The Point Program for Public Thinking Summer Workshop: The Personal and the Political

The Summer Workshop provides a space for undergraduate students interested in journalism, criticism, politics, art, and nonprofit work to learn about and practice engaging the public through dialogue and writing.

The theme of this year’s workshop is “The Personal and the Political.” Some of its central questions will be: Is it desirable to separate the personal and the political? Is it possible? How do we balance political allegiances with our intellectual, religious, and aesthetic values? Can we pursue dialogue, let alone maintain friendship and romance, across deep political disagreement? Students will address these and related questions in conversation with one another as well as with various philosophical, political, artistic, and religious traditions. For their final assignment, they will outline a longform essay or design a project to foster public conversation about the personal and the political on their own college campuses.

See more information at https://www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com/.