Archive - Public Seminar

Citizen v. Self

Adam Tooze on industrial warfare, Oz Frankel on America in Israel, and Mary Karmelek on the trappings of home

Jan 31 •

"Family values" politics, K-Pop's spiritual community, and age-gap affairs

Jan 24 •

Project Christian Radicalism

Chelsea Ebin on the Catholic New Right, the Heritage Foundation, and the origins of Project 2025

Jan 17 •

No room for innocence or beauty

Mariam Matar on Jonathan Glazer's Zone of Interest

Jan 10 •

Elon Musk's parenting problem

Summer repeat: Justin Joque on billionaire fathers

Jan 3 •

December 2024

An unlikely gift guide

A cure for writer's block and little bit of upward mobility

Dec 20, 2024 •

Don't protect us

On abortion, witchcraft, and throwing out fast fashion

Dec 13, 2024 •

The problem with hermits

The politics of fight vs. the philosophy of flight

Dec 6, 2024 •

November 2024

Yes, there are other cities

Black-led cooperatives, bohemian Greenwich Village, a sanctuary for women, and a fortress against Titans

Nov 27, 2024 •

The novel exploded

Edwin Frank reads the classics

Nov 22, 2024 •

Femicide and fossil fuels

Ever Osorio and Martin Weiner on the policies failing to protect us

Nov 14, 2024 •

Save the date: ABOLISH RENT

A public talk with the cofounders of the largest tenants' union in the United States

Nov 7, 2024 •

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