Chicago IRL: Downtown Walk and Talk
ChicagoWe will wander around the Magnificent Mile and Navy Pier and talk about Chicago’s history and its future. Possibly convince me to move here! Did the fire of 1871 pave…
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Cycles of Crisis: Past, Present, and Future
OnlineHosted by DJ Scruggs, a kinda sorta tech bro who is worried about how political rhetoric in the United States has become ever more apocalyptic since his first presidential vote in 1988. In my lifetime, apocalyptic political rhetoric was mostly a right wing phenomenon driven by fundamentalist Christian ideas of prophecy. In the last 10…
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Austin IRL: The Places That We Long For
Join writer Patricia Hurducas from The Flâneurs Project in this IRL salon to dive into a conversation about the places that we long for. What are the places that we…
Sex and Gender: Barbie’s Philosophical World
OnlineWant to better appreciate Greta Gerwig’s highbrow screenwriting, or been wanting to read some philosophy but need a bubblegum pink excuse? Join philosopher Ryan Miller for eleven weeks as we read and…
$20.00
Ideas of Power — Celebrity, Authority, and Faith in an Election Year
New York NYLegitimacy, cooption, retaliation: the three pillars of power are never more up for debate than in a year when a country elects its new leaders, when it exerts its democratic…
The American Millennium: Discussion with Packy McCormick and Anna Gát
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…
$25.00
The History of Social Justice with Musa al-Gharbi
OnlineJoin 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…
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The Power of Ideas: Barbie’s Philosophical World
OnlineHow are you here? You’re like an idea. A great idea. Sasha assumes, like most of us, that ideas are impoverished abstractions of material reality. Plato, however, held the opposite view—called idealism—in which ideas are more real than their mere material instantiations. In his dialogue Phaedo, set as a last discussion with Socrates before his execution, Plato…
$20.00
Redefine Your Ambition
OnlineAre you striving to live someone else's definition of a good life? When you've got an atypical brain, you got to have atypical ambitions. Too often we unintentionally inherit an idea of a good life from our parents, cultural background, peers, and institutions. But it is always possible to reconnect with what would be most…
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The Science of Hidden Motives – With Robin Hanson
OnlineAbout Robin Hanson's book Elephant In the Brain (co-written by Kevin Simler): "Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains are therefore designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to get ahead socially, often by devious means. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The…
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When Life Becomes Art: Fireside Chat with Kiubon Kokko (OSV Film-making Fellow)
OnlineIn 2023, Kiubon Kokko was awarded a $100,000 fellowship grant by O'Shaughnessy Ventures to create a feature documentary about his father's 10-12 hour swim from communist China to Hong Kong in 1973. In this salon, Kiubon will talk about what led to him undertake this project: the challenges he and his family faced in the…
DC IRL: October Meetup in Beautiful Old Town Alexandria
Alexandria, VAJoin us for an in-person Interintellect gathering where curiosity leads the way! As fall settles in and the seasons change, it’s the perfect time to come together in beautiful Old…