Anna Gát

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Private Kingdoms Why you should make the public more democratic, and your home less.

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:

Tyranny as Tragedy I'm starting a new blog.

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...

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 ...

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

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...

The good Joel Whitney and Tara Isabella Burton in-person in New York -- July 24!

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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...

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...

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...

Come, this will be fun!

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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.

Nooooo hahahha omg

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...

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!

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Thanks so much!! @noupside.bsky.social is brilliant!

YouTube video by Interintellect Renée DiResta: How Modern Propaganda Shapes Our Reality & How to Fight It

this interintellect chat was really good, (@interintellect.bsky.social)

Anna is such an excellent interviewer (@annagat.bsky.social)

youtu.be/ozikgOhOeUM

So proud of my beautiful baby 🥰

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....

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 ...

The great Dan Williams is coming up on Interintellect!

interintellect.com/salons/human...

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...

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...

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!

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 ...

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...

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

management classes, making friends as an adult, and improv!

Video coming soon 🥰

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

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...

We're reading Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' on Interintellect chapter by chapter -- hard to imagine a timelier book!

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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...

Salon Host Training with Anna Gát April 23: Free - Public - Online

I'll be training salon hosts on April 23: free online event!

Come along ...

interintellect.substack.com/p/salon-host...

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...

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...