âWhy shouldnât consent of some kind be part of what makes something sex, not just something one does to sex?â New online, Jessie Munton on what sex is:
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 [âŚ]
In our new issueâs special section on Education & Society, Elisa Gonzalez journeys from homeschooled child to instructor on Columbiaâs campus during the protests last spring, reflecting along the way on the morality of self-education and the education of morality:
I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday.
Our new issueâfeaturing a special section on Education and Societyâis online! You can read it all here: thepointmag.com/issue/issue-33/
âYou still ask: Why canât I fantasize about some more appropriate target? This is like asking, Why canât I be free of desire?â In todayâs new installment of Higher Gossip, Lillian Fishman asks: Do we have to feel bad about our most familiar taboos?
âI think Iâm just sexually attracted to women who are conventionally hot, and that tends to mean ânot 55.â But it somehow feels, I dunno, out of keeping with my largely feminist values to be so unattr...
âWhat made the air in the provinces as unbreathable as the air in the city will need a bookâthat book, of the history of the changing quality of my countryâs air, will be the real history of India in the 21st century.â New online, Sumana Roy on what happened to the Indian provincesâ âhawa badalâ:
When they told us that we had no history, we told them that we had hawa. Like most children, who are born reporters, we were [âŚ]
Hometown readers: join us next month at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social to celebrate âThe Black Utopians,â Point contributor Aaron Robertsonâs debut book! Heâll be in conversation with Lauren Michele Jackson. Further details here:
Join us at Pilsen Community Books for a book event in celebration of the publication of Point contributor Aaron Robertsonâs debut book, The Black Utopians: [âŚ]
âWhat scholars of religion do is account for why groups of people consistently agree to things that other people think are incomprehensible, irrational, even senseless.â A classic from the archive: Kathryn Lofton on Trump.
It is therefore unsurprising that I, a scholar of religion, am invested in an account of Trump that renders his absurdity less so. It is, perhaps, my sole specific obligation: to figure out the reason...
Issue 33âfeaturing a special section on Education and Societyâis almost here! Check out the annotated table of contents for an extended preview:
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âWhat Silver willfully ignores is that the successful players in this world arenât the bettors.â New online, Leif Weatherby and Ben Recht on Nate Silverâs âOn the Edge,â and the perils of a world where everything is bettable:
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...
âIs sex about expressing our earnest and fundamental nature, or ought sex allow us to be, to feel, like someone different?â In this monthâs new edition of Higher Gossip, Lillian Fishman asks: What kind of performance is sex?
Youâre right: much of sex does feel like theater. But what kind of theater is it?