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The Point
A Journal of Ideas
A Journal of Ideas
Every politician—FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama—they’re all conservative by nature.
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Continue readingFrom this position of extreme alienation and servility, it may be thinkable to mount a fight for a bone but not for full autonomy and emancipation.
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For over thirty years, the Düsseldorf School has been making photography safe for museums. Mostly they’ve done this by increasing the scale of their photographs while suppressing chance within their frames, as if the practice of photography were less like …
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Every thriving political movement contains diverse and often warring elements bound together by little more than strength of feeling and the lure of power, so it would be stupid to look for unblemished ideological consistency in a political party. But …
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Thanks to everyone who sent in Points this year—here were our five most popular based on page views: 1.) Point 47: What a supremely minor thing! A button that says “like.” But what other habit so minor, besides breathing, or …
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In late March of 2011, a massacre was averted—not just any ordinary massacre, mind you. For had Qaddafi and his forces managed to crush the Libyan rebellion in what was then its stronghold, Benghazi, the aftershocks would have reverberated well …
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With the rumblings and portents of world’s end and apocalyptic speculation, The Tree of Life could not have arrived at a more opportune moment. Granted, it does not dwell on the End as much as it does the Beginning, but …
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The demise of socialism as an emancipatory vision poses a problem for the Left. It is not that it lacks good ideas for social changes and public policies that would improve life for most people, but that these proposals have not been coherently organized in a way that makes for a compelling ideal...
We should begin with a confession: by most metrics, I’m a New Age nut. I have a life coach. I begin my day with an hour of yoga, then proceed to my morning journal, my meditation, my visualizations and my …
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William Buckholz, a technical writer and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure enthusiast from Ohio, has just published a book called Understand Rap. Buckholz undertakes to translate, into language accessible to “you and your grandma,” a comprehensive swath of the referential, elliptical or bizarre terminology …
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I first turned to the pickup artists after losing in love. Or, to be precise, winning—and then losing. Rachel and I had followed each other silently around our university’s campus in the way that only a university campus allows. We …
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