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- Ordinary Men: Elon Musk and the court biographer https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/ 2 comments
- Ordinary Men: Elon Musk and the court biographer https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/ 4 comments
- Perilous Joy: George Eliot and the marriage question https://thepointmag.com/criticism/perilous-joy/ 8 comments
- My Beautiful Friend https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/my-beautiful-friend/ 66 comments
- The Limits of Forgiveness https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-limits-of-forgiveness/ 2 comments
- Silicon or Carbon? https://thepointmag.com/politics/silicon-or-carbon/ 15 comments
- Streets Like Living Rooms: Orhan Pamuk’s Photographs of Istanbul https://thepointmag.com/criticism/streets-like-living-rooms/ 17 comments
- Anger Management https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/anger-management-agnes-callard/ 34 comments
- Unrecognizable: William Gaddis’s American Pessimism https://thepointmag.com/criticism/unrecognizable-gaddis/ 4 comments
- Meaning a Life https://thepointmag.com/criticism/meaning-a-life/ 7 comments
- Safety Meeting https://thepointmag.com/literature/safety-meeting/ 17 comments
- Is Plagiarism Wrong? https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/is-plagiarism-wrong-agnes-callard/ 59 comments
- Parenting and Panic https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/parenting-and-panic-agnes-callard/ 102 comments
- Half a Person https://thepointmag.com/2019/examined-life/half-a-person 2 comments
- Idleness https://thepointmag.com/2019/criticism/idleness 4 comments
- Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless https://thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/switching-off 27 comments
- Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist http://www.thepointmag.com/archive/love-in-the-age-of-the-pickup-artist/ 136 comments
- "The Lull | Our Age of Catastrophic Uneventfulness" - An exploration on how 'the end of history' has affected our cultural consciousness and imagination https://thepointmag.com/politics/the-lull/ 14 comments philosophy
- Against Advice https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/against-advice-agnes-callard/ 3 comments truereddit
- Hope and Shamelessness | Critics like Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben have raced to declare the "meaning" of the pandemic, but the rush underscores some of the hollowness of the pursuit https://thepointmag.com/politics/hope-and-shamelessness-zizek/ 7 comments philosophy
- Justin E.H. Smith on how coronavirus is changing the way we think about human life https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-just-beginning/ 3 comments philosophy
- An article about "status games": the tension between the innate and acquired worth, and the games played by people to deal with the dichotomy that worth should, but also shouldn't be both innate and acquired at the same time. https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/who-wants-to-play-the-status-game-agnes-callard/ 7 comments philosophy
- "Who Wants to Play the Status Game?" - an article about the tension between the innate and acquired worth, and the games played by people to deal with the dichotomy that worth should, but also shouldn't be both innate and acquired at the same time. https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/who-wants-to-play-the-status-game-agnes-callard/ 3 comments philosophy
- "Socrates undersold philosophy when he described it as a preparation for death. Philosophy done right is death."--On the value of losing a fight in philosophy and how it makes us better. https://thepointmag.com/2019/examined-life/is-philosophy-fight-club-agnes-callard 5 comments philosophy
- Philosophy Might be 'Fight Club' - Agnes Callard https://thepointmag.com/2019/examined-life/is-philosophy-fight-club-agnes-callard?fbclid=iwar39xwu3ptce0kms07yhueqhquuoj8emovnjvvibfhwscsniajb9mgputxg 4 comments philosophy
- On being an arsehole: a philosophical defense https://thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/on-being-an-arsehole 62 comments philosophy
- The Emotion Police https://thepointmag.com/2019/examined-life/agnes-callard-the-emotion-police 6 comments philosophy
- “Public philosophy lends itself to the ‘business or pleasure’ dichotomy.” Agnes Callard asks whether public philosophy can be good. https://thepointmag.com/2019/examined-life/agnes-callard-is-public-philosophy-good 84 comments philosophy
- Justin E.H. Smith on subjectivity in the "extremely online" era: "People are now speaking in a way that results directly from the recent moneyballing of all of human existence. They are speaking, that is, algorithmically rather than subjectively" https://thepointmag.com/2019/examined-life/its-all-over 3 comments philosophy
- Calling Bullshit | The Point Magazine https://thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/calling-bullshit 5 comments philosophy
- On Being an Arsehole: A Defense https://thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/on-being-an-arsehole 3 comments philosophy
- Samuel Beckett's SAT Questions https://thepointmag.com/2016/examined-life/samuel-beckett-sat-questions 5 comments books
- Reading List on the Philosophy of Protest http://thepointmag.com/2016/politics/nonrequired-reading-protest 7 comments philosophy
- Nakul Krishna gives some reflections on academic moral philosophy, Bernard Williams, effective altruism, and related issues. http://thepointmag.com/2016/examined-life/add-your-own-egg 25 comments philosophy
- Complications of Philosophy - "I feel certain that if all the professional philosophers stopped writing philosophy altogether...astonishingly few non-philosophers would notice." [x-post r/AcademicPhilosophy) http://thepointmag.com/2015/examined-life/complications-of-philosophy 46 comments philosophy
- "Paper Chasing" - Interesting article about the pleasure of owning physical books http://thepointmag.com/2015/examined-life/paper-chasing 24 comments books
- Getting Animals in View [Christine Korsgaard's Kantian argument for animal rights] http://thepointmag.com/2012/examined-life/getting-animals-view 6 comments philosophy
- Free Issue of The Point Magazine http://thepointmag.com/rip-tnr 3 comments books
- Robert Pippin on the crisis of the humanities, history of European and American universities, the banality of neuroscience, the limits of intellectual movements in the last 40 years, and the coming perfect storm. http://thepointmag.com/2014/criticism/ways-knowing 87 comments philosophy
- "On Killing Animals" (A critique of the animal rights movement. It's concerned about animal suffering, but not killing) http://www.thepointmag.com/2012/philosophy/killing-animals 58 comments philosophy