PublicSquare convenes highly informative and interactive seminars led by distinguished commentators that explore innovative solutions to the critical issues of our time. Journalists, writers, researchers, scholars, and activists are invited to analyze key policy issues ranging from climate change to economic inequality, health care to immigration, and human rights to foreign affairs by focusing upon the historical context, social values, cultural frameworks, and political climate of which they are emblematic. Participants are drawn from a cross-section of elected representatives, community leaders, members of clergy, nonprofit activists, state/local government agency staff, plus faculty and students from institutions of higher education. Prior to each seminar attendees receive carefully selected readings pertaining to the issue under discussion. Neither partisan nor sectarian, PublicSquare promises to reinstate the kind of reasoned conversation about political affairs that has largely disappeared from American civic life and that is essential to the perpetuation of our democracy.