I Feel Love: A Conversation with Rachel Nuwer on MDMA and Connection

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Rachel Nuwer, science journalist and author joins Alex Criddle and Michael 't Sas-Rolfes for a discussion of her most recent book: I Feel Love, MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World. Once vilified as a drug that would eat holes in user's brains, MDMA (also known as Molly or Ecstasy) is now…

Western Canon Book Club: Shakespeare’s inadequate kings: Prospero, Hamlet, Richard III.

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Writer Henry Oliver joins the Western Canon Book Club series for a salon about three unusual Shakespearean kings. What do Hamlet, Prospero, and Richard III have in common? They are all inadequate rulers. Prospero abandoned his dukedom for his library, Richard III is a criminal tyrant, and Hamlet is impolitic. Taken from three different stages…

What Are Children For? Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman in Conversation with Tara Isabella Burton

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Join authors of What Are Children For?  (and editors at The Point) Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman and novelist/theologian Tara Isabella Burton for a conversation about parenthood, purpose, and the possibility of embracing a human future. What does the future of parenthood look like – and how do we make sense of its sacrifices in the modern world? …