The Bookmaker
In the lead-up to the 2008 election, Nate Silver revolutionized the way we talk about politics, bringing cold, hard, numerical facts to a world that had been dominated by the gut feelings of reporters...
View ArticleNotes Toward a Preface About School Statements
Introduction These notes are not a blueprint for how to write a school statement, or a script for how teachers should tackle hot-button topics. In […] The post Notes Toward a Preface About School...
View ArticleIssue 33
The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 33. The post Issue 33 appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleHawa Badal
When they told us that we had no history, we told them that we had hawa. The post Hawa Badal appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleInappropriate Desires
“I think I’m just sexually attracted to women who are conventionally hot, and that tends to mean ‘not 55.’ But it somehow feels, I dunno, out of keeping with my largely feminist values to be so...
View ArticleThe Screen
The screen is very tall. It can’t be passed over or under or around or beside, has no gaps or passageways. The post The Screen appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleCéline’s War
Céline wasn’t the first writer to use laughter to explore the abyss, but the history of dark comedy only becomes visible from the perspective established by his prose. The post Céline’s...
View ArticleTeeth
Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. The post Teeth appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticlePopular History
What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work? The post Popular History appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleEverything Is Out of Water
Academic philosophers—people for whom philosophy is a profession—like to joke about their discomfort on airplanes. The post Everything Is Out of Water appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleCommit Lit
In 2012, at the age of 25, I quit my part-time jobs cooking and cleaning houses and, having dropped out during my first semester seven years earlier, went back to school. The post Commit Lit appeared...
View ArticleThe Velvet Ditch
“Happy hour at the City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi is where the whole hip world would spend Thursday night if the Nazis won the war,” I say. The post The Velvet Ditch appeared first on The Point...
View ArticleBeyond Neutrality
Protest exposes a tension between the university’s intellectual mission and its political ambitions. The post Beyond Neutrality appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleSchooling Myself
I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday. The post Schooling Myself appeared first on The Point Magazine.
View ArticleOn Students
As the campus protests against the war in Gaza spread across the country this past spring, affecting hundreds of colleges and resulting in the arrest of some three thousand protesters, academics and...
View ArticleThe Sex Dimension
The 2023 film How to Have Sex follows three sixteen-year-old girls on their first holiday abroad together, intent on a bender of drink, dancing, poolside […] The post The Sex Dimension appeared first...
View ArticleDoes Love Just Happen to Us?
What is the root of that thing that feels magical when we “just know,” or when we’re overcome by that “gust of agitation,” or when we’re hit “like a lightning bolt”? Is it fascination? A sense of...
View ArticleThe Nature of the Beast
Son of Ingagi is less a reiteration of the Negro ape narrative than an intervention in it: a clever subversion of an anti-black mythology, a discordant counter-refrain. The post The Nature of the Beast...
View ArticleHello in There
I went to Philadelphia in a year of hurricanes, wildfires and peak temperatures to make the proverbial difference, or at least know I had done […] The post Hello in There appeared first on The Point...
View ArticleLessons Learned?
On Saturday, October 19th, Margaret Sullivan joined us at the University of Chicago for a public dialogue cohosted by the Program for Public Thinking. Sullivan, […] The post Lessons Learned? appeared...
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