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Last Girl at the Beginning of History
Postscript No. 18 | Mana Afsari on the boys and girls of gen z and the New Right
Jun 5
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Mana Afsari
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The New Critic
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What Was College For?
The winning address of the first New Critic essay contest
Jun 2
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Benjamin Samuels
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May 2026
Voluntary Oasis
Postscript No. 17 | Declan Rexer on Deep Springs
May 30
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The New Critic
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Declan
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American Berserk
“It was always fucking Willie Nelson around here. Carl hated the Palestinians. He loved organic farming. The man contained multitudes.”
May 28
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Samuel Rigg
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Not New York
“Where will you be next year?”
May 26
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Declan
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Worse Than You Think
Postscript No. 16 | Clare Ashcraft on gen z doomerism and romantic delusion
May 22
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Clare Ashcraft
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The New Critic
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Collegiate Value
“But I knew I would come to regret the nearly $200,000 in student loans I’d have to take out because I wanted to go somewhere beautiful.”
May 22
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Clare Ashcraft
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The Girls Who Watch Girls
“I remember us talking on treadmills positioned next to each other…getting ready to go out by rubbing the coconut oil she read porn stars used on our…
May 19
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Sarah Miller
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Bridge over Troubled Water
Postscript No. 15 | Owen Yingling on AI at UChicago, the art of the polemic, and everything of any significance
May 15
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The New Critic
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Owen Yingling
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Is Gen Z afraid of risk, or just more aware?
The editors of The New Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist.
Published on Asterisk Magazine
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May 13
“What Was College For?”
Introducing a $1,000 New Critic contest
May 13
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The New Critic
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The Great Zombification
“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student…
May 11
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Owen Yingling
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