ideas Small Rooms, Big Ideas: The Seminar at 100 A table, twelve chairs, and a century of arguments. Why the seminar refuses to scale. M Mara Okonkwo November 9, 2025 · 4 min read · Small Rooms, Big Ideas. Photo: Khanahmedsam / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Longform's reader requires JavaScript. The full text of this story is available through our content service.