Joining our community and friends, author and Washington Post columnist Christine Emba discusses her much-awaited new book Rethinking Sex with psychology professor Dr. Isabela Granic. In her vibrant new book, aptly subtitled "A Provocation," the journalist Christine Emba investigates whether the current state of sexual liberation is founded on the right ethics: does our current…
Teens have straight, important questions, but few adults ever give straight answers… until now. Andrew and Isabela are teaming up to share wisdom and demystify the world for teens in this 12-part series. Teens have straight, important questions, but few adults ever give straight answers, in many cases because they don't want to admit that…
Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Brian Ahuja invite you once again to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, of finding friends and rediscovering old ones, in group convos and 1:1s, just the way you like it… The Great Interintellect Mingle is back again! Come meet new friends (and maybe some old friends as well) in the main room as well…
Join Interintellect host and editor Timothy Wilcox along with fellow Interintellects for an afternoon of casual discussion in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. On what should hopefully be a wonderful Spring day, come for a nice outdoor hangout. We can meet and grab food at the recently re-opened Smorgasburg food market (located on the park's Breeze Hill),…
In this salon, Tanya Raj will lead a deep dive discussion on dreams and their various textures. Come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned ~Peter Pan Dreams are an integral part of our lives, whether we pay attention to them or not. As children we have dreamt of indescribable infinities;…
Join members of the “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book club in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of wrestling with a challenging, thought-provoking book with the help of friendly peers’ additional eyes, hearts, minds, and experiences. Maybe you heard about it on Naval's podcast, or perhaps you follow the father of…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of Love with an episode focusing on the Long Nineteenth Century, from the French Revolution to the sinking of the Titanic. The…
Are you interested in the foundational texts and topics that have shaped psychedelic use and research today? Join hosts Alex Criddle and Ava for a monthly series on these fundamental…
Join host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. In this session, we'll end our journey with Beowulf in…
Hi, I am Simon Ohler. After four years of working at Twitch and building a thriving creator community in the German speaking region, I retreated for three years to live and think freely, and to transform into a philosopher and an artist. I’m now joining the ii as a salon host, starting with a mini-series on Living…
Join returning host Scott Davies in a typically wide-ranging and freeform discussion on the idea of liminal spaces, both physical and mental, and the effects these have on our personal lives and society at large. All are welcome and all perspectives are encouraged in this salon. Liminal Spaces are conventionally thought of as physical spaces…
This is the fourth salon in a six part series on Flannery O'Connor and American Catholic fiction, led by Dr. Jennifer Frey, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the philosophy, literature, and theology podcast, Sacred and Profane Love. Flannery O’Connor once wrote that "evil is not a problem…
