Weekly Issues

2022

Week of February 24

  • Ukraine
  • Revising the Future
  • Letter from Prison
  • COVID and Its Discontents

Week of February 17

  • Sexual Harassment and Higher Ed
  • Remembering bell hooks
  • Campus versus City
  • Loneliness
  • In Memoriam

Week of February 10

  • Abolition
  • Classics Revisited
  • Money Matters
  • ???

Week of February 3

  • How to Confront an Autocrat
  • The Politics of Prison
  • Postcolonial Criticism
  • Overtime
  • Our Columnists

Week of January 27

  • American Myths
  • Political Animals

Week of January 20

  • SPECIAL ISSUE: DEVA Woodly’s Reckoning

Week of January 13

  • Give Us Government, Please!
  • Populism Versus Democracy
  • Surviving a Pandemic
  • How Corporations Stole the Cat Nap
  • Learning to Forgive
2021

Week of December 16

  • The Work of a Fiction Writer
  • Life of a Cartoon
  • New York City Swim
  • Professional Parenting
  • Give a Book, Not a Gift Basket

Week of December 9

  • BIG IDEAS
  • FABRICATING THE PAST
  • WITCH HUNTS
  • JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA

Week of December 2

  • Letter from New York City
  • Omicron
  • Ahmaud Arbery
  • Black History
  • Shopping for Democracy

Week of November 25

  • Reading with gratitude
This week, Public Seminar is giving thanks for the essays we’ve loved over the past year.
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