The Quest For Utopia
Forever over the rainbow, Utopia is the ideal place that does not yet exist. But what are the origins of our belief in utopias and why do visions of a better world so often descend into hell on earth? This is Episode 1 of the Liverpool Salon’s Utopia series of public discussions hosted at the Athenaeum Liverpool in 2022/23.
Has LGBTQ+ Pride Run Out of Road?
Michael McDonough and Ethan James Carroll discuss LGBTQ Pride and its relevance in modern culture. Has it all become a bit too decadent and exclusionary for those who don’t want to camp it up? And can Pride’s claims to social progressiveness still be justified in the face of rampant commercialism?
Liverpool’s Northern History
Liverpolitan Editor, Paul Bryan, talks to Brian Groom, journalist and author of Northerners: A History, about Liverpool’s peculiar place in northern culture. We talk architecture, wealth, slavery, scouse exceptionalism and our rivalry with Manchester.