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May 13 2026

📜 History Featured

Mary Beard: Talking Classics — The Shock of the Old

Classicist Mary Beard explores why the ancient world still grips our imaginations, arguing that its strangeness is its greatest gift to modern thought.

📍 The 92nd Street Y, New York 🕖 7:00 PM EST

Beard is one of the rare scholars who can make you feel the strangeness of the ancient world rather than its familiarity. Her argument that antiquity's real value is its foreignness — not its relevance — is worth two hours of anyone's evening.

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May 18 2026

⚡ Technology Featured

Trevor Paglen: The Lizard People Are Here!

Artist Trevor Paglen delivers a performance-lecture at the Guggenheim tracing conspiracies, AI, psyops, and the manipulation of human perception from the CIA to tech platforms.

📍 Guggenheim Museum, New York 🕖 6:30 PM EST

Paglen has spent years photographing secret military bases, undersea data cables, and NSA-linked satellite constellations. When he asks why rational minds are vulnerable to algorithmic manipulation, he's asking from inside the infrastructure itself.

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May 23 2026

🗳️ Politics Featured

Kimberlé Crenshaw: Backtalker — In Conversation with Afua Hirsch

The legal scholar who coined intersectionality tells her life story in conversation with Afua Hirsch, introduced by Thandiwe Newton, at Queen Elizabeth Hall.

📍 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 🕖 2:00 PM BST

Crenshaw gave American law and activism the concept of intersectionality — and has spent decades defending it from institutional and political attack. Afua Hirsch is one of the few British interlocutors with the depth to match her.

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