to do this kind of work ourselves.
great essay about what progressive education ought to aim for—one that hopefully clarifies things not only for the Tates of the world, but also for those of us who aim to do this kind of work ourselves.
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For @thepointmag.bsky.social I wrote one of the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. Please give it a read if you’re someone who cares about education. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine
A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...
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February 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
For @thepointmag.bsky.social I wrote one of the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. Please give it a read if you’re someone who cares about education. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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I wrote about Plato, Huxley, and Dewey— thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
Before assigning Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World to high school students, I like to read Plato’s allegory of the cave with them in […]
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February 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I wrote about Plato, Huxley, and Dewey— thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Issue 36—featuring a forum on the left and the good life and essays on D.C. after DOGE, Wes Anderson, Soviet Ukrainian art under threat, and much more—is now online! Read it here:
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February 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Issue 36—featuring a forum on the left and the good life and essays on D.C. after DOGE, Wes Anderson, Soviet Ukrainian art under threat, and much more—is now online! Read it here:
thepointmag.com/issue/issue-36/
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Issue 36: The left and the good life | Coming soon.
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Issue 36: The left and the good life | Coming soon.
“The good life my upbringing had laid out for me was something like this: hustle your way into a T-20 for business or computer science, work up to a middle-management position in Jersey, die. Raritan showed there was a path out.”
Strains, Tensions, Exaltations | The Point Magazine
Truth be told, when I heard that Raritan was shuttering, I was surprised it was still around at all.
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January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
“The good life my upbringing had laid out for me was something like this: hustle your way into a T-20 for business or computer science, work up to a middle-management position in Jersey, die. Raritan showed there was a path out.”
A new installment of @bdmcclay.bsky.social’s column on speculative fiction, on the true aliens among us and Craig Strete’s talent for depicting them:
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Through Animal Eyes | The Point Magazine
There are aliens among us. Don’t panic. They’ve been here a long time. You probably live with a few.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:45 PM
A new installment of @bdmcclay.bsky.social’s column on speculative fiction, on the true aliens among us and Craig Strete’s talent for depicting them:
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I was delighted to be part of this forum in The Point, writing about education and great books not only as part of the good life that those of us on the left are trying to make possible for everyone but as an invaluable way to help us become free enough to live that life.
Issue 36—which features a forum on the left and the good life—is coming soon. Check out the annotated table of contents for an extended preview:
Issue 36 | The Point Magazine
The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 36.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I was delighted to be part of this forum in The Point, writing about education and great books not only as part of the good life that those of us on the left are trying to make possible for everyone but as an invaluable way to help us become free enough to live that life.
Issue 36—which features a forum on the left and the good life—is coming soon. Check out the annotated table of contents for an extended preview:
Issue 36 | The Point Magazine
The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 36.
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January 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Issue 36—which features a forum on the left and the good life—is coming soon. Check out the annotated table of contents for an extended preview:
New online, Sheena Meng memorializes “Raritan,” and the intellectual and aesthetic experience it initiated her into:
Strains, Tensions, Exaltations | The Point Magazine
Truth be told, when I heard that Raritan was shuttering, I was surprised it was still around at all.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
New online, Sheena Meng memorializes “Raritan,” and the intellectual and aesthetic experience it initiated her into:
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"Human beings transform only when we refuse to cordon ourselves off from each other behind a vulgar individualism." thepointmag.com/politics/eli...
Elite Capture | The Point Magazine
How can studying, thinking, reading and writing change the world?
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December 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Human beings transform only when we refuse to cordon ourselves off from each other behind a vulgar individualism." thepointmag.com/politics/eli...
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Over at The Point, I went long and deep on Art Bell, proto-podcaster, wizard of the American Weird. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Into the American Night | The Point Magazine
The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I slunk back to my Indiana hometown and got a job at one of the […]
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December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Over at The Point, I went long and deep on Art Bell, proto-podcaster, wizard of the American Weird. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
First published in 1971, the animating question of “Divine Right’s Trip” still feels like an urgent one: In an increasingly networked world, what would it mean to return home, and to forge a literature that was rooted in place?
Natural Systems | The Point Magazine
In retrospect, the novel reads as a hinge between two emerging visions of human connection: one drifting toward abstract, digital networks, and the other toward engagement with tangible, place-based c...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
First published in 1971, the animating question of “Divine Right’s Trip” still feels like an urgent one: In an increasingly networked world, what would it mean to return home, and to forge a literature that was rooted in place?
New online, Tim Leonido on Gurney Norman’s reissued novel of 1960s counterculture, and the alternative it posed to an emerging vision of digital, networked connection:
Natural Systems | The Point Magazine
In retrospect, the novel reads as a hinge between two emerging visions of human connection: one drifting toward abstract, digital networks, and the other toward engagement with tangible, place-based c...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New online, Tim Leonido on Gurney Norman’s reissued novel of 1960s counterculture, and the alternative it posed to an emerging vision of digital, networked connection:
On today’s new episode of Selected Novels—the last of the season!—Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to Austyn Wohlers about Clarice Lispector’s “Near to the Wild Heart”:
Selected Novels | Austyn Wohlers on Clarice Lispector
On this episode of Selected Novels (the last of the season!), Jess and Zach talk to Austyn Wohlers about Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On today’s new episode of Selected Novels—the last of the season!—Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to Austyn Wohlers about Clarice Lispector’s “Near to the Wild Heart”:
New online, Adam Fleming Petty on why Art Bell might help us understand our experience of podcasting today:
Into the American Night | The Point Magazine
The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I slunk back to my Indiana hometown and got a job at one of the […]
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December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New online, Adam Fleming Petty on why Art Bell might help us understand our experience of podcasting today:
New online, Sarah Hammerschlag on Levinas, Israel, and the risks of forging a Jewish identity out of suffering:
Signs of Election | The Point Magazine
It is not surprising to me that in certain ways I have felt more Jewish in the two years since October 7th, while often also ashamed and further at odds with most American Jews, particularly those veh...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New online, Sarah Hammerschlag on Levinas, Israel, and the risks of forging a Jewish identity out of suffering: