To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I finished Entangled Life 
, great book to give an introduction to the lay man about fungus. I particularly enjoyed the chapters about mycorrhizal networks and amateur mycologists (many of them were these huge fungus neurodivergents whose enthusiasm was quite contagious).
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I've been reading a lot about foreign policy, but to be honest nothing has been compelling enough to impart here. Mostly it's been literature on populism, but frankly a lot of it is written by communists so they all think you're huffing paint as a fascist if you say "Maybe populism keeps getting more popular because political elites aren't beholden or accountable to the people anymore." I'm trying to find out what area in foreign policy I'll take up during my PhD, which usually you decide before you get in but I'm special.
That and the Bible. Again I struggle through the density, but I enjoy reading something as culturally iconic.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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