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Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I'm your host, Iona Italia, the managing editor at Quillette.

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social events. My guest this week is Anna Gatt. Anna is a Hungarian emigre who is now happily

based in New York, a former poet, screenwriter and playwright.

In 2016, Anna founded Inter-Intelect, a platform that allows people to create discussion forums, talks followed by Q&A sessions, and more informal meetups, both online and in-person person. Interintellect now hosts one or two

salons every day and subscribers the platform number in the tens of thousands. Anna is also the host of

the podcast, the Hope Axis. She has had an extraordinarily varied, kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan and intellectually

rich life. We discussed Hungary and the Orban regime, Girardian triangulation, elective affinities,

finite and infinite games, linguistics, Christianity, Accelerationism, Autis, Love Sex and Milan Kundera, and many other topics.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Anna Gatt.

I am going to talk to you about inter-intellect later, but I'd like to start with a bit,

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