July 10, 2026 | 6:30pm

Middleburg, VA

Join us for an evening of friendship, philosophy, and learning as we engage in the art of meaningful conversation.

Salon topic: What does it mean to be human?

June 14, 2026 | 3pm

Magnolia Vineyards, Amissville, VA

Join us for this special event featuring a talk by esteemed Professor of Philosophy Talbot Brewer (UVA) based on his extraordinary essay “An Economy of Life”.

About this talk: Perhaps nothing is more important to us than love.  Given how badly we desire it, you might at least expect that we would be sure what it is.  But on this question we find the deepest and seemingly most intractable obscurity.  In this talk, Professor Brewer will return to the dialogues of Plato to consider his strange yet compelling idea of love, and suggest that a return to the Platonic idea of love might help us find our way from an economy that disfigures what is best in us to an economy that brings our potentiality fully to life.

June 4, 2026 | 5pm

Middleburg, VA

Come meet new friends, share your perspective, and learn as we engage in the art of meaningful conversation.

Salon topic: Courage and Human Agency

May 26, 2026 | 5:30pm

Warrenton, VA

Join us for this special event featuring a talk by the widely-read and respected writer, teacher, and speaker, Michael Sacasas.

About this talk: The arc of AI bends toward the demoralization of the human person. As AI advances into more and more spheres of human life, we are invited to outsource an ever wider range of human activity to the solicitous technologies that promise freedom, efficiency, convenience, and optimization. But what we are invited to outsource—care, thought, judgment, action—these turn out to be essential to a fully and recognizably human existence, and together they form a virtuous loop that fuels our experience of meaning and purpose. In this talk, we'll explore these various human activities, how they are threatened by AI, and why we must take care to guard their place in our experience.

You can learn more about Michael’s work through his newsletter, The Convivial Society. And by listening to his New York Times interview with Ezra Klein

May 14, 2026 | 5:30pm

Roanoke, VA

Come meet new friends, share your perspective, and learn as we engage in the art of meaningful conversation.

Salon topic: Courage and Human Agency

February 27, 2026 | 5pm

Warrenton, VA

Join us for this special inaugural event featuring a talk by Professor Talbot Brewer (UVA) about the consequences of AI for humanity.