Renée DiResta, expert in (mis)information in our digital age, joins Interintellect founder Anna Gát to explore how propaganda shapes our reality and what can be done to counter its influence.…
Join Jacob Huber, founder of Revolutionary Character, to discuss why and how to rest appropriately and support each other in doing so rather than guilting each other into excessive (and unproductive!) grinding! We…
Fellow Interintellect host Katrina Dela Cruz invites you to a salon of inter(intellect)mingling, finding new friends and rediscovering old ones, in group convos and 1:1s conversations! The Great Interintellect Mingle…
Want 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…
Meet fellow seekers and thinkers at public online Interintellect salons. Find new friends "backstage" among Interintellect community members at our in-person events and in our online forum. Learn deeply from…
We 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…
Hosted 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…
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…
Want 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…
Legitimacy, 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 force to make the one who represents the majority best its chief executive. Mass media, educational institutions, and communities of worship all play important roles…
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…
