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What Troubled You in 2025?
An end of year New Critic symposium
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The Crazy Train
A conversation with the high council of effective altruism
 • Elan Kluger, Bentham's Bulldog, Amos Wollen, and Noah Birnbaum
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.”
 • Zayd Vlach
To Keep The New Critic Alive
Our solution to the publication running out of money
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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.”
 • Will Diana
In Defense of the Personal Essay
"If everyone’s a critic, no one’s out there living."
 • Everett Yum
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…
 • Daniel Sandoval
Becoming Shrimp-Pilled
“If sentience is what matters…humans are not the center of the moral universe.”
 • Bentham's Bulldog
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The Attention Seekers
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