Join American journalist and critic Elizabeth Winkler (Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies) and novelist A. Natasha Joukovsky (The Portrait of a Mirror) for a salon exploring the secular religiosity behind… Continue reading Bards & Heretics: Shakespeare and the Psychology of Secular Belief
Join crypto investor Li Jin in conversation with investor and writer Packy McCormick (The Great Online Game) and Harvard economist and poet Zoë Hitzig (Co-author of A Flexible Design for… Continue reading The Philosophy of Crypto – Li Jin with Packy McCormick and Zoë Hitzig
Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. But how did Wilde, who died over a decade before the first feature film, help to make the… Continue reading Wilde in Hollywood, or How the Golden Age Got Naughty
Join OSV fellow, William Zeng, in conversation with quantum researcher Asier Piñeiro Orioli as William discusses his efforts to fund and develop open-source quantum software and hardware! Quantum Computing holds the promise to… Continue reading Open-sourcing the Quantum Revolution with William Zeng
3x startup founder turned exec coach Jason Shen joins creativity expert Herbert Lui for a conversation about how venture-backed startups navigate the uncertain leap from one direction to another in… Continue reading The Path to Pivot: A Conversation with Jason Shen about Conviction, Experimentation, and Venture-Scale Opportunities
Anyone who’s had an argument about politics with a friend may walk away wondering how this friend could possibly hold the beliefs they do. A few self-reflective people might even… Continue reading The Philosophy of Political Beliefs – With Oliver Traldi
Writer Henry Oliver joins researcher Thomas Arnold for a conversation on Henry's new book, Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life. An age… Continue reading Late Bloomers: A Conversation with Henry Oliver About Reinventing Your Life
As science discovers more and more about the universe and human beings, many conclude that free will is an illusion. In 'Free Agents', leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell argues that there is a wealth of evidence to the contrary and presents an evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Join us and discuss the free…
The Free Press reporter and head of strategy Nellie Bowles joins Interintellect founder Anna Gát for a conversation on Bowles' new book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, and the process of undertaking journalist investigation of our culture's strangest and funniest political impulses. Nellie Bowles was previously a reporter at…
Rachel Nuwer, science journalist and author joins Alex Criddle and Michael 't Sas-Rolfes for a discussion of her most recent book: I Feel Love, MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World. Once vilified as a drug that would eat holes in user's brains, MDMA (also known as Molly or Ecstasy) is now…
Join authors of What Are Children For? (and editors at The Point) Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman and novelist/theologian Tara Isabella Burton for a conversation about parenthood, purpose, and the possibility of embracing a human future. What does the future of parenthood look like – and how do we make sense of its sacrifices in the modern world? …
