Join historian Nadya Williams, alongside theologian Tara Isabella Burton and writer Henry Oliver, to explore the intersection of faith and culture in early Christianity. In her book "Cultural Christians in the Early Church," Nadya Williams challenges the modern assumption that the earliest Christians were uniformly zealous converts. Instead, she reveals that cultural Christians—those who adopted…
Katherine Dee joins Robin Hanson to explore the phenomenon of cultural drift and its impact on modern society, guided by insights from Robin's research. This is the second episode of…
Join Julia Sonnevend and host Anna Gát for a deep dive into the weaponization of charm in politics based on Julia's new book, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics". This salon examines how leaders from Jacinda Ardern to Viktor Orbán use charm to craft their public personas and sway public opinion. Understand the dynamics…
Join philosopher Agnes Callard, Interintellect founder Anna Gát, and Irina Dumitrescu, writer and professor of English medieval studies, and explore the dynamics of intellectual and emotional connections outside traditional family structures, including lovers, mentors, and chosen families. The concept of Eros—defined by Plato as a powerful and often destructive force—has evolved. While historically many viewed…
Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring, joins Interintellect founder Anna Gát to discuss the future of America and the interplay between government and entrepreneurship that he believes will define the next century. Is America on decline? Far from that! Drawing on historical examples and contemporary economic data, Packy McCormick argues that despite political and institutional…
Join sociologist and writer Musa al-Gharbi in conversation with novelist and theologian Tara Isabella Burton about his new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. In We Have Never Been Woke, al-Gharbi argues that “wokeness” can be fruitfully understood as the ruling ideology of an increasingly dominant class of elites: symbolic…
Join host Thomas Arnold with your questions, scenarios, hopes, and fears about AI, as we explore with Julian Togelius author of "Artificial General Intelligence", what the horizon of AI looks like today and what his book might help us notice. Amid so much hype about Artificial General Intelligence (whose arrival is now cast in thousands…
In his book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, David Lay Williams asks us to consider why the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality - and why we keen on ignoring their prescription. Join us to discuss one of the major…
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive…
Join us for an InterIntellect Thanksgiving weekend SuperSalon special with author Sumana Roy about people on the edges, their incredible contributions to knowledge about ourselves and the question of whether one can breakthrough and influence and inspire as someone living on the geographical edge of culture and society. We will navigate the history of provincial…
In Second Chances Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Philips discuss how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation.…
