Katherine Dee joins Robin Hanson to explore the phenomenon of cultural drift and its impact on modern society, guided by insights from Robin's research. This is the second episode of… Continue reading Understanding Cultural Drift with Robin Hanson and Katherine Dee
Join the co-hosts of the Have You Ever Considered…? Podcast William Mankelow, a podcast host, speaker, photographer and workshop facilitator, and Tommy Serafinski, an outdoorsman, podcaster and speaker. Where they… Continue reading Reclaiming Your Time and Sanity: The Case for Minimal Media Consumption
Join philosopher Agnes Callard, Interintellect founder Anna Gát, and Irina Dumitrescu, writer and professor of English medieval studies, and explore the dynamics of intellectual and emotional connections outside traditional family… Continue reading A Sentimental Education: Navigating Chosen Families, Mentors, and Lovers
Clerks, La Haine, Breaking the Waves, Jurassic Park... Were the 1990s a golden age for cinema, or are we just nostalgic? Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát - who worked as… Continue reading Syrup, Patriotism, Real Feelings: What Made 90s Cinema Special?
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. Don't miss out! Join this thought-provoking discussion featuring Renée DiResta, author of the groundbreaking book Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality. In…
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… Continue reading Austin IRL: The Places That We Long For
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…
Let's read Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World and it’s utopian counterpart Island and discuss the fine line between dystopia and utopia. In the former, drugs are used for numbing and self-medication, in…
In the late 19th century, two priests journeyed into the mountains of Tibet discovering a monastic community previously unknown to the Western world. Their travelogues inspired Shangri-La, the Buddhist paradise in James Hilton's 1937 novel Lost Horizon, as well as Aldous Huxley's Island, and the work of Alan Watts. For the first time, Buddhist philosophies… Continue reading Shangri-La: Buddhist Dreamscapes in the Western Imagination
