Rachel Wiseman

Nov 2, 2024 | thepointmag.com | Rachel Wiseman |margaret sullivan

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, one of the country’s most prominent media critics, served as the public editor of the New York Times from 2012 to 2016, and went on to be a media columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian. Sullivan got her start at the Buffalo News, where she rose through the ranks to become the paper’s first woman editor.

Jul 19, 2023 | thepointmag.com | Rachel Wiseman

For five months last year I was going to be a mother. In early spring I stared at the home pregnancy test in elated disbelief, after only three months of trying. (Before that I had had the paranoid intuition—a correct one, as it would turn out—that pregnancy would not come easily to me.) There was the impish pleasure, for those few days in March, of keeping the pregnancy a secret, one that only the two of us knew.