The Point (magazine)
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| Type | Magazine |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Founders | Jon Baskin, Jonny Thakkar, Etay Zwick |
| Based in | Chicago, Illinois |
| Frequency | Three print issues per year |
| Website | thepointmag.com |
The Point is a print and digital magazine of philosophical writing based in Chicago. It was conceived in 2008 by Jon Baskin, Jonny Thakkar, and Etay Zwick while they were graduate students at the University of Chicago. Its name comes from Promontory Point, a park on Chicago's South Side.[1]
Format
The magazine publishes three print issues a year, along with essays published online. Most print issues have three sections: essays, a symposium in which several writers respond to a question chosen by the editors, and reviews.[1]
Approach
The Point describes its mission as showing that humanistic, philosophical thinking is relevant to contemporary life and to everyday experience. It does not claim a particular political or social agenda, and draws on multiple intellectual traditions.[1] The critic James Wood has praised it as "consistently wise, provocative, intelligent, serious, and just".[1]
Its editors include Jon Baskin, Anastasia Berg, Jesse McCarthy, John Palattella, Becca Rothfeld, Jonny Thakkar, and Rachel Wiseman, the managing editor.[1] James Duesterberg, a contributing editor, wrote the 2024 essay "Get in the Crystal" about the Milady Election Night Watch Party at Sovereign House.