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Interviews

When the World Abandoned the Cambodian Refugees

An interview with author James Taing about his father’s escape from the Cambodian genocide

March 22, 2023 • by Tobias Lentz and James Taing

I think in today's world where everyone has an immigration problem, we need to make sure we are not repeating the same mistakes....

When the World Abandoned the Cambodian Refugees

Interviews

Understanding Sovereign Lending

An interview with Quentin Bruneau on his new book, States and the Masters of Capital

March 1, 2023 • by Quentin Bruneau and Zoe Cole

While we can quibble about what sovereignty means as social scientists, the international system is almost exclusively populated by sovereign states—and I wanted to understand how lending to such entities functions....

Interviews

Poetry, Cocktails, and Faith

A conversation with poet Mashnun Munir

February 27, 2023 • by Shaiful Alam and Mashnun Munir

An interview with Mashnun Munir about his debut book Headspun and his experience of growing up in a low-income Muslim community in Orlando....

Interviews

Globalization’s Discontent

How a Financial Times journalist became a prominent critic of globalization

February 22, 2023 • by Rana Foroohar and Ben Kodres-O'Brien

In my interview with Rana Foroohar, we discuss her childhood and professional trajectory, and discover how she came to formulate the ideas that comprise her economic vision...

Interviews

“A Terrible Time”

A conversation with Camilla Fitzsimons about the ongoing global fight for abortion rights

February 6, 2023 • by Amalie Thieden and Camilla Fitzsimons

When I was campaigning to repeal the Eighth Amendment in 2018, many older people were very, very, very welcoming of the referendum; they had somebody in their family who had had to travel abroad to get an abortion, or they had experienced or known women who felt they’d had too ...

Interviews

I Think of It as a Diary

An interview with Anne Waldman about her book Bard, Kinetic and a political life well-lived

January 25, 2023 • by Lindsey Scharold and Anne Waldman

Lindsey Scharold spoke with Waldman about where these themes overlap: where others intersect with memoir, where the spiritual aligns with the political, and where theory and practice meet....

Interviews

Between Tokenization and Representation

A conversation with novelist Iman Hariri-Kia

January 18, 2023 • by Yasmeen Hamadeh and Iman Hariri-Kia

An interview with Iman Hariri-Kia’s on her debut novel, A Hundred Other Girls (Sourcebooks, 2022)...

Announcements

Until We Meet Again

Public Seminar suspends publication until the conclusion of the part-time faculty strike at The New School

November 16, 2022 • by James Miller and Claire Potter

Public Seminar has suspended publication as of November 16, 2022, until The New School and the part-time faculty union have arrived at a new contract, allowing our part-time colleagues to return to work. We will not be accepting pitches, or answering queries, until further notice....

Capitalism

The Rat Race of Prestige and Boredom

W. David Marx on how status affects human behavior

November 9, 2022 • by Alla Anatsko and W. David Marx

The whole idea of cultural capital is knowing what objects to buy, how to arrange them, how to behave—all of these things go together. Just because you can purchase an object does not mean you can get into the group....

Interviews

The Moment I Knew I Could Not Be a Priest

John D’Emilio discusses his new memoir, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

November 8, 2022 • by John D’Emilio and Claire Potter

My three best friends in high school all went into the Jesuits after graduation. When I say they are my three best friends, the four of us ate at the same table every day for three years at school. So I had the sense that I wanted to apply to ...

The Moment I Knew I Could Not Be a Priest

Democracy

Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech?

Curators Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich discuss Studies into Darkness

November 1, 2022 • by Carin Kuoni, Laura Raicovich and Lindsey Scharold

Building up to the Trump presidency in the U.S. and, at the same time, coinciding with the rise of authoritarian regimes in democracies in Europe, Hungary, and Italy years prior to that, it seemed very important to look at the Right and its complete embrace of freedom of speech in ...

Gender

What Does It Mean to Be “Authentic”?

Skye C. Cleary chats with Luis Jaramillo about her new book on Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy-from-life method

October 11, 2022 • by Skye C. Cleary and Luis Jaramillo

Finding your “authentic self” is often taken to mean: “Let’s turn inward and look for the blueprint that’s going to tell us what decisions we should make and that will make us happy.” But Beauvoir argued that we’re humans who are always growing, always changing....