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Interviews

Can Philanthropy Be Revolutionary?

A conversation with Amy Schiller about The Price of Humanity

November 29, 2023 • by Amy Schiller and Rachel Sherman

Amy Schiller sits down with Rachel Sherman to talk about how her newest book, The Price of Humanity, seeks to rescue philanthropy....

Media

What Does It Mean to Be “Latino”?

From ads to academia, which box do we check?

November 21, 2023 • by Kevin Anzzolin

From historical influences to contemporary marketing, Kevin Anzzolin explores the evolving nomenclature of the diverse "Latino" community....

Media

Being Online

“The world must be made interesting, an object of curiosity, to answer the economic demand of the media”

November 21, 2023 • by Noam Yuran

The mobile phone has changed what it means to be a person. It has taken away our ability to bear intense emotions. It has infringed our sense of autonomy and diminished our ability to be alone....

Interviews

Helen Schulman in Conversation about Lucky Dogs

Her latest novel explores the nuances and paradoxes of the #MeToo movement ignited by the Harvey Weinstein case

November 14, 2023 • by Brianna Corley and Helen Schulman

Though Lucky Dogs examines both the #MeToo movement and the nature of civil war (between women, between cultures), Schulman is quick to add that Lucky Dogs is also meant to be funny—as in fact the author is herself....

Helen Schulman in Conversation about Lucky Dogs

Interviews

Excavating Diverse Masculinities with Manuel Betancourt

The film critic reflects on his childhood obsessions with animated heartthrobs, queer-coded villains, and Pedro Almodóvar’s violent men in his first essay collection, The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men

June 5, 2023 • by Manuel Betancourt and Madeleine Janz

When journalist Manuel Betancourt started writing his new essay collection it was simply about the writer’s early fixations, from Disney’s 1997 depiction of Hercules to Mario Lopez’s performance of A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell. As he continued writing, it became obvious to Betancourt that he was hyper-focused ...

Excavating Diverse Masculinities with Manuel Betancourt

Editor's Picks

Multi-Verse Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

“ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” challenges the confines of the stage

May 31, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 8 of Multi-Verse, poet India Lena González reads and discusses her poem “ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham....

Multi-Verse Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

From the Editors

Celebrating Claire Potter

A farewell note from Jim Miller, Executive Editor of Public Seminar

May 25, 2023 • by James Miller

We at Public Seminar wanted to treat our readers to our own personal selection of some of Claire’s greatest hits, harvested from the archives of Public Seminar....

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Toward a Postliberal Future?

Patrick J. Deneen’s Regime Change and the Meletus option

May 16, 2023 • by Geoffrey Kurtz

Deneen invokes Machiavelli, but at a deeper level his model is Meletus: the whole class of “ordinary people,” all of them, have the right political instincts, and only the liberal “ruling elite,” like the deplorable Socrates, is corrupting the American polity....

Editor's Picks

Life As “The Blind Man”

I’m now a different kind of person in the eyes of the world

May 10, 2023 • by Mitchell Abidor

It’s over a year now that I’ve navigated using a white cane, and if I had a dollar for every time someone helped me to cross the street, I’d have a dollar....

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The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

May 9, 2023 • by Igor Torbakov

"Losing" Ukraine to an external enemy or to a domestic secessionist movement would be tantamount to the dismemberment of the national body....

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Our Next Guantánamo

Immigrants might become the next target for state-sponsored terrors

May 2, 2023 • by Joseph Margulies

We create Guantánamos in those fevered moments when imagined needs enflame ancient hatreds and modern fears, telling ourselves they will keep us safe and forgetting that they never have before. ...