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As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier. The post No Country for Tech Bros appeared first on The Point Magazine.

I started seeing “MY HUSBAND IS GAY!” videos in the early 2020s when my TikTok algorithm, with its typical eerie prescience, decided to remind me that I was in a lavender marriage. The post My Lavender Marriage appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Our contention is that, if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts, and thus initiating a period in our own society of which it may someday be possible to say that “nothing happened.” The post On Radical Preservation appeared first on The Point Magazine.

My daughter joined her school’s newly formed girls’ wrestling team in the seventh grade. Her first tournament was at a high school in Oak Harbor, […] The post Girls Wrestling appeared first on The Point Magazine.

The last pre-COVID exhibition at the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art in downtown New York was titled Paint-It-Yourself. The exhibit, showing new work by Merlin […] The post After the Post-Avant-Garde appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Years ago, I had an intense relationship with a man who was brilliant and deeply interesting to talk to. I didn’t doubt he felt similarly […] The post Student of Desire appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Roughly once a week, in August and early September of 2011, I sat in a semicircle in Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park with eighty to a […] The post We Were the 99 Percent appeared first on The Point Magazine.

On November 13, 2024, about fifty people gathered on a corner in West Orange, New Jersey, a quiet suburb an hour’s drive from Manhattan. The […] The post Goodbye, West Orange appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Q. Great—I’d love to help. Do you have a particular story in mind? Q. Fascinating premise—there’s a long tradition of stories about artificial intelligence becoming […] The post The Fifth Syllable appeared first on The Point Magazine.

These scenes have been excerpted from the first act of the play Life Worth Living. Modeled after a trauerspiel, or “mourning play,” it was first performed […] The post Advanced Fiction appeared first on The Point Magazine.

This past January, I traveled to a small town in Wisconsin’s Driftless region, the southwest corner of the state the glaciers missed, to join a […] The post A Vital Education appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Hope being an exotic commodity these days, I try to take it wherever I can get it. One of the few recent times I’ve felt […] The post Art Auctions appeared first on The Point Magazine.

The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection. The post The Stretch of a Soul appeared first on The Point Magazine.

This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago. The post Searching for the Unexpected appeared first on The Point Magazine.

The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court. The post Wiseman’s Children appeared first on The Point Magazine.

In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025). The post Panahi’s Laboratory appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Harold Bloom wrote and edited so many books that it’s hard to imagine how he found the time between them to write letters. The post The Critic’s Loves appeared first on The Point Magazine.

In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” The post Superhuman Fantasies appeared first on The Point Magazine.

I’ve passed enough “As Seen on TikTok” tables at otherwise cozily untrendy bookstores that I can no longer picture a solvent mass publishing industry without this app. The post Common Readers appeared first on The Point Magazine.

“The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.” Every New Leftist in the late 1960s was familiar with that axiom, attributed to Fidel Castro, and most took it to heart. The post The Way the Wind Blows appeared first on The Point Magazine.