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One more incredible season on @interintellect_!
We're a cultural institution dedicated to the most important public conversations of our times. Join any of our incredible salons to share, learn, challenge yourself, make new friends, and talk to the greatest minds of the world. No culture war -- only the best ideas.
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A society can become safer and still leave its citizens worse off.
In "Worth the Risk", economist @AllisonSchrager examines how the fear of failure reshapes our ambitions, from the businesses we never start to the lives we never dare to build.
Join her and host @HalderAlaka for a conversation about the myths that make caution look like wisdom.
interintellect.com/salons/wo…
In "Women in Love", D. H. Lawrence gives us characters who would rather wage war on one another than settle for an ordinary life.
Their romances become battlegrounds for competing visions of freedom, power, and what two independent souls can possibly owe each other.
Join Interintellect CEO @TheAnnaGat for an online book club on a novel that remains startling in its refusal to make human relationships easily resolved.
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In this enlightening SuperSalon, @fortelabs and @visakanv explored how transformational ideas have evolved.
While the packaging is more modern and tech-friendly today, the core pursuit--empowerment, agency, and facing your fears--remains timeless.
Political power is built through ambition, proximity, and an instinct for opportunity, but history has its own timing, and even the most carefully constructed ascent can be undone by forces beyond one’s control.
Join professor @fstflofscholars for the next chapter on the discussion of Robert Caro’s "The Path to Power", where Lyndon Johnson’s political fortunes take an unexpected turn.
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A career gives structure to our days and often decides where our energy goes. When that structure falls away, a more personal question takes its place: what do we want our time to amount to, and who else might it serve?
Join @DaleYuzuki for a conversation about the freedom, uncertainty, and quiet responsibility of deciding what comes next after full-time work.
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At this SuperSalon, author @krishnanrohit hosted scientist and author @arbesman for a conversation about "The Magic of Code", Samuel’s book exploring the wonders and weirdness of computation.
Together, they examined how computational ideas extend far beyond computer science, offering unexpected connections to language, biology, philosophy, and human cognition, and revealing new ways to understand the world through the logic of code.
Whatever happens in the world, there is already a great book about it 😌
#YouCanSeeEverything
An underrated book that's very relevant. Caused some scandals in its time:
Stefan Heym imagines the Book of David as an authorized document(ary) commissioned by King Solomon. Not Nathan, but Ethan the Scribe is hired to be embedded at the Palace, interview people, write.
Officially Ethan can write anything -- but of course the King hopes for some results, manipulates, pressures. Poor Ethan.
Sometimes aware, sometimes oblivious, he goes and pokes, explores, and uncovers a lot of wild details. People say weird things to him. Misdirections. Contradictions. Laughable attempts to evade him. The prophet Samuel seems to have been on drugs?? Lots of hashish around... Were Saul and David lovers ("he healed him, but not with his lyre")? -- by Jove, can it be that all these people are just like us? And why does everybody seem to be lying...? And how can real love still develop and inspire The Song of Songs??
I enjoyed this book a lot. Very fun. Often think about it. Recommended.
JUST LISTED.📅
If you grew up watching Spielberg, "E.T." probably takes you back to a very particular kind of childhood. Bikes flying across the sky, adults who never quite understood, and an alien who needed a friend as much as a way home.👽🚲
Join @TheAnnaGat for a conversation about Spielberg, the movies we grew up with, and why "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" still feels like something worth revisiting.
interintellect.com/salons/a-…
What a remarkable Supersalon we had with @lea_ypi and Irina Dumitrescu, exploring "Indignity: A Life Reimagined" and the tangled relationship between family memory, historical truth, and political history.
From secret service archives to the intimate stories that shape our understanding of the past, we reflected on the dignity of those who came before us and the responsibility of telling their stories.
Thank you to Lea, Irina, and everyone who joined us for this memorable evening.📚️❤️
Every generation inherits a set of promises. Gen Z inherited the fine print. From the economics of adulthood to shifting ideas of success, faith, and ambition, the terms of growing up are being renegotiated.
Join @interintellect and @feeonline in Manhattan with @krishnanrohit, @AllisonSchrager, @FOMO_sacer, @Abi0lvera, @shadihamid, and @JraissatiJorge, moderated by @dgrcosta and @theannagat, for a conversation that goes beyond the generational clichés.
interintellect.com/salons/th…
In our SuperSalon "Is Personality Change Possible?", award-winning journalist @olgakhazan joined our CEO @TheAnnaGat for a conversation on personality change and her book "Me, But Better."
Olga shares how taking an improv class taught her to surrender control, trust others to step in, and realize that things usually work out fine when you do not have to do everything yourself.
Writing doesn’t always begin with inspiration. Sometimes it begins with an interruption, a challenge, or the feeling that something inside you needs to find its way onto the page.
Join host @MrJFMoreno to write your first piece and see where it takes you.
interintellect.com/salons/a-…
How did the Ottoman Empire’s final years give rise to the modern Middle East? In "The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East", historian @simonmontefiore traces the rulers, revolutionaries, and ideas that shaped a region.
Join writer and host Irina Dumitrescu for a conversation on the history behind today’s headlines.
interintellect.com/salons/wh…
In our SuperSalon, host DJ Scruggs sat down with political writer @lindsey_brink to break down why our society feels stuck.
While 20 to 30 percent of people get intellectually challenging jobs with real autonomy and intrinsic rewards, most face a daily grind of stress and precarity that blocks personal growth and genuine connection.
We once worried that technology would isolate us. Now it offers to listen, reassure us, and tell us exactly what we want to hear.
MIT professor @STurkle has spent more than 40 years studying our relationships with machines.
In this SuperSalon, she joins host @weschow to explore the strange new territory of AI companionship, where the performance of intimacy meets the messiness of being human.
interintellect.com/salons/ar…
Mars is not just an engineering problem. It’s a test of how well we understand the human body, the limits of resilience, and what happens when earth is no longer within reach.
Writer and editor @bsgallagher sits down with biomedical engineer Mark Shelhamer, former NASA Chief Scientist for the Human Research Program, to examine the assumptions behind human spaceflight and what we’re still getting wrong about life beyond Earth.👽🚀
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In this Interintellect SuperSalon, psychologist and author @drvantongeren joined our founder @TheAnnaGat for a conversation about the search for meaning and purpose after leaving religion.
They explored the psychological challenges of moving beyond traditional belief systems, how people navigated uncertainty in the absence of established religious frameworks, and what it took to rebuild a sense of meaning and fulfillment in an increasingly secular world.
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil believed that truly seeing another requires something rare: the willingness to set ourselves aside.
Join host Liv Li for a philosophical journey through Weil’s writings and the paintings that demand more than a passing glance.
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Markets aren't the only way to coordinate, and states aren't the only way to govern. Elinor Ostrom spent her career showing what happens when we take collective intelligence seriously.
In the final salon of the series, Interintellect founder @TheAnnaGat explores the thinker who challenged the boundaries of economic thought and reimagined what cooperation can accomplish.
interintellect.com/salons/re…
