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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

managing editor of @the_point_mag //
co-author of “What Are Children For?” with @a_n_a_berg //
essay pitches? email rwiseman at thepointmag.com

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Tomorrow at 11am is our first info session for the 2025 Point / Uchicago summer workshop in public thinking. Register here to get the link! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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The national vibeshift continues with this excellent new issue of the Point, which already had the right vibes anyway. Especially noteworthy: "Last Boys at the Beginning of History" and "Among the Post-Feminists." thepointmag.com/politics/last-… thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

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Wrote about marriage, humiliation, dependence—with help from the invaluable experience and wisdom of John Updike, Mary McCarthy, & Lizzie Hardwick🩵 and of The Point Magazine editors: I could not have done this for or with anyone else. thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

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One of the best—most stimulating, probing and fun—book talks I've had, with Ellie Anderson for Overthink Podcast, is now live! The only thing missing was Rachel Wiseman. youtube.com/watch?v=OyGTVI…

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One of the key questions of life writing—perhaps of life—is the extent to which a person can be summed up by any one particular moment. And this is a question that is especially pertinent in an examination of Robert Frost. thepointmag.com/criticism/the-…

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clarifying words from Anastasia Berg on the pronatalist discourse and why denialism is a dead end for feminism: thepointmag.substack.com/p/bringing-up-…

clarifying words from <a href="/a_n_a_berg/">Anastasia Berg</a> on the pronatalist discourse and why denialism is a dead end for feminism: thepointmag.substack.com/p/bringing-up-…
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In our book, Rachel Wiseman and I describe how an age where children/parenting was an urgent topic in feminist discourse gave way to a moratorium on the topic. For all of discourse's faults, it's exciting to see these questions publicly thought through, by feminists, once more

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“To come up with a good AI policy for a university,” writes Megan Fritts, “one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

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Thrilled to see Greg Jackson's essay from issue 31 of The Point Magazine chosen for Best American Essays this year. One of those pieces that gave me new words to describe what was happening all around me.

Thrilled to see Greg Jackson's essay from issue 31 of <a href="/the_point_mag/">The Point Magazine</a>  chosen for Best American Essays this year. One of those pieces that gave me new words to describe what was happening all around me.
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The The Chronicle of Higher Education republished my essay on the challenge posed to university AI committees! I've gotten so much good feedback about this piece, and I'm very happy these conversations are happening. chronicle.com/article/what-i…

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“We notice that our ethical, civic, and philosophical education addresses various things, but it doesn’t address the question of the value of a human future.” Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman talk with (((Brian Dijkema))) about their book, “What Are Children For?”

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Technology elevates efficiency over friction and seamlessness over inconvenience. Is that a bad thing? thepointmag.com/criticism/enco…

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What are children for? Western societies have fallen out of love with (having) children, and all too often this is treated as a policy problem. But in reality, it's a much deeper personal and philosophical one. What has changed in our attitudes to having children? How do we

What are children for? 

Western societies have fallen out of love with (having) children, and all too often this is treated as a policy problem. But in reality, it's a much deeper personal and philosophical one.

What has changed in our attitudes to having children? How do we