Our Hosts

What our hosts are reading, thinking about, and discussing on our platform.

Interintellect Hosts Wrote: The Game of Life. The Wonder of Electricity. Love. Tenderness. Governance. AI.

A selection of recent essays by our salon hosts and community members.

Jun 17 • Interintellect and Anna Gát

Why Odysseus Turns Down Immortality

Identity, Endurance, and the Courage to Set Sail

Feb 20 • Grant Mulligan

Reflections on the Telemachy, Books 1-4 of The Odyssey

Mythology as delight, Mentor(ship), and Xenia

Jan 28 • Grant Mulligan

Grant Mulligan: Don’t die without reading the Odyssey

STARTS TONIGHT: "Why I’m hosting an Interintellect salon on a nearly 3,000-year old poem"

Dec 11, 2025 • Interintellect

Paul Franz: Downwardly mobile

On the life and art of Osamu Dazai

Oct 8, 2025 • Interintellect and Paul Franz

Paul Franz: Fighting with sticks

Werner Herzog's acts of faith

Sep 24, 2025 • Interintellect and Paul Franz

Paul Franz: Inspired conflations

Private and impersonal in T. S. Eliot before The Waste Land

Aug 6, 2025 • Interintellect and Paul Franz