Experience Is Psychosis

“As part of the school’s Covid policy, we both had to spend ten days in isolation.”

Feb 18 • Will Diana and The New Critic

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p(doom)

“Can prediction markets shake the hedonistic monkey from their back?”

Feb 14 • Rufus Knuppel

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January 2026

A Cruel Joke Is Still a Joke

“Everything is plainly put, and everything is as it seems. There is nothing to be found here. It is vacuous.”

Jan 29 • nadav

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Imagematic Life

“I am finding it all too easy to abandon my imagematic way of life.”

Jan 8 • Grace Caplan

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What Troubled You in 2025?

An end of year New Critic symposium

Jan 1 • The New Critic

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December 2025

The Crazy Train

A conversation with the high council of effective altruism

Dec 31, 2025 • Elan Kluger, Bentham's Bulldog, Amos Wollen, and Noah Birnbaum

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End Times

“Gasda’s bubble of hope in the BCTR is not enough to support all of our futures, maybe just his and a few beautiful actors.”

Dec 15, 2025 • Zayd Vlach

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To Keep The New Critic Alive

Our solution to the publication running out of money

Dec 12, 2025 • The New Critic

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Finding a Scene among the Corporate and the Damned

“D.C. is full of people, believe it or not, who dream of beauty.”

Dec 8, 2025 • Will Diana

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In Defense of the Personal Essay

"If everyone’s a critic, no one’s out there living."

Dec 2, 2025 • Everett Yum

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November 2025

Great and Wonderful Days

“You can enter the old world through your new-world parish, where the harsh rules have remained and the old Russian princes live on as Orthodox…

Nov 10, 2025 • Daniel Sandoval

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Becoming Shrimp-Pilled

“If sentience is what matters…humans are not the center of the moral universe.”

Nov 6, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

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