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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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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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...

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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Legal scholar and public intellectual Cass Sunstein is one of the most passionate defenders of liberal democracy. Celebrating the publishing of his new book - On Liberalism - In Defense of Freedom, co...

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Join The Atlantic's award-winning journalist Olga Khazan for this laid-back online salon on her excellent new book Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change.Together we will debunk...

Updates from founder Anna Gát

Updates from founder Anna Gát

To err may be human and "to forgive, divine," but do we really understand what why we should forgive? Is it about denying conflict and abuse or does it contain a deeper truth about our relationships a...