Join host and exiting New Yorker Timothy Wilcox for an IRL meetup of Interintellect members at the massive Metropolitan Museum of Art. Come meet with community members in New York City, including at least one visiting guest. We will have time to walk, talk, and see incredible art collections. The museum is pay-what-you-wish for NY,…
Join Phil Filippak for the next episode of a series about critical rationalism and major ideas from David Deutsch’s book The Beginning of Infinity. We’ll discuss beauty and its objectivity! Is it possible that all beauty is subject to yet unknown but stringent laws? May all paintings and sculptures and songs be described by some complicated but precise…
Join Celina Maiorano for a casual offline San Francisco social on new year's projects, goals, and more! Where one year meets the next and the land concedes to sea, come reflect on the journey ahead and the trials behind; our projects, our archetypes, our place in the constellation of people and events. This will be…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát for this FREE AND PUBLIC session where we'll discuss all you need to know about hosting online: tone, topic selection, listing, promotion, and audience management. Believe me, no Interintellect host is born with the magical knowledge of how to run a successful, engaging, friendly online salon (or offline social)—but these skills are easy…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for the opening session of Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki. Poetry is a place of solace, a place of mystery, a place where we can delve deeper…
Join host Joseline Yu to explore the nature of war and fate in the heroic epic Iliad, as part of the Western Canon Book Club series. Homer's Iliad pulses with…
Join Mary Harrington and Bronwyn Williams as we discuss boys and girls and the future of us, drawing from gender economics research, lived wisdom, and the scapula-sharp wit in Mary's book, 'Feminism Against Progress,' to unpack where, why and how the quest for freedom and equality between the sexes has become just another set of…
Join Don Watkins of Earthly Idealism and reexamine the New Atheism. What were the New Atheists trying to achieve--and did they succeed or fail? During the early 2000s, the New Atheists dominated the intellectual discussion and seemed to put religion on the defense. Today, though more people than ever self-identify as atheists, leading intellectuals seem to be turning…
Join Alex Criddle for the fourth salon in the Breakthroughs series and explore the evolution and development of human relationships and families. This salon will trace the origin and development of human relationships, understandings of what a family consists of, and the way sex and gender were understood throughout human history in different cultures. Human…
Join Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money and Same As Ever, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát, to explore navigating uncertainty by focusing on what never changes in a changing world. 'The behaviors that never change are history's most powerful lessons, because they preview what to expect in the future.' ~ Morgan Housel, Same…
Join Montessori Infant and Toddler Guide, Beatriz Freitas, and explore the Montessori perspective on newborns! Whether you’re expecting a child, already have one or more, this salon is designed for you! In this session we will discuss the experiences of the infant, from prenatal life to birth and the first few months, so we can understand…
Join host Eloy Fisher for an IRL get-together in Washington DC. Whether you're a long-time member or new to the community, let's seize the opportunity to meet up and explore some of the works in the museum. I like to visit Voltaire's bust every now and then to remind myself of his lifelong motto: to…
