The Chit-Chat Club
San Francisco, California
Papers online on this site:
Benet, Thomas A.
Poetry
– An Elusive Task, February 12, 2001
Where
Did the Thunder Go? 2001
Science
101,
September 8, 2008
Thank You, Thank You, February
15, 2011
An Enormous Dog, October 8, 2013
The Way of Words, December 8,
2015
Cruciger, Marc Petty
Postmodernism
– Have We Seen the End of It?, January 10, 2005
How
Little We Know….Or Do We? The Physiology of Romantic Love, April, 2007
Essay
Clubs of the United States, February 9, 2009
Socrates, Would You Like to Join the Chit
Chat Club?, June 13, 2011
Come On! Try It! You Might Like It!,
September 10, 2012
A Breed of Her Own, November 11,
2014
The Magic Pencil, January 10,
2017
Reflections on My Writing, June
11, 2019
Dunkel, Peter
From Aristotle to Newton via Baghdad,
September 11, 2018
Griffin, Noah
The Recruitment,
Deployment, and First Engagement of the Civil War’s Glory Regiment, the
Massachusetts 54th, September 12, 2017
Tuskegee and Other Medical Injustices (presented virtually), May 12, 2020
Hammond, George C.
The Future’s Horizon, March 7.
2016
Worrying About the Carrying Capacity,
October 9, 2018
Hartley, David M.
Dewey Defeats Truman, February
12, 2013
The Shot Heard ‘round the World,
September 8, 2015
Secret Cities of the Manhattan Project,
February 13, 2018
Horn, Albert
The
President and the Emperor, September 8, 2003
Should
We or Should We Not?, April 10, 2006
Betrayal, November 10, 2008
E Pluribus Unum, April 11, 2011
Jones, Alan
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus!,
December 12, 2011
The Bicameral Mind and the Movie Playing in
Our Heads!, December 10, 2013
Down the Rabbit Hole! How to Live with the
Absurd, April 12, 2016
Politics for Dummies, January 8,
2019
Jonsen, Albert R.
The
Cloning of Coblenz, February 6, 1982
He
Doesn’t Eat Here, November, 1984
Fetuses,
Physicians, Felons, 1987
Cell
Wars,
November 12, 2001
A
Wisdom Gay and Sociable, December 13, 2006
The
Damnable Paradoxe. April 9, 2009
The Spotless Mind, January 9,
2012
Karlstrom, Paul J.
Dali and Garcia Lorca: Art, Love-Sex,
Politics, and Death, May 14, 2013
Moral Re-Armament: My Early Life in a
Utopian Cult, January 12, 2016
Marcel Duchamp and California: The
Conceptual Art Conundrum, May 8, 2018
With Illustrations
Kitt, F. Theodore
Michael
O’Shaughnessy, September 14, 2009
Letbetter, Dennis
What do I Know? What I do Know,
January 14, 2020
Lyons, Arthur
What
If,
May 11, 2009
Begot in the Ventricles of Memory,
November 14, 2011
A Bang for a Buck, or Less,
April 8, 2014
A Life, September 13, 2016
Primum non nocere,
March 12, 2019
Maier, Peter K.
Opportunities, Anomalies and Pitfalls in
the Federal Tax Law, September 10, 2013
The Effect of Political Correctness on
Civil Rights, February 9, 2016
Costly Tax Mistakes, April 11,
2017
The New Tax Legislation, May 14,
2019
Maser, Clark
What Governs History, 2000
Brush
Up Your Thucydides, April 4, 2002
King
Canute and the Tipping Point, November 8, 2004
Summoned
by Bells, March 12, 2007
April,
1917: What If?, October 12, 2009
The
Price of Loyalty, March 12, 2012
Arthur:
The Enduring Myth, May 13, 2014
Elegy for a Generation,
May 10, 2016
McKenzie, Kirk
Is
There A Crisis In the Performing Arts? The Case of Opera and Symphony
Orchestras, June 11, 2007
Armies
of the Night, November 9, 2009
Playing the Devil: How Iran Came to See the United States As the ‘Great Satan,’ and How Despite This, A Nuclear Accord Might Be Reached, May 14, 2012
Dick, Pat and Henry’s Excellent Adventure: The Nixon Trip to China as History and as Opera, June 10, 2014
Primaries, Populism and Citizens United: How the Republicans Ended Up with Donald Trump, November 8, 2016
Eisenhower and Crisis Management: Suez, the Soviet Union, Berlin and the U-2 Incident, April 9, 2019
McLaughlin, Andrew C. III
An
Examination of the American Character, March 7, 2005
Thoughts
on the Formation of the State of Iraq, February 11, 2008
Wet-Dry,
Silver-Lead, June 14, 2010
McQuade, Donald
The Literary Essay in
the Age of Twitter, February 12, 2015
Write When You Get a Chance,
December 10, 2019
Morse, James
Are
All Men Created Equal?, April 11, 1988
We
Need A Good War, October 8, 1990
Gettysburg,
What If? 1992
Capitalism,
May 11, 1998
The
New Millennium, January 10, 2000
Abraham
Lincoln, What If, June 8, 2009
Neiman, Max
Excellence and Broad Base Power: An American Application, March 14, 2017
Auf Wiedersehen Munich, February 11, 2020
Nelson, William R
How
Did We Get Here?, October 13, 2008
Boys
and Girls, March 14, 2011
Seventy-Two
Percent, February 11, 2014
North, D. Warner
“Free to Choose” – But Will We Choose Wisely? September 9, 2014
Daniel Warner: Learning about My Namesake, Who Lived Two Centuries before Me, May 9, 2017
Seeking Knowledge about Reality: Plato, Probability, and Quantum Mechanics, October 8, 2019
Patton, Robert Gray
The
Gene Is in the Bottle, April 11, 2005
By
the Light of the Moon, September 10, 2007
Fish Out of Water, March 8, 2010
Pearce, Stephen S.
The
Pursuit of Happiness, December 13, 2010
The
Paradox of the Perpetual Revolution: Change vs. Resistance, October 8, 2012
A Picture Is Worth a 1000 Words; A Metaphor Is Worth a 1000 Pictures, December 9, 2014
When You Have More Than Five Minutes, December 13, 2016
Unfed Sheep in an Age of Unbelief, November 12, 2019
Prescott, Richmond
A
Hogshead of Sense? May 8, 1978
The
Best Offense, June 9, 1980
Einthoven,
Enthoven and Entitlement, January 11, 1982
Whiteness,
October 6, 1983
The
Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood: De Tocqueville Revisited,
February 10, 1986
Storytelling:
Nothing but the Truth? November 4, 1990
Two
Angry Men, October 12, 1995
Antis,
May 8, 1998
Capital
Punishment, November 8, 1999
The
Self Shelf, December 8, 2003
Outraged
Lamentations, December 12, 2005
Homo Economicus, October 11, 2010
Reinhardt, Richard
The
One, The Only, The Original Don Juan, June 9, 2008
What
Was A Newspaper? November 8, 2010
The
Ideology of Ecotopia, June 11, 2013
The Burden of Guilt:
Munich, 1938, November 10, 2015
On Foot in America, June 12, 2018
Resh, Vincent H.
The
Ugly American Fail-Safe, and the Cold War, January 14, 2014
Gender 2016, October 11, 2016
Confessions of a Nesomaniac, December 11, 2018
Rivo, Morton G.
Quacks, Charlatans and Mountebanks: Gifted Entrepreneurs of American Medicine, October 13, 2015
Rutherford, R. Calvert
The Strange Story of Santiago de Compostela, October 11, 1993
The Inventors of Romantic Love, September 9, 1996
Saved by an Earthquake, February 9, 1998
A Celebration of Life, June 12, 2000
India – Land of Extremes, September 10, 2001
From Francis to Perry, October, 11, 2004
All States Are Not Created Equal, February 12, 2007
An Historical Crime, January 12, 2009
The Pursuit of Happiness, November 12, 2013
Safrit, Henry F.
The Building Health Care Crisis in the U.S., May 9, 2005
The Romantic Era in Music, April 18, 2008
The Gap, September 13, 2010
Schram, John A.
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Sometimes the Good Guys Wear Black Hats, June 8, 1998
Election Year 1800, November 13, 2000
The Lincoln Douglas Debates, November 4, 2002
Religion and the Part It Plays in Presidential Elections, October 9, 2005
Figures of Speech, April 12, 2010
Opening for Chit-Chat 2012, November 12, 2012
Ramifications of the U.S. Geo-Political Pivot and Its Effect on U.S. China Relations, April 14, 2015
Seven Score and Fourteen, November 14, 2017
Moral Leadership, April 14, 2020
Schwarzer, William W.
Smoke and Mirrors, May 1997
In Search of Equality, March 1999
Follow the Money, June, 2001
NATO and the Transatlantic Divide, July, 2003
The Crime Of Punishment, January 2006
SUPCTHIS, October 2007
Mr. Polk’s War, December 14, 2009
The Most Hated Man in England, February 13, 2012
A Thumbnail History of Islam, March 13, 2013
Understanding Shari’a, March 12, 2014
A Lost Chance, January 13, 2015
Seidner, Francis
The Collecting Phenomenon, November 11, 1996
Whatever Happened to Honor?, December 14, 1998
Faith and Tolerance, April 9, 2001
The Bell and the Candle Snuffer, November 10, 2003
Choosing Candidates, February 13, 2006
Colleges and Universities, December 10, 2007
Pumping Gas, May 10, 2010
Heaven and Hell; Choice and Aspiration (A Conversation), December 10, 2012
Parkinson’s Law Revisited, February 15, 2017
Sheldon, Wylie
Straining to Atone, November 12, 2007
A Very Likely Cause, February 8, 2010
Starr, Kevin
The Relationship between the Popular and Sophisticated Arts: An Inquiry, June 14, 2016
Stephenson, Charles G.
Taxation with Representation 1776-1936, May 12, 2015
Perfectly Permissible Plundering, January 9, 2018
Merchant of Venice -- A Surprise, June 3, 2020
Sullivan, Charles
As If He Had Seen It Before; Deconstructing the "First Voyage" of Christopher Columbus, October 10, 2011
Sir Francis Drake’s “Nova Albion”: The Lasting Value of a British Colony that Never Actually Existed, January 14, 2013
Making History: Reconstructing the Elizabethan Quest for the “Northwest Passage”, June 9, 2015
Let Us Not Praise Famous Men, December 12, 2017
No Man is an Island, June 23, 2020
Thaler, Michael
“A
Mugwampish Tendency”: 100 Years of Living the Life of
The Chit-Chat Club, January 11, 2010
Progress Is Our Most Important Product,
June 11, 2012
The Man Who Wore A White Coat and Orange Jacket, October 14, 2014
In the Room Where It Happens, June 13, 2017
Finding Doctor Fleck, September 10, 2019
Turnbull, J. Gordon
Accidents, Happenstance, Serendipity, November 13, 2018
With Illustrations
Willis, F. Roy
Married to the Sea: Venice and Its Mediterranean Empire, March 10, 2015
De Gaulle and FDR, March 13, 2018