A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining. thepointmag.com https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3ml7a2nndp22cChicago event: “The Good of Academic Research,” hosted by the UChicago Society of Fellows on May 15th. With talks by @chadwellmon.bsky.social, Susan Buck-Morss, Pascal Brixel, Anton Ford, and others. Co-organized by Point contributing editor Ben Jeffery. Details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weissbourd-conference-2026-the-good-of-academic-research-tickets-198756293925506 May 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7a2nndp22chttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3ml4i4x2pv22uCrucial reading on what progressive education is for in 2026, from our most recent issue’s forum on the left and the good life: [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4i4x2pv22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3ml4hjzcwn22gNew online, Barry Schwabsky on what makes “The Leucothea Dialogues” Cesare Pavese’s masterpiece: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/in-the-reckless-hour/05 May 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4hjzcwn22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mkngdxflo62f“The universal depends on particularities of identity or nationality: it requires them in order to transcend them. When those particularities are withdrawn, the larger categories waver.” Amit Chaudhuri on the tradition of art without markers: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-work-without-markers/29 Apr 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkngdxflo62fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mkn4atxirc2j“To look at an Andric photograph does not involve seeing an object, but refocusing on what we know and on whatever is unaddressed by the inherited, institutional ways of recognizing a ‘Western,’ ‘non-Western,’ ‘modern’ or ‘ancient’ object.” https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-work-without-markers/29 Apr 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn4atxirc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mkknmfuhop2aNew online, Amit Chaudhuri on the art of Ljubodrag Andric and the tradition of which it’s a part—the “work without markers”: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-work-without-markers/28 Apr 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkknmfuhop2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mkbiux2goc22In Picasso’s works on paper, writes Zachary Ginsberg, “he performs the almost impossible task, at once earnest and provocative, of transporting viewers into the mind of a monster, preserving his baseness and allowing us to empathize with him.” https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-mind-of-a-minotaur/24 Apr 2026 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbiux2goc22https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mkaox7hqfs27New online, Zachary Ginsberg on the confessional genius of Picasso’s works on paper: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-mind-of-a-minotaur/24 Apr 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkaox7hqfs27https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mk66uag45p2hThe suburbs have long been a symbol of an America devoid of politics. But in the campaign to draw up a new map for Virginia’s congressional districts, the suburbs roiled with civic fervor, Lewis Page writes: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/emergency-measures/23 Apr 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk66uag45p2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mk63n7slrs2tNew on Forms of Life, Lewis Page on canvassing for Virginia’s congressional redistricting in the fired-up suburbs: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/emergency-measures/23 Apr 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk63n7slrs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mk3uyifs6k2eNew online, Scott Spillman on an ironic new account of the intellectual origins of American slavery: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/ideas-of-slavery-john-samuel-harpham/22 Apr 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3uyifs6k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mjmolq4rlc25New online, @kayagenc.bsky.social on Leylâ Erbil’s experimental novel “What Remains,” and his path toward understanding her challenge to Turkish literature and politics: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/a-history-of-erasures/16 Apr 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmolq4rlc25https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mjmlacwp2y2zIn collaging her life with the life of her country, Leylâ Erbil had fermented a new strain of autofiction, using her life to write something thoroughly historical and political. https://thepointmag.com/criticism/a-history-of-erasures/16 Apr 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmlacwp2y2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mjhr6rxbn22vIncluding @jrichards.bsky.social’s translation of Marosia Castaldi, originally published in issue 33! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhr6rxbn22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mhgvirgzgc2xNew on Forms of Life, Zeead Yaghi on sectarianism at its breaking point in Lebanon, and Israel’s strategy of stoking it: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/breaking-point-beirut/19 Mar 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgvirgzgc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mhb2o45p6c26New on Forms of Life, a dispatch from DeVan Ard on the first week of conflict in Beirut: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/one-week-in-beirut/17 Mar 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhb2o45p6c26https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mgfty4flis2xIn his recent book on the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch, Mark Hopwood gives us “a Murdoch who is no longer just a defective analytic philosopher, but a thinker in a tradition of her own,” writes Parker Henry: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/moral-mysteries/06 Mar 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfty4flis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mfcihqbv4c2sNew online, a web supplement to our issue 36 forum on the left and the good life: Ege Yumuşak on making space for political engagement in everyday life. https://thepointmag.com/politics/where-does-politics-take-place/20 Feb 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcihqbv4c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mf5r5dxkp22tApplications are open for our fully funded Summer Workshops on the philosophy and practice of public thinking—an incredible opportunity for college students interested in writing and engaging the public. Learn More: www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com/workshop https://www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com/workshop18 Feb 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5r5dxkp22t