Good Society Readings
Wrestle with big ideas. On your own, or in a small circle.
An old way, for a new age.
Almost 2,500 years ago, Socrates taught by asking questions. Students questioned each other and argued their way toward clearer thinking. Learning meant investigating an idea, working out what you thought, then defending it against someone who disagreed.
Modern education has changed this. We now read to remember and share what we remember for a grade.
Good Society Readings is a space to think for yourself again. You read something worth wrestling with, work out where you stand, then discuss it with a group of peers. There is no lecture and no prescribed answers. Just good questions and real discussion.
Learning this way is hard and that friction is the whole point. Questioning what you read, holding ideas in tension and discussing them with people who think differently than you do - these are the skills we need for this fast paced, polarised, AI-driven world.