Technology was the wonder of our age. It seemed to promise us power, and we took this power for our own. What kind of power was it? We didn’t ask. The post Within the Pretense of No Pretense appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

What was really at stake in this election was something closer to the existential: whether this utopian experiment would live on, or needed to be put aside. The post Another World appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

War has settled into my imagination and doesn’t want to leave. Maybe it has always been there. The post Darkness over Donbas appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

The battles of late medieval times have had a long, poisonous afterlife in this part of the world, and there is something ominous about Vijayanagara’s desolate beauty. The post Ruins upon Ruins appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

Is a classical worldview premised on social balance compatible with the modern politics of working-class emancipation? The post No Masters appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

The earthquakes on February 6th that killed more than 55,000 people in Turkey and Syria and resulted in $105 billion in damage were among the […] The post Fate’s Plan appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

Last October, the Food and Drug Administration announced a shortage of the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication Adderall, leaving millions who are prescribed the drug scrambling to […] The post Who Deserves Amphetamines? appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more

If hyperpolitics offers some tentative clues for analyzing the post-2008 epoch in the West, the concept can only be fully grasped as part of a broader chronology of the political forms—from mass politics to post-politics—that ran across the twentieth and 21st centuries. The post Everything Is Hyperpolitical appeared first on The Point Magazine ..read more