"The truth is the more unique and personalized the books you read, the more original a thinker you will become." My new piece: The Sovereign Reader american-innocence.com/p/the-sovere...
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Building your "personal culture" in America, one book at a time.
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Private Kingdoms - my new essay on my new blog 'American Innocence' about life and observations in America. american-innocence.com/p/private-ki... In this post I write about private vs public life, and why having an undemocratic private life is actually better for liberal democracy:
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Why you should make the public more democratic, and your home less.
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New blog -'American Innocence'- about my new life in America: observations about culture, politics, way of life. In my first post I ask: if tragedies are so hard to watch because we feel a lot of it is avoidable why don't we have the same defenses in politics? american-innocence.com/p/tyranny-as...
Tyranny as Tragedy
I'm starting a new blog.
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Shiny new YouTube channel for my podcast The Hope Axis! My most recent guests included @katrosenfi.bsky.social @alicegribbin.bsky.social @sariazout.bsky.social -- great thinkers coming and sharing what makes them hope. This is very definite optimism 💎 Come build with us! www.youtube.com/@hopeaxis
The Hope Axis with Anna Gát
The Hope Axis is a thought-provoking podcast hosted by Anna Gát, founder of Interintellect and an angel investor based in New York City. The show explores "what is there in the world to hope and work ...
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The good Joel Whitney and Tara Isabella Burton in-person in New York -- July 24! interintellect.com/salons/radic...
Exporting Political Extremes: NYC in-person salon with Joel Whitney, author of 'Flights: Radicals on the Run'
Interintellect in-person salon at Maxwell Tribeca with Joel Whitney, hosted by Tara Isabella Burton and Anna GátJournalist and historian Joel Whitney—author of Flights: Radicals on the Run and co-foun...
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Are you an avid reader who is also deeply interested in how the real world works? Coming up on Interintellect! The Economics of Middlemarch: A Literary Salon With A Natasha Joukovsky, Rohit Krishnan, Peter Isztin, and me! interintellect.com/salons/the-e...
The Economics of Middlemarch: A Literary Salon
Like Jane Austen before her, George Eliot is an economist's novelist.Her characters respond to incentives, ponder tradeoffs, act strategically, evaluate each other's marriage market value, and--of gre...
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Come, this will be fun! interintellect.com/salons/it-li...
Is Literature Dead? A debate with James Marriott and Henry Oliver
The English Literature degree is dead, or dying. No-one now reads the classics. So argued Times columnist James Marriott in his recent New Statesman review of Stefan Collini's new book. No-one reads b...
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My upcoming poetry picnic in San Francisco 📖 One of our key cities for in-person Interintellect communities, I can't wait to be visiting next week 🌁 Come along and read poetry and talk about America with us! interintellect.com/salons/walt-...
Building something new at Interintellect which is so new and amazing that I am completely PSYCHED! Hard to sleep and can’t wait to show everybody! For now only community and select investors… Great to know there is so much hope and opportunity for bringing people together.
On Thursday, Interintellect goes ABUNDANCE! A deep dive into how to do the economy better 🍇 Hosted by @ericara.bsky.social | In partnership with Otterpine Books helping indie authors worldwide! interintellect.com/salons/gener...
Generation Hope: How Inclusive Economics can help us thrive— A conversation with Arunjay Katakam
Climate crisis, economic instability, and vast income inequality across the globe — it is easy to get discouraged by the scale and complexity of the challenges we face. A new book argues there is also...
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My next free, public, online training session for salon hosts -- on Interintellect or wherever you're planning to host a wonderful conversation where everybody has a great time. (The sculpture depicts the 3 goddesses of Free, Public, and Online) interintellect.com/salons/learn...
Learn the Art of Salon Hosting: FREE Training with Anna Gát
Friendly, well-guided conversations are harder to find today, whether at work, in community groups, or online. Learning to host a salon helps you bring people together, keep discussion on track, and m...
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The great Noor Siddiqui of Orchid will be joining me for a SuperSalon on fertility tech with Dr. Lan Dao 🤖👶🏽🚀 Online! Embryo screening, artificial wombs, and other technological breakthroughs helping women conceive and have healthy babies. Come and join us! interintellect.com/salons/the-f...
The Future of Fertility: From Genetic Screening to Artificial Wombs
Online Interintellect salon with Orchid Health founder-CEO Noor Siddiqui and Women's Health Fund founder Lan Dao. Hosted by Anna Gát.Falling birth-rates and later parenthood have pushed fertility scie...
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Does AI have a place in academia? If so, how should professors, students, administrators use it? If it's overall bad, how can we avoid the purported loss of literacy and critical thinking skills it might deprive us of? Join our second great Interintellect debate: interintellect.com/salons/cheat...
Cheat Sheet or Cognitive Superpower: Does AI have a place in academia? — With Hollis Robbins and Anastasia Berg
Join us for our second Interintellect Debate on an urgent and fascinating topic! Expect a special twist on our online salon format, moderated by Interintellect founder Anna Gát...Large-language models...
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My upcoming 6 part Interintellect salon series on how to have good taste in the age of AI. Selling out very fast so if you want a ticket, grab it now: interintellect.com/series/how-t...
How to Have Good Taste: Recognizing Beauty as the Human Superpower in the Age of AI
Six in-depth Interintellect salons, hosted by Interintellect founder Anna GátTaste is the oldest filter—and the subtlest technology—we possess. Long before algorithms served us recommendations, human ...
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this interintellect chat was really good, (@interintellect.bsky.social) Anna is such an excellent interviewer (@annagat.bsky.social) youtu.be/ozikgOhOeUM
Renée DiResta: How Modern Propaganda Shapes Our Reality & How to Fight It
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Agnes Callard on The Hope Axis last night 💐 We talked about her new book Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life 📖 The two Hungarian girls in stripes discussed love & ethics, truth & ignorance, paradoxes & beliefs—and Kant, Aristotle, Mill, Nussbaum, William James—and of course Socrates....
The great Dan Williams is coming up on Interintellect! interintellect.com/salons/human...
Humanities Status Games: Philosopher Dan Williams vs. Critical Theory
Philosopher and Sussex lecturer Dan Williams—author of the Substack Conspicuous Cognition and a sharp critic of academic group-think—joins Interintellect founder Anna Gát and attendees to discuss why ...
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I'm continuing my free online host training sessions! Come and learn the art of conversation ... through conversation: - how to inspire openness and insight in your group? - how to ensure everybody gets to share their views? - how to find a great topic? interintellect.com/salons/the-a...
The Art of Salon Hosting: FREE Training with Anna Gát
You're warmly invited to join Interintellect founder Anna Gát for an inspiring host training session! Together we'll explore the art of creating welcoming spaces and facilitating unforgettable convers...
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Just hosted this week’s host training for the new cohort of amazing Interintellect salon hosts 🤩🥳🦄 We talked about challenge and inclusivity, nonpolitical spaces and balance, over-preparedness and relaxation, book chapters and conflict—books, moms, and more!
My Tocqueville reading group continues on Interintellect: May 24, 12pm EDT Come and join: this time we'll look at the relationship between democracy and morality! Very timely. The reading is ~100 pages and you can find a copy online. Limited spots: interintellect.com/salons/democ...
Democracy and Morality: Tocqueville Reading Group with Anna Gát
Our reading group for Tocqueville's Democracy in America continues! Session 5.Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville is a seminal work of political philosophy and sociology, offering a nuanced ...
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Dear @olgakhazan.bsky.social at an Interintellect salon just now talking about her new book ME BUT BETTER and the scientific theory and evidence for changing one’s personality. We talked about happiness and neuroticism, ambition and immigration, motherhood and depression—psychedelics, anger
Dear @olgakhazan.bsky.social at an Interintellect salon just now talking about her new book ME BUT BETTER and the scientific theory and evidence for changing one’s personality. We talked about happiness and neuroticism, ambition and immigration, motherhood and depression—psychedelics, anger
We're reading Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' on Interintellect chapter by chapter -- hard to imagine a timelier book! interintellect.com/salons/tocqu...
Tocqueville Reading Group: Democracy In America PART FOUR
Session 4 reading:Volume Two:Part Two - Influence if Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americans In the Mansfield/Winthrop translation this is p479 to p532See you there xxFor Interintellect membershi...
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The one and only TIM MARSHALL will be coming up on Interintellect - in June. Ticket page coming soon. I am beyond excited -- Prisoners of Geography is a huge favourite of mine, and now it has been updated for its 10th anniversary! A book for our times...
I'll be training salon hosts on April 23: free online event! Come along ... interintellect.substack.com/p/salon-host...
Salon Host Training with Anna Gát
April 23: Free - Public - Online
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Grab your copy of 'Middlemarch' because it truly is the book of our times! A novelist/financial analyst, and economist, and a venture capitalist walk into a bar ... Well, not a bar: a salon. *The Economics of Middlemarch* Join the online discussion here: interintellect.com/salons/the-e...
The Economics of Middlemarch: A Literary Salon
Like Jane Austen before her, George Eliot is an economist's novelist.Her characters respond to incentives, ponder tradeoffs, act strategically, evaluate each other's marriage market value, and--of gre...
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The great Samuel Hammond is starting a Hegel and AI series on Interintellect 3 parts of course... Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Online and open to all! Tickets: interintellect.com/salons/hegel...
Hegel and the Second Enlightenment
While the first Enlightenment emphasized abstract reason and empirical verification, Hegel and his successors recast reason as a dynamic, historically informed process of self-correction. In Robert Br...
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The great @jonnelledge.bsky.social on Interintellect right now talking about his excellent and TIMELY book "A History of the World in 47 Borders" - Hosted by cartographer Tom Fish. Good stuff. Video soon!
I want to refresh my feed and follow some amazing people I never heard of. Drop your recommendations! Do you know a great female founder in aerospace or hard tech? Exciting young philosopher? Good emerging novelist? Historian who knows where it's at? Blogger with bold ideas?
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