🚨 UPDATED
Excited to announce that The Piraeus will be teaming up with Oyarsa to host our 1st ever in-person event Monday, October 19 at noon in Nashville (afternoon of the 4th Thiel lecture)!
"Building on the Cultural Frontier" will be a lunch and panel discussion featuring leaders from our rapidly growing grassroots movement—citizen activists, independent scholars, and entrepreneurs working to revitalize Western culture and education outside of mainstream institutions.
The panel will introduce you to these leaders and their projects, discuss their visions for the future, and show you how to get involved.
Nick Gallo (@nickmgallo) will lead the discussion with the following panelists:
FROM NASHVILLE:
➤ Davis Hunt (@vrgldh), founder of The Pamphleteer (@realpamphleteer ), "Nashville's Alt-Daily," that aims to combat corporate and progressive media domination, and, through its in-person events, connect Nashville's citizen activists. Davis will discuss his vision for building grassroots coalitions, facilitating local civic engagement, and inspiring citizen activists in other cities.
➤ Warren Steury(@NWSteury), founder of Meriwether Academy (@meriwetheracdmy), a Nashville-based men's group dedicated to reviving the ideal of the American man. Warren will discuss his vision for building men's civic organizations and boys' schools centered around classical and outdoor education.
FROM OUT OF STATE:
➤ Michael Millerman (@millerman), founder of The Millerman School, an online school of political philosophy that teaches Strauss, Heidegger, Plato, and others, to discuss his vision of enriching political and philosophical discourse outside academia.
➤ Paul McNeil (@pbdmcniel), founder of The Wagon Box Inn (@thewagonbox) in Story, Wyoming, to discuss his vision of connecting online communities at real-world hubs, like the Wagon Box, which can serve as a model for similar projects across the country.
➤ Tyler Mathews (@tchevezmathews), founder of Oyarsa (@oyarsanetwork), a St. Louis-based men's group to discuss his vision of connecting grassroots cultural groups with local business owners and entrepreneurs, and how St. Louis can serve as a model for other cities.
Light lunch will be served before the panel, which will be followed by a social hour to connect with others before the Thiel event.
Paid subscribers to The Piraeus and members of Oyarsa get a 20% discount code.
Look forward to seeing you all there!
A lot of energy forming in the central time zone. Excited to help host an event in Nashville ahead of the final Thiel Antichrist lecture, among good company.
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Thank you to everyone who attended and made this event possible.
AMERICAN FICTION / SAINT LOUIS October 10, 2026
Readings by Theodore Judson John Jay Stancliff
With Will Ballard The Prudentialist
Sponsored by Ark Press · Passage Press · Charles Haywood
Presented by
Oyarsa
Farthest Heaven
Book Club From Hell
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THEODORE JUDSON (@PassagePress/@ark_press)
AUTHOR OF FITZPATRICK’S WAR & THE TIMERMAN
JOHN JAY STANCLIFF (@FarthestHeaven)
AUTHOR OF PIERCE & FEDBOOK
THE HISTORIAN OF OUR FUTURE & THE KNIGHT OF FAITH
LIVE IN ST. LOUIS
SAT OCT 10 - DOORS 7PM
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If you love America; if you hate the Antichrist; if you enjoy both sincere and performative male reading; if you love the Midwest, the West, the Mountain West, old heroes of good example, and a cold drink with the lads; if you love God and believe we will one day occupy the Moon; if you believe that where two or three are gathered, the Spirit is there, then you should attend this event.
Buy a ticket. Make a trip across the country. Ask me for a discount code because of our mutuals. It's that important.
No one has ever seen Theodore Judson. Ever. No one has seen the power of the Spirit of St. Louis. But I have, and I will show it to you.
If you attend.
An evening of AMERICAN FICTION
- Theodore Judson (@PassagePress/@ark_press)
- John Jay Stancliff (@saracen_heath/@FarthestHeaven)
- @MrPrudentialist, emcee
- @20gaShotgun, founder Farthest Heaven
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- 10/9 drinks with the authors/organizers
- 10/10 discussion, mingling, drinks
In association with Farthest Heaven & Book Club From Hell (@bookclubhell666)
For the“production of good human lives through a project of collective education and edification.” The soil of St Louis holds the memories of generations of great men and women and is calling to be worked again.
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The first of a long public series of salons, talks, debates, hangouts, etc., with the goal of revivifying intellectualism and entering the "laboratory of ideas" in St. Louis MO. This Tuesday with the infamous @jmrphy
For @aeonmag—I wrote about the St. Louis Hegelians, the Illinois Platonists, and what these associations (and others like them) can teach us what philosophical study might look like after the university: https://t.co/xlefU0jlLn
The first of a long public series of salons, talks, debates, hangouts, etc., with the goal of revivifying intellectualism and entering the "laboratory of ideas" in St. Louis MO. This Tuesday with the infamous @jmrphy