This week, we tried an experiment: a Substack live event! Matthew Gasda wrote a popular article about Romanticism, his contribution to an ongoing debate. Samuel Kimbriel had a few disagreements with Gasda’s piece. In the spirit of Wisdom of Crowds, we hosted our first-ever live-streamed Substack debate.

It went pretty well! We hope to host more.

By popular demand, here is a video recording of that debate. Please continue the discussion in the comments below!

— Santiago Ramos, executive editor

Required Reading:

* Matthew Gasda, “A Few Doubts About Neo-Romanticism” (WoC).

* CrowdSource: “Hopeful Romantics” (WoC).

* Ted Gioia, “Notes Toward a New Romanticism” (The Honest Broker).

* Ross Barkan, “The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms” (Guardian).

Recommendations:

Matthew Gasda:

* Terence Malick, To the Wonder (YouTube).

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (Amazon).

* Any biography of Goethe (Amazon).

Samuel Kimbriel:

* Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (Poets.org).

* Novalis, Hymns to the Night (Amazon).

Santiago Ramos:

* Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Concerto Number 4, Second Movement (YouTube).

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