Public Seminar Competitors

"The Atlantic will be the organ of no party or clique, but will honestly endeavor to be the exponent of what its conductors believe to be the American idea." —James Russell Lowell, November 1857 For more than 150 years, The Atlantic has shaped the national debate on politics, business, foreign affairs, and cultural trends.

Slate is a daily online magazine and podcast network that helped invent the voice of the web. Founded in 1996, Slate is a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture. Slate’s strong editorial voice and witty take on current events have been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Slate’s podcast network, established in 2005 with the launch of Political Gabfest, produces more than 20 podcasts, including Slow Burn, Culture Gabfest, What Next, Decoder Ring and more. Slate.com reaches more than 25M unique visitors and averages more than 40M pageviews every month. Slate's podcast network garnered more than 190 million downloads in 2022.

The Paris Review is a literary quarterly founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V.âS. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly. It has since become one of the world's leading outlets for emerging and established writers. The Review's highly regarded "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bishop and Vladimir Nabokov, and this series has been called "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world."