I was once told that I was in an abusive relationship with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. It is true that they have […] The post Begin the World Over Again appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
Aristotle, a student of a wrestler named Plato, taught that eudaimonia, usually translated as “happiness” or “the good life,” requires both intellectual and moral virtues. […]| The Point Magazine
While “everyone” may understand the pragmatic or raw emotive reasons for violence, I’m not sure anyone understands sadistic violence sans motive, especially when acted out on helpless victims or in the context of social normalcy. Or maybe we do understand. The post Demonic Force appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
Christian pacifism irritates because it demands what the biblical scholar Richard Hays calls “the conversion of the imagination”—the overturning of certain assumptions that modernity lives by. The post Militants for Peace appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
Tonight, across this country and on bases far afield, young American soldiers will take shifts guarding explosives. The post Fear and Trembling in the Garrison appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
In the fall of 2023 my first television show entered that bone-chilling process known as development.| The Point Magazine
Over the course of the past two years, university committees focused on the impact of artificial intelligence have assembled across the country.| The Point Magazine
Even when sincerely believed, the “truths” of the post-feminists are alternative; their motives mixed, if not downright ulterior.| The Point Magazine
In the past decade or so, there’s been a flowering of philosophical self-help—books authored by academics but intended to instruct us all.| The Point Magazine
There is a minor grievance I have been nursing for some time now, against a friend who uninvited me from a party he threw.| The Point Magazine