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What Is Substack For?

A new way to engage with The Point

Dec 5, 2024 • Jon Baskin

Misplaced optimism in the age of AI

May 2 • Anastasia Berg

Shooting and Crying

Living rightly with Jia Tolentino

Apr 28 • Anastasia Berg

Do Liberals Want a Beautiful World?

A conversation with Jon Baskin, Becca Rothfeld, Cass Sunstein and James Wood

Apr 21 • The Point and Harvard Public Culture Project

Paul North in the Hot Seat

Outtakes from our issue 36 dialogue

Mar 20 • The Point and Anastasia Berg

Previews

Serpents in the Garden

From the issue 36 forum on the left and the good life

Mar 12 • Marco Roth

Doomers in Love

A preview from issue 36

Feb 23 • The Point and Mana Afsari

A Preview of Issue 36

The annotated TOC for our forthcoming issue

Jan 27 • The Point

Explicit Content

A review from issue 35

Aug 22, 2025 • Alex Rollins Berg

Dialogues

Do Liberals Want a Beautiful World?

A conversation with Jon Baskin, Becca Rothfeld, Cass Sunstein and James Wood

Apr 21 • The Point and Harvard Public Culture Project

Is Humanistic Knowledge Useless?

And so what if it is?

Nov 5, 2025 • Jon Baskin and Michael Lipkin

Will We Miss the Ivory Towers When They’re Gone?

A conversation on graduate education and the humanities

Oct 21, 2025 • becca rothfeld and Ben Jeffery

Can the Humanities Be Saved?

A conversation with Jennifer Frey and Anastasia Berg

Oct 15, 2025 • The Point and Interintellect

Substack-only

Misplaced optimism in the age of AI

May 2 • Anastasia Berg

Shooting and Crying

Living rightly with Jia Tolentino

Apr 28 • Anastasia Berg

Paul North in the Hot Seat

Outtakes from our issue 36 dialogue

Mar 20 • The Point and Anastasia Berg

From Wallace Bros to Bernie Bros and Back Again

The Sincerity Files #3

Feb 14 • Jon Baskin