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/3mvn7wurkas2qNew online, Jonathan Kay on “Backrooms” and its fans’ hunger for the sublime: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/after-the-sublime/16 Sep 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvn7wurkas2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mv67huz4gs27New online, @scribnerumcp.bsky.social on recovering the internal goods of academia in the wake of the Arday affair: https://thepointmag.com/politics/internal-goods/10 Sep 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv67huz4gs27https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mv3tsmfe3s2uNew online, Sam Venis reports on the fall of the Network School in Malaysia, and the dreams of the techno-capitalist frontier: https://thepointmag.com/politics/no-country-for-tech-bros/09 Sep 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3tsmfe3s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3muzmsebm3k24New on our Substack, a conversation with Greg Jackson about his story from the new issue, and the challenges of writing fiction about AI: https://thepointmag.substack.com/p/artificial-testimony08 Sep 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzmsebm3k24https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3muf4ms55lc2gWhat distinguishes today’s microcolleges are their efforts to revitalize two distinct visions of education grounded in overlapping traditions of Progressive thought—one that emphasizes the universality of the human condition, and one that emphasizes our rootedness. https://thepointmag.com/correspondence/a-vital-education/31 Aug 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf4ms55lc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mu5ucgwy5c2s“I’m not actually friends with Ben; I’ve never spoken with him, never seen him besides on a screen,” writes Zach Marcus. “But then, forming a parasocial attachment to a stranger dying on the internet is quite a common experience for people my age.” https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/how-should-a-person-die-in-public/28 Aug 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5ucgwy5c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mu5pgohlqk26“Dying online is a horrific fate: trapped inside the bowels of the internet, condemned to slosh around as a meme or a video clip for eternity. Unlike all those other figures, however, Ben is choosing to die in public.” https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/how-should-a-person-die-in-public/28 Aug 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5pgohlqk26https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mu5i4e5kck26“Forming a parasocial attachment to a stranger dying on the internet is quite a common experience for people my age.” New on Forms of Life, Zach Marcus on watching someone choose to die in public: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/how-should-a-person-die/28 Aug 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5i4e5kck26https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mtvynaszjs2jNew online, @davidsess.bsky.social on what’s behind the supposed return of lavender marriages, and how he rationalized his own: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/my-lavender-marriage/25 Aug 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvynaszjs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mtegzrko7b24From the new issue, Franklin Tucker Eccher reports on the microcollege movement—and why Nunnian education, which endured for so long at Deep Springs, the Telluride Houses and nowhere else, has now begun to seem like such an appealing alternative: https://thepointmag.com/correspondence/a-vital-education/18 Aug 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtegzrko7b24https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mteepunvss2sJonathan Lear’s focus in “Radical Hope” on the fragility of ethical concepts in a time of cultural upheaval offers us a criterion for being able to judge how AI is reshaping our own cultural life, quite aside from its effect on electricity costs and employment. https://thepointmag.com/letter/on-radical-preservation/18 Aug 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mteepunvss2shttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mt2jsglxn22tMerit, authenticity, expertise, deliberation—all these concepts are central to our culture, and all are threatened by the notion, implicitly advanced by AI’s most enthusiastic early adopters, that all that matters about an output is whether it “works.” https://thepointmag.com/letter/on-radical-preservation/14 Aug 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2jsglxn22thttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mrsqa4eqo22hA new installment of @graziemana’s Substack-only column on celebrity and pop culture, on Taylor Swift’s wedding, Lana Del Rey, and two visions of Americana: https://thepointmag.substack.com/p/american-girls29 Jul 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsqa4eqo22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mr63u7osak2rA new Sincerity Files post for our Substack from Jon Baskin, on how we all became Bernhard bros: https://thepointmag.substack.com/p/how-we-all-became-bernhard-bros21 Jul 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr63u7osak2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mr3lkikqg22xIssue 37—featuring a literature section on dialogic literature, a letter from the editors on AI and radical preservation, essays and criticism ranging from avant-garde art to coed wrestling to microcolleges, and much more—is coming soon. Preview it here: https://thepointmag.com/general/issue-37/20 Jul 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3lkikqg22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mr3liopfas2xIssue 37: Coming soon. thepointmag.com/subscribe20 Jul 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3liopfas2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mqmn567zue2eFor Brazil, the disaster of this year’s World Cup—their worst run in 36 years—lies in something deeper than winning or losing, Clement Gelly writes: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/taking-a-7-1/14 Jul 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmn567zue2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mqmk5o3za224New on Forms of Life, Clement Gelly on Brazil in the aftermath of a World Cup disaster: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/taking-a-7-1/14 Jul 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmk5o3za224