Ever since The Point was founded twelve years ago by graduate students on a university campus in Chicago, it has faced in two directions at […]
To be an American in Europe is to live in the future of events, but in the past of news. On the morning of November […]
Last summer, my grandfather mailed me a copy of the erotic novel he had written in his basement, where he also has a ping-pong table and a collection of suspiciously acquired Mexican pots.
In 2019, fifty or so parents were found to have bribed administrators and coaches to have their children accepted to colleges around the country. This […]
Over the past seven years, I’ve helped create two curricular projects at the University of Virginia, one a new general education curriculum for undergraduates in […]
It was March of 1994, my freshman year in college. I was attending North Carolina Central University, a historically Black university in Durham, when I […]
This fall, after a year’s hiatus, Columbia College will welcome a new entering class to campus. Within hours of their arrival, the new students, numbering […]
Anna, the protagonist of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, plays a peculiar game to pass the time. She invented it as a child, but now, […]
Listen to an audio version of this essay: Curio · The Point | The Universe and the University Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist, is a […]
One of the wonders of modern academia is that the ideal of workplace democracy should be so prevalent among people who regularly endure faculty meetings. […]
No symposium about what college is for would be complete without the perspectives of those for whom the question is most immediate: college students. This […]
This essay is a preview of our forthcoming print issue, which features the symposium “What is college for?”
No symposium about what college is for would be complete without the perspectives of those for whom the question is most immediate: college students. This […]
There’s a cabin in the hills up above Malibu belonging to a Hollywood friend of mine, where I go when I get in the mood […]
In the early years of our century I ran across the name of Stuart Hall, though I don’t remember where. I came to him by […]
Years ago, I read a famous essay by Edward Said about Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. I grew up reading Austen, and adoring her, so the […]
Janet Cheatham Bell was accustomed to living alone. Her 83 years hang lightly on her face, which she attributes to the fact of her independence. […]
