Muslim, Christian, atheist... Join Thomas Arnold and Haider Al-Mosawi as they explore the relationships between rationality, rationalization, and religion in this salon, which is part of a new Comparative Religion salon track. Rationality begins with looking at evidence to draw a conclusion, whereas rationalization begins with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it.…
Interintellect hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold invite you to their next poetry reading salon, this time with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. "Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. " Whether you've never read it or have considerable history with the poem…
Join hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold as we read Louise Glück's title poem from her remarkable 1982 volume "The Wild Iris." What kind of a flower narrates a poem? What is death, and what life? Where do we find ourselves in these verses? This salon will allow us the time to read, savor, and…
Plagues, sexual taboo, war, ecstatic violence, and the cost of self-knowledge – join Thomas Arnold for the first in this series on Reading Greek Tragedy for a World on Fire, where we will probe the voices and technologies of Greek tragedy for our current moment. The first salon will delve into questions of what Greek …
