On an evening in October, Mr. Begue joined 17 other students around a long wooden table at BISR’s white-brick office space in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo.
The group read texts like “Woodcutters” and “Heldenplatz,” while snacking on corn chips and sipping boxed wine.
“At our core is the conviction that the idea that people are anti-intellectual is false,” Ajay Singh Chaudhary, the institute’s executive director, said.
Mr. Chaudhary, then a graduate student at Columbia University, had dreamed of an alternative to traditional academia while preparing to teach Columbia’s Core curriculum.
I always wish I got a chance to study, you know, Aristotle or Plato,’” Mr. Chaudhary said.
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