INTELLECTUAL HAPPY HOUR
  • In Person

Persona Launch Party: In Defense of Human Nature with Francis Fukuyama

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Date

Fri Sep 11, 2026
6:30pm – 11:30pm EDT

Location

Announced When Registered

It’s time to fight about humanity.

We are launching a new publication—Persona—to have all out debates about humanity’s first principles: what we are and where we are going.

We want arguments with anyone willing to wrestle with first principles: pro-tech founders and anti-tech activists, secularists who believe in trans-human destiny and religious visionaries who believe in intrinsic human dignity.

Join us next Friday, Sept 11 for our launch with Francis Fukuyama defending human nature.

Celebrating his new book—In the Realm of the Last Men—we’ll dig into the primary questions: Is there such a thing as human nature? What should that mean in a world in which we can live an extra two hundred years, or boost our IQ by 150? And what is to become of society in this new age of technological prowess?

Doors – 6:30pm

Live taping – 7:15 – 8:30pm

Party til late