Our mission is to support an engaged citizenry by fostering an open marketplace of ideas and encouraging the productive exchange of political speech. Seriatim was conceived in the winter of 2012 and founded on a simple premise: everyone has a voice. We hope to provide an avenue through which the genuine political speech of undergraduate students may better be heard and shared with the community at
large. Thus, Seriatim was born—an attempt to tangibly create Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s conception of the “marketplace of ideas,” in which different opinions freely compete for the validation of the many. Seriatim uses a three-pronged approach: an online forum where student contributors can lend their voice (Marketplace), the best of which would be published in a semi-annual print journal; Federalist-style anonymous columns written by the Executive Editors and guest writers on pertinent issues (Publius); and a database of political debates happening around Grounds where students can interact with each other in person (Speaker’s Corner). By using academic papers as well as original work, we hope to bring greater meaning to students’ work inside the classroom by making it accessible to a wider audience. We encourage you to contribute to U.Va’s marketplace of ideas, either by submitting a paper you wrote for your politics class or by writing an original article on an issue of your choosing. Jefferson once said of the University, “For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” At Seriatim, we seek to embody this ideal, and we invite you to join us along the way.
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Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.
