Please join the Russell Kirk Center for a three-week virtual discussion of the cultural, intellectual, and political role played by coffeehouse life in 18^th century London. This theme has been inspired by Leo Damrosch’s The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age.

We will consider how one club in particular inspired Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson and invented modern acting, contemporary economics, literary and dramatic criticism, political debate, classical painting, the first great biography, and so much more! As Josef Pieper once said, leisure is the basis of culture. The coffeehouse has made something of a comeback in our time. Join us for this free webinar and enjoy learning more about the cultural significance of the world’s first leisurely coffee society.