“Consistently wise, provocative, intelligent, serious, and just. Can that be said of any other journal in America? I doubt it.” — James Wood

 

The Point is a print and digital magazine of philosophical writing based in Chicago. It embodies two distinct but complementary convictions: on the one hand, that humanistic thinking has relevance for contemporary life; on the other, that our lives are full of experiences worth thinking about. Each issue contains three sections: essays that blend memoir, criticism and journalism to examine the ideas and beliefs that shape our world; a symposium that gathers contributions on a topic chosen by the editors (e.g. privacy, sports, film, marriage), and reviews of pretty much anything at all.