The Point: A Magazine of the Examined Life with Jon Baskin

Jon Baskin is a founding editor of The Point: A Magazine of the Examined Life and Associate Director for the Program in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School for Social Research. We discuss why The Point magazine should be read by anyone interested in thinking about their life in a serious, critical way, what Allan Bloom was right and wrong about, and whether it’s really true that technology is necessarily corrosive of intellectual life and encounter. Jon Baskin mentions several articles in our conversation; links below: “The Problem of Force,” by Scott Beauchamp, on his experiences in war in conversation with Simone Weil and the Iliad: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-problem-of-force-simone-weil/Agnes Callard, on anger in conversation with the Old Testament: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/anger-management-agnes-callard/“No Such Thing,” where the death of Margaret Thatcher brings Jonny Thakkar back to Adam Smith and Plato on whether there is such a thing as society: https://thepointmag.com/politics/no-such-thing/“Lovers in the Hands of a Patient God,” on American love by way of Jonathan Edwards, William James, and Hollywood romantic comedies: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/lovers-in-the-hands-of-a-patient-god/“Against Honeymoons,” a good example of taking a seemingly frivolous contemporary phenomenon very seriously: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/against-honeymoons/“Steroids, Baseball, America”: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/steroids-baseball-america/********************************Free video series: The Person: Action and Influence: www.catholicfaithandculture.udallas.edu/landi…uenceLiberal Learning for Life @ University of Dallas: udallas.edu/liberal-learning/​Twitter: twitter.com/lib_learning_ud​Instagram: www.instagram.com/liberallearningforlife/Facebook: www.facebook.com/liberallearningforlife