Public Seminar

Writing With One Eye Squinting at Doom - Public Seminar

Ghosting: How Technology Is Changing Our Hope for Connection - Public Seminar

Stop Asking Whether AI Can Write Good - Public Seminar

The Left Needs a Better Defense of Trans People - Public Seminar

Hold Onto This - Public Seminar

Showering for Salvation - Public Seminar

publicseminar.org

The Return of the Oppressed  - Public Seminar

A Year After Cuts to USAID, an Urgent Reminder from the Ukraine-Poland Border - Public Seminar

Putting Everything on the Line for the Palestinians - Public Seminar

Against Innocence - Public Seminar

The Gaza Biennale - Public Seminar

A House in the Middle of the Road - Public Seminar

Love and Theft in a Drowning City - Public Seminar

Brick by Brick: Richard Siken Rebuilds His Interior World - Public Seminar

Death Rights - Public Seminar

What Would You Do Alone in a Cage With Nothing but Cocaine? - Public Seminar

The Ostriches: Part IV - Public Seminar

Some Notes on the Earth Seen From Space - Public Seminar

Feminism, Sports, and Football in North Korea - Public Seminar

"Things Happen" - Public Seminar

The Moral Right to Defend Yourself Against ICE - Public Seminar

Finding the Equator - Public Seminar

First as Comedy, Then as Farce - Public Seminar

A Transdisciplinary Foray Into Classical Performance - Public Seminar

One Battle After Another - Public Seminar

Joanna Walsh's E-Elegy - Public Seminar

Paolo Sorrentino on his new movie, La Grazia - Public Seminar

From William Lloyd Garrison to Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. - Public Seminar

Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan - Public Seminar

Should Universities Just Leave?  - Public Seminar

Data Sovereignty vs. Digital Prospecting - Public Seminar

A Mayor Who Promises the Moon - Public Seminar

The Gospel According to Queer Russians - Public Seminar

Can Poetry Re-enchant the Modern World? - Public Seminar

Panama Against Trump - Public Seminar

Imperfect Images - Public Seminar

Revelations and Reservations at the 2025 New York Film Festival - Public Seminar

A Lost Utopia - Public Seminar

Looking Back on the Zapatistas’ Revolutionary Fashion - Public Seminar

The Revolutionary Street Art of Bangladesh’s 2024 Uprising - Public Seminar

The Lonely Moralists - Public Seminar

A Martyr and a Meme - Public Seminar

Bruno Schulz's Poetics of Golus - Public Seminar

Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap - Public Seminar

Mining Memories for Fiction - Public Seminar

Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair - Public Seminar

A Dystopian Novel for Our Times - Public Seminar

The Fate of the Artist Under Totalitarianism - Public Seminar

“The Amazon Is Not a Warehouse” - Public Seminar

The Politics of Music and Motorcycles in Indonesia - Public Seminar

Trump, Thucydides, and the Corruption of Language - Public Seminar

Trump, Thucydides, and the Corruption of Language - Public Seminar

Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire - Public Seminar

The Pulse of Palestinian Identity in New Jersey - Public Seminar

Naked Oligarchy - Public Seminar

Writing Was Always Magical - Public Seminar

Electronic Music’s Savior Complex - Public Seminar

Trump Versus Los Angeles, Immigrants, and the Rule of Law - Public Seminar

The Administrative State, Its Democratic Deficits, and How to Fix Them in Comparative Historical Perspective - Public Seminar

Serbia’s Popular Protest Movement and Why It Matters - Public Seminar

Great Engineers, Terrible Philosophers - Public Seminar

United States Makes Weapons—Then Sells Them to Mexican Cartels - Public Seminar

Reimagining Ecological Repair - Public Seminar

God Bless Perverts - Public Seminar

Blurb Me - Public Seminar

The Vision of Hegemony Driving Israel’s Regional Policy - Public Seminar

The Working-Class Venezuelans at the Center of Trump’s “Crisis” - Public Seminar

How Israel Freezes Palestinian Salaries - Public Seminar

Cooking Noodles on Rikers Island - Public Seminar

The Islandization of Miami - Public Seminar

The Left Needs a Better Defense of Trans People - Public Seminar

Blasphemy Is a Victimless Crime - Public Seminar

Paying for College Was Already Stressful. Then Came Trump and DOGE. - Public Seminar

Yes, Some of Our Enemies Are Feminists - Public Seminar

In I’m Still Here, a Mother Refuses to Let a Dictatorship Rewrite Reality - Public Seminar

The Taliban's Systematic Erasure of Women Is Crippling Afghan Society - Public Seminar

Guantanamo, Again - Public Seminar

Standing Up for the Health of Black Americans - Public Seminar

Why Progressive "Myths" Distort Solutions to the Housing Shortage - Public Seminar

Honduras Fights Back Against Global Oligarchy - Public Seminar

The Rare Beauty of Folkstyle Wrestling - Public Seminar

Violence and Policing Minorities - Public Seminar

Who Does My Algorithm Think I Am? - Public Seminar

At Parsons, Getting Dressed Is Extra Homework - Public Seminar

How Venezuelans Reclaimed Their Communes - Public Seminar

Rethinking Empathy - Public Seminar

Asylum and the Hierarchy of Suffering - Public Seminar

In Search of the Sublime … Underground - Public Seminar

Border Time - Public Seminar

“If You Wish to Know Who a Man Truly Is, Give Him Power” - Public Seminar

Augusto Monterroso's The Rest Is Silence - Public Seminar

The Self-Orientalization of Israeli Politics - Public Seminar

Vladimir Putin, Man of Yesterday - Public Seminar

An Open Letter to Kamala Harris - Public Seminar

Danzy Senna’s Colored Television Isn’t So Funny - Public Seminar

Trust in Political Leaders Plummets Worldwide - Public Seminar

The Dictatorship of the Tech Bros—or, What Is to Be Done? - Public Seminar

No Sex With Men - Public Seminar

The Powerful Convergence of Past, Present, and Future in Catherine Texier’s Latest Novel - Public Seminar

The Blessings of K-Pop - Public Seminar

Family Values or Family Exclusion? - Public Seminar

Generations of Women in The Witches of El Paso - Public Seminar

The Fashion for Baiting, Brainwashing, and Bullying - Public Seminar

Her Choice - Public Seminar

Reconstructing Capital - Public Seminar

Misanthropy Is Having a Moment - Public Seminar

Subscribe to the weekly Public Seminar newsletter

Schools Are for Children, Not Soldiers - Public Seminar

A Monk Without a Monastery - Public Seminar

Manga Colossus Goes Inflatable on Broadway - Public Seminar

Where the Avant-Garde Went to Grow - Public Seminar

Christine de Pizan and Women's Tongues - Public Seminar

Building Black Political Power in Jackson, Mississippi - Public Seminar

Emily Nussbaum Is Getting Realer Than Real - Public Seminar

Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar

Election Anxiety Mixtape - Public Seminar

The anti-immigrant election

Trump’s Charm Offensive - Public Seminar

Voting While Uncommitted - Public Seminar

Immigration and the US Presidential Election - Public Seminar

Noncitizen Voting and the Politics of Common Sense in New York City - Public Seminar

What Democrats Lose in Ignoring the Uncommitted Movement - Public Seminar

Economists Should Take a Page from Student Activism - Public Seminar

“Blame It on the Immigrant”: The Housing Crisis Edition - Public Seminar

What Courtney Love Knows About Taylor Swift - Public Seminar

How American Jewish Marxists Forged a Macho Style for Public Intellectuals - Public Seminar

Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot - Public Seminar

The New Urgency of LGBTQ+ Pride in Paris - Public Seminar

Bad Breaking - Public Seminar

Academic Dialogue Against the Background of War - Public Seminar

To Cancel or Not to Cancel? Questioning the Russian Idea - Public Seminar

The Sword Is Mightier Than the Pen - Public Seminar

Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine - Public Seminar

Ukrainian Studies Struggle Against Imperial Heritage - Public Seminar

To Know Your Enemy's Face - Public Seminar

Why It’s Hard to Write About Joyce Carol Oates - Public Seminar

Notes on Jonathan Glazer's Zone of Interest - Public Seminar

Poet Paisley Rekdal Summons the Lost Voices of Chinese Railroad Workers - Public Seminar

Before Kamala, There Was Shyamala - Public Seminar

On The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe - Public Seminar

Camille Bordas’s Latest Novel Follows Comedians on the Hunt for Material - Public Seminar

How Moderate Republicans Went Extinct - Public Seminar

Social Capitalism - Public Seminar

Venezuelans Battle a Crumbling Democracy and a Stolen Election - Public Seminar

Biden's Green Protectionism - Public Seminar

When Politicians Make Nice - Public Seminar

Shakespeare’s Ultimate Crip Text - Public Seminar

“Village NBA” in China - Public Seminar

Very Far From the Homeland - Public Seminar

The Legacy of the Catholic New Right in Project 2025 - Public Seminar

A New Media Artist from Tehran at The New School - Public Seminar

Philip Metres's Nostalgia - Public Seminar

Taking the Sad Measure of the "Better FAFSA" Fiasco - Public Seminar

Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century - Public Seminar

“The gun has become a type of thinking” - Public Seminar

Is Finance a "Parasite"? - Public Seminar

The Future for India’s Opposition - Public Seminar

Israel Has Weaponized Trauma. Should We Talk About It? - Public Seminar

Slow Torture in Gaza - Public Seminar

The Transformations of Katherine Dunham - Public Seminar

Ideology After Marxism - Public Seminar

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made - Public Seminar

The Furies Reconsidered - Public Seminar

The Right Hand of the State and the American Left - Public Seminar

The World’s “Largest Democracy”? - Public Seminar

From “Boring” to “Roaring” Banking - Public Seminar

The Evolution of America’s (Un)protected Consumer - Public Seminar

Liberalism Against Itself and the Return of the Cold War - Public Seminar

Publishing and Political Culture - Public Seminar

The Texas Attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education - Public Seminar

Universalism in Dark Times - Public Seminar

Exploring Immigrant Experiences - Public Seminar

“I was concerned for her knees” - Public Seminar

HE 2 SHE: Artist Pippa Garner Hacks Her Gender - Public Seminar

Putin and Patriarch Kirill’s Promise of Universal Liberation - Public Seminar

The French Politics of the Pantheon and the Monumental Hypocrisy of Emmanuel Macron - Public Seminar

A Band on the Brink of Collapse - Public Seminar

From the River to the Sea, There Is Space for Many Different Interpretations - Public Seminar

Eugene Ostashevsky on the Holding Pattern of Revenge - Public Seminar

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration - Public Seminar

It’s Not a Migrant Crisis—It’s a Political Crisis - Public Seminar

Who's Afraid of the Large Language Model? - Public Seminar

Invisible Scam: Percival Everett’s Erasure - Public Seminar

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest - Public Seminar

Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter - Public Seminar

Threshold Dwelling in the Ruins of Llano del Rio - Public Seminar

Testing the Waters in Gotham - Public Seminar

The New Silk Road - Public Seminar

Forget This Book - Public Seminar

Germany, Genocide, and Gaza - Public Seminar

Never Again Should Be for Anybody - Public Seminar

Taking Water for Granted - Public Seminar

The Little Prince Haunts New York - Public Seminar

The Hunger Artist - Public Seminar

Taylor Swift: The Modest Proposal - Public Seminar

You Belong to Me - Public Seminar

Taylor Swift, the Modern Alcibiades - Public Seminar

The Mysteries of Taylor Swift - Public Seminar

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl - Public Seminar

The Rise of AI Ethics - Public Seminar

Traumatized Heroes - Public Seminar

The Man Who Was Too Strong - Public Seminar

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine - Public Seminar

Preventing Genocide - Public Seminar

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel - Public Seminar

American Fiction Offers a New Spin on the Challenges Facing Black Artists - Public Seminar

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t. - Public Seminar

The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research - Public Seminar

The Cyclopes in the Food Court - Public Seminar

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t. - Public Seminar

Democracy’s Endgame? - Public Seminar

Ethologies of Animal Politics - Public Seminar

Losing a Country, Losing a Father - Public Seminar

Silencing Teachers in Yemen - Public Seminar

Cinelogue Is Decolonizing the Film Canon - Public Seminar

What Are We to Make of Lars von Trier? - Public Seminar

On “Slow Cinema” - Public Seminar

Netflix Revives the Genre of the “Blaxploitation” Film to Attract Black Subscribers - Public Seminar

Singer-Songwriter Indigo de Souza on Death and the Beauty of Life - Public Seminar

How Deathcore Superstars Lorna Shore Evoke “the Nothing” - Public Seminar

Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine - Public Seminar

An Experimental Music Community Grows in Brooklyn - Public Seminar

Questioning Art in a Time of War - Public Seminar

Nature, Wild Girls, and Putting History in a New Environmental Perspective. - Public Seminar

Beyond Colonialism in a Sentimental Mood - Public Seminar

Can Philanthropy Be Revolutionary? - Public Seminar

A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace - Public Seminar

Market Failures - Public Seminar

A Response to “Principles of Solidarity. A Statement” - Public Seminar

What Does It Mean to Be “Latino”? - Public Seminar

Being Online - Public Seminar

Diaries of War - Public Seminar

Helen Schulman in Conversation about Lucky Dogs - Public Seminar

The Humanities As a Theory of Change - Public Seminar

Helen Schulman's New Novel Is a Nail-Biter - Public Seminar

Liliana's Invincible Summer - Public Seminar

Happily Single - Public Seminar

How to Move Beyond Our Endless Disagreements over Abortion Policies - Public Seminar

From the Editors at Public Seminar This Week | Substack

Sleepwalkers - Public Seminar

Have We Scholars of Anti-Semitism Failed to Facilitate Empathy for Its Victims? - Public Seminar

Darkness Falls on Gaza - Public Seminar

Sleepwalkers - Public Seminar

In Ecuador, a New Beginning? - Public Seminar

Reflections on the War between Israel and Hamas  - Public Seminar

Anti-natalists Have an Image Problem - Public Seminar

Could Donald Trump Pardon Himself? - Public Seminar

How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City - Public Seminar

Wildfires, Rhodes, and the Legacies of Fascism - Public Seminar

Doll Power - Public Seminar

Dark Matter: Oppenheimer’s American Sublime - Public Seminar

The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini - Public Seminar

Write for us! Check out our submissions guidelines here 👩🏽‍💻

Visit our home page