What nineteen students from five countries read, watched and argued about during a week of Socratic seminars at the 2026 Great Connections Summer Seminar in Chicago.
In May 2023 the MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, who went on to share the 2024 Nobel prize in economics, asked a question on Twitter. Friedrich Hayek
A guest post by Allison Quatrini, associate professor of political science at Eckerd College, who spent a week observing the 2026 Great Connections Seminar. “What
What makes an entrepreneur? Ask most people and you’ll hear about capital, connections, or a high tolerance for risk. Ask the economist Israel Kirzner and
The Atlantic’s August cover story, “The End of Reading Is Here” by Rose Horowitch, opens with the most famous catastrophe in intellectual history: the destruction
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