Former Members – Chit Chat Club

The Chit Chat Club’s records go back to its founding in 1874. Although the following list of former members and their essays is not complete, it is assumed that it is a nearly complete list of our former members, and includes the titles of over 900 of the estimated 1,500 essays which were written to be presented at our meetings. The Club will be posting as many of these essays as we can find digital copies of over the next few years. If an essay has been posted, clicking on the title should take you to that essay. If you want to read an essay that is listed, but not yet posted, please send us an email to info@chitchatclub.org requesting that that particular essay be posted, and then that essay will move to the top of our To Do List.

Trade-Unions
Confucius
Heredity
Japanese Literature

1889
The Interstate Commerce Act

1887
The Century’s Progress in the United States
Novels and Poetry of Bulwer Lytton
The Poetry of Keats

1879
George’s “Progress and Poverty”

1880
Calderon de la Barca
California Legends
Chinese Literature

7/1893
The Hawaiian Republic

1895
Commercial Education for California

1897

Political Economy of Adam Smith

1882
The Intellectual Culture of California
The New Constitution

1879
The Monroe Doctrine

1880
Montaigne
Recent Silver Legislation

1890
The Divine Comedy

1890
The Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton
Lord Macaulay
Taine’s History of English Literature

The Poetry of the Pacific
The Eastern Question
On Literature

1878
The French Revolution

1880
The Irish Question

1880
Writings of E C Stedman

Present and Future of the American Republic
Grant and Ward

James Russell Lowell
Resumption of Specie Payment

Edgar A. Poe: His Prose Writings
Wordsworth

Shakespeare and Goethe

Accumulated Capital

Authorship of Shakespeare

Wages
Labor and Capital
Joseph Addison

Tendency of Modern Education

Edmund Burke as a Statesman
George Eliot

1877
Intellectual Culture

1882
Lord Byron
John C Calhoun

Michael Angelo
An International Code
Liberty Not License

1878
Riparian Rights
Postal System and Government Control of Telegraphs

1880
Insanity and its Relations to Crime

1880
Presidential Address

1884
The Utility of Forestry
Crime and Criminals

1887
Origin and Force of Religious Ideas

1889
The Veto in the Republic

1890
Prehistoric Man

4/1893
The Legal and Political Status of Women

1895

Speculation as Affecting the Rate of Interest
Legal Restraint upon Ownership of Land
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

1880
Recent American Psychical Research
The Chinese Question
William Lloyd Garrison

1890

Economy in Transportation

Law and Public Opinion
Alexander Hamilton
Charles Sumner

1879

Governmental Ownership of Railroads and Telegraphs
Municipal Ownership of Water

The Double Standard
Ruskin’s “Munera Pulveris”
Robert Burns

1880
Some Elements of San Francisco’s Growth

Ruskin’s Works
Women in American Law
The Author of “Friends in Council”

1879
Nathaniel Hawthorne

1880
The Protection of the State

1887
Japanese Mythology
The Restraint of Trusts and Other Combinations of Capital

1889
Country Roads

7/11/1892
Chancellor Kent

1894
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier’s Poet

1896
Eugene Field

1898

Crime and Treatment of Criminals
Decennial Reflections
Dowden’s Shakespeare
The Moral Element in Political Economy

1879
The Book of Job

1880
The Policy of Protection

1884
On the Chit-Chat Club

1884
Laissez-Faire

1886
Literature Response to Toast

1887
Literature of the Year

1889
Ibsen and his Dramas

1890
Sense and Nonsense

1891
Methods of Crime Prevention

5/1893
Kidd’s Social Evolution

1894
Great Books of the Year

1895
Religion in Business
Labor Organizations

1901
Religion in Business

7/1907
The Social Unrest — John Graham Brooks

9/1909

The National Banking System of the United States
Compte de Paris’ History of the Civil War
Irrigation in California

1880
Reform in Municipal Government

1880

Laurence Sterne

1880
Ideal Theories of Life and Government
Walter Savage Landor
The Labor Question

1889
Tolstoi

1890
The Classics in Ancient and Modern Times

1895

Milton in His Time and Ours

1879
Influence of Science on Modern Thought

1880
The Sugar Industry

9/1893
Sonya Kovalevsky

1895
Omar Khayyam and His Interpreters

1897
Some Problems of Co-Education

5/1902
Freedom of Teaching and Learning at the German and American Universities

1/1908
Paracelsus

1/1910

Horace

1879
Sugar Production
The Future Industries of California

1880
Lieutenant Derby

Our System of Naturalization

1879
On Literature

1879
Arnold’s “Light of Asia”

1880
The Egyptian Question
Chit-Chat Club

1883
Tegner’s Fridthjof’s Saga

1886
Our Opportunities
The United States; A Nation Among Nations (Oration 15th Annual Dinner)
Discovery of America (Oration 18th annual dinner)
The Behring Sea Controversy

1891
The New Charter and Municipal Reform

1894
William Watson the Poet

1897
Literary History of America

1901
The New Poets of California

1903
The Progress of Equal Suffrage

11/1907
An American Merchant Marine

12/1909

Sewerage and Drainage

The Advent of the Railroad

1879
Civil Service Reform

1880
Ventilation
The Jews
The Rule of the Newspaper

1886
Thoreau

1890
Manuel Training

5/9/1892
Edmondo de Amicio on Spain

1894
Old World Impressions

1896
Why Community Experiments Have Failed

1898
Kidd’s ‘Principles of Western Civilization’

7/1902

Thomas Carlyle

1880
On Literature

1880
Puritans and Quakers in America

1880
Poem for the Evening – Life Thoughts

1881
The Era of Revolt and Reorganization
The Pre-Raphaelite School

1887
Utopias - Past, Present, and Future

1889
Poem of the Evening – Opportunity - 18th Annual Dinner Poem
Evil Literature
Forests and Forestry

1891

Shelley and the Revolution

1879
Pessimism in Modern Thought

1880
The Aim and General Utility of Philosophical Studies

Probable Changes in the Government of the United States

1880

Equality

1881
American Shipping
Recent American Psychical Research

1887
E. R. Sill

1889
Certain Phrases of the Law of Negligence
William Lloyd Garrison

1890
Corrupt Practices Acts

3/1893
Dangers of Codification

1895
Edward Lear: a Study in Nonsense

1897
Introduction to 23rd Annual Meeting

1897
The Poems of William Vaughn Moody

10/1902
Education, Higher and Lower

3/1907
Joseph Mazzini

4/1909

Paschal

Nihilism
On Literature

1881
Poem of the Evening

1882
A Banquet at Peterhof

1883
Grant and Ward

1885

William Godwin and His Political Justice
On Literature

1882
George Sand

Science, the Modern Magician

1877
The Higher Utilities of Science

1881
On Science

1881
New Worlds in Time – Response to a Toast

1892
Conservation of Energy

1894

Balance of Power in American Constitutions
Surnames
The Sonnets of Shakespeare
English Domestic Politics
Japanese Agriculture

1887
Higher Education of Women

1889
The Classic and the Romantic

1890
Shakespeare and Copyright

1892
California Breadstuffs

1894
The Romance of King Arthur

1895
Medieval Literature

1895
Individualism as a Factor in Society

1897
Marriage

12/1901
An Informal Talk on Egypt

8/1907
The Oregon Trail

12/1908

The Ownership of Railroads
The Ownership of Land
Materialism

1887
Ballot Reform

1889
The Australian Commonwealth

12/14/1891
Trial By Jury

8/1893
The Monroe Doctrine

1896
Thomas Jefferson

1897
The Women of Shakespeare

1898
Alexander Hamilton

4/1902
Utopia

9/1906
Trusts

11/1908
The Recall of Judges

1911

Bellamy’s “Looking Backward”

1890
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Abbe de Lamennais
College Athletics

3/14/1892
The Unemployed and the Industrial Army

1894
Max Nordau; His Literary Criticisms

1896
Recent Developments in Trusts

1901
The Peace Conference at the Hague

1903
Increase of Power in the President of the United States

8/1908
A Glance at Bushido

9/1910

The Problem of Modern Civilization

1890
Swedenborg
Appearances
Across the Plains in 1850

4/11/1892

Malthus on Population
Schiller

On Literature – Response to Toast

1884
A New Analysis of Wit and Humor
Freedom – Oration 13th Annual Dinner
Genius
Reform and Reforms - a Classification and Estimate

1890
The Criterion of Historical Research
The Qualifications of Voters

1890

The Restraining and Remedial Value of Punishment for Crime
The American Question

1887
Land; Its Value and Ownership

1890
Large Land-Holdings in California and the Remedy

1/11/1892
John Wesley’s Views of the Development Theory

6/1893
Japanese Competition

1896
The Purpose of the Nation in the Present War

1898
The Passion Play of Oberammergau

1900
The Isthmian Canal

9/1902

Francis Petrarch
“Burning Sappho”

The French as Colonists in America
The Higher Education of Women
Japanese Agriculture
Balance of Power in American Consitutions
Shakespeare and Copyright

12/92
Individualism as a Factor in Society

1898

Trades Unions
Municipal Reforms

1886
Nordau’s “Conventional Lies of Our Civilization”

1890
Railroad Commissions; their Uses and Abuses

6/13/1892
Scenes at Sacramento - Experience of the National Guard

1894
Lecky’s Democracy and Liberty

1896

The Silver Question - Oration 12th Annual Dinner

1886
Public Schools and their Relation to Politics

1887

Chit-Chat Club of the 17th Century
The Sonnet in America

1887
California Literature

1889

The Surplus Revenue Question

1887
The Observations of Malthus on Population as Verified in the U.S.

1889
Pension Legislation As Affecting Morals and Finance

1889
Arthur Young’s Travels in France

1890
The Political Significance of the Year

1893
Journalism in the United States

1/1893
Merchants

1894
The Gold Standard in California

1895
The Wars of the United States

1898
Raising of Revenue

1898
Edward Fitzgerald

1901
Boston in 1850-1860 and Earlier

1903
Some Observations on the American Stage

10/1906

Abigail Adams

11/1887
James Russell Lowell

12/1890
William H. Seward

10/10/1892
Hawaiian Republic and Its Future

1894
Emerson as a Lecturer
Race Problems
The Results of War in the Orient
he Hawaiian Republic and its Future

1895
Achievements of 1893 in International Relations
Edmond Burke

1897
The Strength and Weakness of the Nation as Revealed by the War

1898
What the United States is Doing in the Phillipines

1/1902
The Sherman Anti-Trust Law

10/1902
William E Gladstone

4/1904
Recent Art Progress in the United States

6/1906
he Sherman Anti-Trust Law

10/1902
Theodore Roosevelt

3/1908
William Pitt Fassfender

4/1908
“Chinese” Gordon: The 19th Century Knight Errant

3/1910
Camillo Cavour

5/1910
Frederick Ferdinand Low

10/1916

Eras of Civilization

1889
American Character and Characteristics- 16th Annual Dinner

1890
Ireland, Ancient and Modern

8/8/92
Samuel Pepys and his Times

1894
The Drama

1896
God’s Atonement to Man

1901
Ireland and the Land Bill

1903
The Highlands of Ireland

12/1906
Before the Gringos Came, and After

1/1908

The Old World Judged by the New

1890
The Columbian Exposition of 1893

1891
Has Woman Any Vocation Outside the Family?

1893
Signs—Political

1894
Why the Charter Should Be Approved

1896
The Perils Arising from Congested Communities

1898

Tea, Coffee, and Tobacco

1890
Is Long Life Worth the Effort to Attain It?

2/1893
Recent Improvements in Medicine

1895
The Propagation of Disease

1897
The Quaker Experiment in Government in Pennsylvania

1901
Infection and Contagion

1903
Laughter and Its Influence

4/1907
Why We are Right or Left Handed

7/1909

Immigration and Naturalization

2/8/1892
The Railroad’s Right to a Reasonable Rate

1893

Utility of Bank Commissions

9/11/1892
The Currency of the United States

1894
Beets

1896

Our Diplomatic and Consular Service

1894
The Corean War

1894
The Pacific Ocean in the Twentieth Century

1897
Ideals of American Diplomacy

2/1903
American Race Problems

1901
“Chinese Gordan”: 19th Century Errant

1910
Frederick Ferdinand Lowe – Financier, Statesman, Diplomatist

1916
Theodore Roosevelt

3/1908
Chinese Gordon, the Nineteenth Century Knight-Errant

3/1910
Prince Ito, the Maker of Modern Japan

4/1910

Possibility of the Millennium

10/1893
Can the Public Protect Itself Against Strikes?

1894
An Old-Time Journalist

1896
Kit-Kat Club 1st Talk at 23rd Meeting

1897
Is Life Worth Living

1898
Are All Men Liars

2/1908
The College Scrap-Heap

2/1910

The Oregon Country

1893
Changing Society (Oration 20th Annual Dinner)

1894
The Geographical Limits of the Higher Races

1897

The Parliament of Religions — Response to a Toast

1893
War — Response to a Toast
Progress of Intellectual Development and Emancipation of Human Thought – Response

The Decline of Poetry

1894
Destructive Competition

1896

Clubs, and How to Use Them

1897
The Kalevala and the Finns

6/1902
Our Immigration in Light of History

1906
Labor Problems

1/1907
The Pacific Ocean During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

5/1909

Anarchism

2/1902
A Substituted Offering

5/1906
Carrying Civilization Into Africa as Seen by Peter Moor

9/1908
Chesteron, a Twentieth-Century Knight-Errant in Quest of Things That Matter

10/1910

John Marshall

1901
Art for Man’s Sake

1903
Comments on the Christian Science Controversy

10/1907
Wendell Phillips and the Anti-Slavery Agitation

11/1909

Industrial Betterment

1901
Our Women in the Days of Peril

7/1906
Prolongation of the Recent Chit-Chat Spat in Misfit Civilizations

10/1908

International Conferences

9/1907
Migration from Illinois to Oregon in the Fifties

9/9/40
British American Impressions, Historical and Personal

12/14/43
Tom Paine, Rebel Pamphleteer

7/10/43

Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and His Works

1903
Social Reform Legislation in Germany

2/1907
Edward Grieg

8/1909

A Little More About Heredity

8/1902
A Problem and a Story

7/1908
Under the Microscope of the Carnegie Foundation

7/1910

The New Universe

1903
Mohamed and the Present Advance of Islam

11/1906
The Earliest Individual in History and the Oldest Book in the World

2/1909

The Supreme Court Decisions in the Insular Cases

1901
The Veto of the President: Its Limitations

1903

A Business Man’s View of the Philippines

1903
Our Immigration in the Light of History

12/1907

The Modern Method of Writing and Studying History

4/1908
Impressions of Europe After Sixteen Years of America

8/1910

Carlyle’s Cromwell

6/1908
Some Thoughts on Poetry

6/1910

Universal Education and Social Progress

3/1909

Centralization

6/1909

The Catalonian Navy During the Middle Ages

10/1909

The Influence of the Study of Medicine on Rabelais

1915
Some Observations on Wine by the Poet Horace

1939
The Heathen Chinee

8/11/41

Appreciation of Hormonic Harmony

1939

My Most Interesting Case

1939
Remembering Pearl Harbor

2/9/41

Labor and Government

2/12/45

The Youth Movement

4/8/1939
What Makes Propaganda Go

4/13/42
Personality and Fitness Evaluations

10/11/43
Dynamic Personalities and Their Influence in Directing the Course of Civilization

1947
San Francisco’s Cultural Patterns as the Background for a World Capital

11/12/45

War and America

1939
The Immediate Problems of Aid to Britain

6/9/41
The War Up to Date

4/12/43
The Presidential Campaign of 1944

9/11/44

Chinese Poetry

1940
Science and Warfare

6/8/42
Some Post-War Problems

1944
The Social, Political, and Moral Aspects of Atomic Fission

3/11/46

Lo! The Poor Liberal

1939
Civil Liberties in War-time

1/12/41
The Churches and the Post-War World

11/8/1943
Freedom. What Is It? How Do We Get It?

1945
Reminiscences of Long Ago

1947
Reflections on the Church and State Problems

11/14/49
An Octogenarian in a World in Revolution

1/14/52
Greek Tragedies and Modern Life

6/14/54

Comments on the Attitude of Two Presidents on War with Germany

12/8/41
Perry’s Invasion of Japan

8/14/44
Andy Furuseth, Abe Lincoln’s World’s Seaman

1948
Minorities Groups in the United States

6/12/50
Attack on the Judiciary and the Bemeaning of the Federal Courts

9/8/52

The US as a World Power

1929
American Political Thought

11/11/40
Shipping in Wartime

10/12/42
The State as Land, Water and Air

5/8/43
1776-1946; Some Trends in American Political Thought

7/8/46
Some Influences of the Physical Sciences on Political Ideas

6/14/48

National Defense 1917-1941

3/10/41
T.R. to F.D.R.

2/8/43
Problems of the Carribean

3/12/45
Regional Government

8/11/47

Research and Freedom

5/12/41

The Breakdown of the American Cabinet System

1939

The Geography of Greece

4/14/41
Pay As You Go

6/14/43
What Is a Dollar?

4/1945

Hitler and Macbeth

2/12/40
High Comedy in the Odyssey

3/9/42
Shakespeare and Civilization

3/8/44
Delight of Battle—Homer and Ernie Pyle

9/10/45
Macbeth the Poet

6/9/47
Shakespeare’s Use of Verse and Prose

5/9/49
Essay on Chit Chat

5/14/51
Matthew Arnold and Sophocles

12/14/53
Oedipus

1956
Oedipus and Jocasta

5/1958

Science Implies Freedom

12/9/40
Ethicogenesis

1942
The Psychology of Poison Gas

8/10/42
Academic and Other Freedoms

12/12/44
Leonardo da Vinci

7/21/52
Tissue Culture Cadences

1954
What Gives Moods, Belra Viar

7/58
Organizational Levels of Living

10/63
Why Search and Research?

6/1966
Sterling

2/1971
An Irreverent Reverend: Charles Lutwidge Dodson or Lewis Carroll

10/13/75

The Presidential Vote

10/14/40
What IS History

9/14/42
Shall We Have Universities?

4/10/44
They Voted for Roosevelt

6/10/46
Rise and Fall of American Political Parties

5/10/48
Some Reflections on the Presidency and Some Presidents

8/14/50
On Politics and History

4/14/52
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

8/9/54
Woodrow Wilson

2/1957
Carpe Diem

3/59
Herbert Hoover and the Presidency

11/60
Who Determines Our Foreign Policy

12/63
Is the American Presidency Obsolete?

9/65

Foodstuffs and Society

8/12/40
Early Days of the Chit Chat Club

1941
Timeless Rome in the 1920’s

9/13/43
Some Happenings in 16th Century Rome

7/9/45
The Modern Doctor and His Job

3/10/47
Background of Delinquency

2/14/49
Louis Pasteur

1/8/51
Man Alive

3/1954

Mathematics for the Millions

1/13/41
Albert Schweitzer on Civilization

12/14/42
What to do with Germany

10/9/44
Reminiscences of Student Life in Germany

1/13/47

War Aims

2/10/41
The Changing East

1/11/43
The Business of Peace

1944
Organizing International Economic Collaboration

12/1945
The International Consequences of Scientific Research

12/1945
The Progress of Creation

1947
Economics of Polarity

12/13/48
The Unbalance of Our World

3/13/50
Palestine and the Near East

11/10/52
The International Consequences of Scientific Research

12/13/54
The Suez Canal

12/1956
The Maoris of New Zealand

1956
On Giving Advice

1/59
The Magic of Science

10/61
The Great Illusion

9/62
The Political Economy of Science

4/13/1964
From Adam Smith to Keynes and After (also given Bohemian Grove)

1964
The Guideline Economy

3/66
Auri Sacra Fames

6/1968
The Parameters of Education

10/1971
Defunct Economists

5/13/74

The Relation between Philosophy and Biology

10/13/41
The Truth About Education

5/10/43
Retirement at Forty-Five

6/11/45

Time and Tide

9/8/41
Some Comments on the Manhattan Project by an Eye Witness

2/11/45
The Scientist and Society

1/1948
In the Beginning

12/12/49
Comment on “Worlds in Collision”

3/10/52
The Musician of Bath

5/1954
Tom Fraser and the Building of Lick Observatory

6/1955
The Horsemen in Greenland

9/58
Seeing and Sites

1/61
Wineland the Good

4/63
Worlds Without End?

11/65
The Mars Experience

4/9/73

How Fare Our Farmers

7/1942
Who’s Boss? Management Now and Tomorrow

1944
How Fervid the Church

4/1946
The Business Man in Post War America

2/1948
Salesmen and Society

1/1950
On Being Elected

10/13/52
Chit Chat’s 80th Birthday

9/13/54
How Far the Sabine Farm

1956

Rubber and the Deepening of the Soul

7/12/43
Some Comments on American Pre-History

5/14/45

Does the U.S. Have to Go Socialist?

3/14/49

Botany Mother of Science

1945
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

1947
Responsibility and No Power!

6/13/49
Salt

12/10/50

Supreme Court Decisions on Japanese Evacuation

1/14/46

The Scientist and the War

12/10/45
How Not to Control the Atom Bomb

10/13/47
Prospecting for Pictures

11/58
Citizens Committee on Elementary Education

9/60
Finding Order in Chaos

4/62
The Use of Models in Physical Science

11/1964

Fact and Fancy in the Spirit of Wine

9/9/46
The Theriaca

9/13/48
The Physician as a Sociologist

11/13/50
On Tasting Wines

2/9/53
Some Biological Implications of Medical Research

4/11/1955
The Biologist Looks at the Aging Process

5/59
Is Behavior Genetically Conditioned?

3/61
Biologic Potential of Aldehydes

3/63
Fiddle Strings - Odds and Ends

5/65

Migration from Illinois to Oregon in the Fifties

9/9/40
British-American Impressions, Historical and Personal

11/9/42
Brave New World

10/14/46
Family Disintegration and the Law

10/11/48
To Be Or Not To Be - Some Thoughts on the Revival of Price Control

10/9/50
Loyalty Oaths

1/12/53
Where There’s A Will

3/1955
Welfare Planning in the Bay Area

3/1957
Current Controversy about the Supreme Court

4/59
Metropolis 1980

2/61
The Problem of Extended Law

12/1964
Student Revolt from the Standpoint of a College Trustee

12/1966
Leadership in Higher Education - The Role of the Trustees

4/1969
Activism

12/1971
Constitutional Crisis - Do We Have One?

2/12/1973
Seven Years on Prisons

12/9/74
Sauce for the Gander

11/14/77
Who is Crippling Whom?

11/12/79
The Barker’s Children

3/8/82
Never More

10/8/84

Some Impressions of Italy under Fascism

1945
Population and Food Supply: The Current Scare

11/8/48
Food and Agriculture in the Soviet Union

2/13/50

World Federal Government: How Melancholy the Knight

4/11/49
Don’t Sass the Upper Class

4/9/51
Honesty as a Foreign Policy

9/14/53
Like A Cigarette Should

4/1957
Some Metamorphoses of an Avatar

3/60
Albigensian and Other Heresies

10/62
“That There Is a There There”

2/65
The Exhausting Life of the First Duke of Castries

12/10/79

Some Aspects of Legal Ethics

8/8/49
Some Thoughts on Insanity as a Defense in Criminal Cases

9/10/51
Justice Holmes, the Huxleys and Moral Codes

1/11/54

Tioga - Today and Tomorrow

1/10/49
Resource Management Come to Mineral Creek

12/11/50
Dinosaur Appraisal - Illustrated

4/13/53
Lost Valley

1955
Testimony Before Congress (Sierra Club)

4/1957
Shrine of Ages

6/1957
Rambles - Here and There

10/1959
Thailand Trivia

5/1961
Utopia

5/1963
Practical Problems With A Family of Boys

10/1965
“Nowhere”- 400 Years Later

1967
“…from whence cometh my help…” Psalm 121

2/1970

Australia and the Pacific

12/12/49

A Lawyer’s View of the Courts

1940
Major Strategy against Japan

6/8/42
Oil For the Lamps of Arabia

6/12/43
Russian–American Relations

1946
Some Philosophical Reflections on Law

4/48
Some Comments on Legal Philosophy

4/12/48
What Effect on Our Economics if Gold Should Be Restored to Free Circulation

4/50
A Lyric Poet in an Iron Age

2/11/52

Law in 2000 BC

10/10/49
A Very Short History of Trial by Jury

11/12/51
The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination

4/12/54

Raffles: East Indian Pioneer

5/9/50
Coronation Curiosities

5/12/52
Ultima Thule

2/59
Taize: Footnote on Catholic-Protestant Relations

12/60
The Genius of Bad Poetry

5/64
Arms and the Man

5/66

First Amendment Freedoms

8/13/51
Reasoning Above the Values of Education

10/12/53

Bret Harte in California - A Character Study

9/11/50
Andrew S. Hallidie, a Forgotten San Francisco Personality

6/9/52
From My Library Shelves

10/11/54
Some Aspects of Robert Louis Stevenson

1956
Reflections of Loyalty

10/1958
Reflections on Living One’s Life

5/1960
A Tourist in Spite of Himself

5/1962
Mr Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

1/1964
Europe in Retrospect

1/1966
Judah P Benjamin - A Struggle Against Adversity

3/1968
Portsmouth Plaza - San Francisco’s Most Hallowed Ground

11/1969

Private Philanthropy and Rigor Mortis

2/12/51
Congressman Cox Investigates the Foundation

5/53
Malice in Wonderland

9/55
Hoopa

11/59
Jim Crow - Whose Problem?

9/1961
A Republic In Terror

9/64
Foundations and Government: The Third Round
“...out of void of darkness without sound...”

9/1969

Democracy’s College

6/11/51
Can We Really Educate Via Television

3/9/53
Ten Years With and Without the U.N.

11/8/54
Courage as A Means to Peace

2/1957
Emotion of the Educative Process

6/59
A New Children’s Crusade?

4/61
Mater and Magister

11/61
On Banning the First Use of Nuclear Weapons

11/63
Never Trust Anyone Over 30

4/66

Was Tojo Murdered? Legal Bases of War Crimes Trials

10/8/51
Power - Electrical and Political

2/8/54
Aristotle Poetics

10/1956
Plato’s Republic

12/58
Bacon and Descartes - Induction and Deduction

10/1960
Deep Springs and Summerhill

1/1963
The Great American Intertie

3/1965
The Bent Twig

12/1967
The Ties That Bind

9/1970
Chit Chat Club — The First Quarter Century

11/13/72
On Essays

6/10/74
Centennial Chit Chat

11/11/74
Gods, Heroes and Monsters

4/9/79
The Bible: Fact or Fiction?

4/13/81
Adventure and Satire

12/83
Austen-Trollope

4/7/86

Strange New World

12/8/52
Mapping the American West

1955

Some Impressions of Italy Under Fascism
What Is Old in New Russia?

6/8/53
Politics and Technology

1955
The Case of the Eccentric Earl

3/58
This Is Your Life

5/60
Conquest of Violence

2/63

The Haves and Have Nots
No Longer Backward; the Problem of Native Labor

1956
Salting

4/1958
What’s In A Name or the Irresistible Mean

4/1960
Forever Hungry

11/62
An Old Stamp Album

12/1964
The Cows of India

1/1967
The Itch of Youth

2/1969
The Price

3/1971

Opera for Opera Sake

1955
What Pharoah’s Daughter Started

2/1958
The Rocky Road to the Courthouse

5/1958
Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair

1/1960
Gilbert and Sullivan in Retrospect

12/1961
“Seek Not to Question”

2/1964
Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing

2/1966
Rings (Wagner and Tolkien)

12/1970
Locus Sigilli

10/9/72
Forgotten Men

4/8/74
Stellar (Bio of Arctic Explorer with Bering)

5/10/76
A Piece of Paper

4/10/78
Exploring the Cosmos With Lewis and Clark

5/12/80
Step by Step From Stem to Stern

10/11/82
It Ain’t Necessarily So

9/9/85

Barbizonia

2/60
Cold Heart

1/62
Crisis at the University of California

1/1965
Animals and Man

10/9/1967
Medical Manpower in Our Changing Times

11/1970
Traveling Behind the Iron Curtain

4/10/72
The Barking Dog

1/14/74
In Pursuit of Aphrodite

1/12/76
International Training of Surgeons

2/13/78
Heredity and Environment

4/14/80
Who Done It?

1/10/83

Intimations of Immortality

6/58

Twig Bending

12/59

The Fourth “R” - A Plea for Total Education

3/1962
A Christian’s View of the Racial Crisis

6/1964
Ethics and Power - the Shaping of Decision

11/1966
Changing Religion in a Changing Society

3/1969
To Melt or Not to Melt - That’s Not the Question

3/12/1973
“Somewhere West of Laramie”

3/10/80
Have You Tried the Preria Spring Lately?

6/82
Evolution in Light of Religion
Compulsory Military Service

1/8/45
A Free and Responsible Press

4/14/47
Some Notes on U.S. Foreign Policy

3/12/51
How Free Is the Press?

6/8/53
Ars Piscatoria

1955
John Peter Zenger

10/1959

30,000 Years, More or Less

2/62
Above and Beyond the Greasy Grey

3/64
Miiba Minga - Many Thorns

9/66
Progress

1977
Why?

4/82
A Sarga

1985
Heads or Tails or High-Brows, Low-Brows and Egg-heads

1986

“Magna” Carta: Was It?

4/1965

Thoughts From a Platform in Persepolis

9/63

History and Humor in the Supreme Court

6/63
Ben’s Court, and Mine

11/65

Rise and Fall of Stalinism

12/1962

Reflections on American Styles

6/65

The Gold Bug

4/1968
Cryptology

1968
Jack London - Man Overboard

11/1970
Francisco Solano

1973
The Bear Flag Revolt

10/14/74
Polo Anyone?

1/8/79
Two Bits a Ride

4/83
Another Game?

11/11/85
An Auricular Problem on What Did You Say?

1990
The Millenium Problem

2000

“The Second Thinnest Book?”

12/1969

The Predicament of Mankind

12/11/72
Decisions, Decisions

9/9/74

Rare and Well Done

9/76
Remember the Hummingbird...And Other Fables

1978
Shepherds Loaves, and Fishes

9/8/80
Dealer’s Choice

2/14/83
The Man in the Orange Coat

3/11/85

Lean and Flashy Songs

11/10/75
A Wandering Vine

1/9/78
In Solemn Silence

2/11/80
Followers of Procrustes

5/10/82
Devil In Deerskins

12/10/84
The Purple Land: A Visit to Argentina

4/86
The Friendly Arctic

8/87
The Hidden Hunger

9/11/89
The George Miller Committee Hearings

9/6/90
Know Then Thyself

9/9/91
Agenbite of Inwit

9/13/93
The Search For Life

9/11/95

Into the World

2/14/72
The Four Letter Words

3/11/74

Escape!

9/1975

Fetuses, Physicians and Felons: An Exploration of the Ethical Dative

3/8/76
Pirates, Priests, Presidents and Professors

1977
The Cloning of Coblentz

1982
He Doesn’t Eat Here

1984
Mens et Mensa: A Philosophico-Theological Reflection

5/11/86
The Ethics of Divine Politicians

1987
Cell Wars

2001
The Wittiest Ethicist

2004
A Wisdom Gay and Sociable

12/13/06
A Damnable Paradoxe

4/13/09
The Spotless Mind

1/9/12

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342093480
Prince Lockheed

March 1977
A Hogshead of Sense

May 8, 1978
The Best Offense

June 9, 1980
Einthoven, Enthoven, and Entitlement

January 11, 1982
Whiteness

October 1983
The Principle of Self Interest Rightly Understood: DeToqueville Revisited

February 10, 1986
Antis

May 9, 1988
Story Telling: Nothing But the Truth

November 4, 1990
Hillary, Jackson Hole and the Newly Independent States

October 11, 1993
Two Angry Men

October 12, 1995
Absurdity and Meaning

March 9, 1998
Capital Punishment

November 8, 1999
The Self Shelf

October 10, 2003
Outraged Lamentations

December 12, 2005
Why Poetry?

2008
Homo Economicus

October 11, 2010

Not With My Crowd You Don’t

6/14/76
Not Good Behavior

9/11/78
Light In the Dark

1/12/81
Some Roots of Dallas

5/83
Would You Vote for Alcibiades or Talleyrand?

10/11/85
The Bonaparte Who Was A Poet

2/22/88
The Children of Promise

3/13/95
The Supreme Court: Past, Present and Future

1/96
Rivalis

10/97
God and Caesar - A Recent Confrontation

4/12/99
A Story of the Sneeds

1/02

“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”

11/8/76
The Medicine Man, The Law Man, and The Clergyman

1978
Salt

11/80

They Also Surf Who Only Stand and Wade

3/14/83

Back to the Ocean

6/11/79
The Quest for the Spice of Life

3/81
Chicken Liken

11/83
A Needle to the Star

3/10/86
The World’s Oldest Industry

6/15/88
The Apocalyptical 21st Century

12/8/90
500 Years of Baja California History

4/12/93
Father Eusabio Francisco Kino

11/12/95

Exploration – On Richard F Burton

1979
A More Fatal Disease than Cholera, Typhoid Fever, and the Rest Put Together

12/14/81
Tis Not the Drinking that is to Blame, but the Excess

1984
Well O’er the Water, Well O’er the Sea

1985

Carpe Diem

11/82

Untitled

9/82

Does Life Begin at 40?

1987
406, 56, And All That

3/90
Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?

9/14/92

A Free Man’s Freedom

2/84
Journey to Central America

6/86

You Have the Right to Remain Silent

2/9/87
I Think I Shall Never See

5/8/89
A Life of Fiber

3/9/92

Prologue: November 1918

1987
“What’s the Difference?”

6/8/92

Pike’s Peak or Bust

2/11/91

Being Busy

5/92
No Title (Aftermath of A Test on Atoll)

1992

Goethe’s Final Words

11/9/81
From the Tidepool to the Stars

9/10/84
The Sausalito Hum

4/13/87
Sharks: Myths and Maneaters

10/9/89

IBM and the Thracian Maiden

1987

Is a Safety Catch Enough?

3/84
Murder in Acre

2/13/89
North America on the Fast Track

5/13/91

A Question of Conscience and Ethical Considerations in Relation Thereto

4/13/92

The Dowager Queen

2/9/76

A Leader Great And Small

6/83
The Second Half...Computers

12/9/85
Blind Man’s Bluff

10/99

A Curious Mixture of Geniality and Venom

1/9/84
An Uneasy Partnership

5/86
How To Watch A Revolution

11/10/88

Frank Norris and the Composition of McTeague

October 1981
Seeing Is Believing

April 1984
The Relationship Between Popular and Sophisticated Culture: A Personal View

June 14, 2016

A Greed for History

September 14, 1981
Trying to Make a Dollar out of 16 Cents

May 9, 1984
So long, and thanks for all the fish

January 14, 1985
Epicurean Delights

1989
What A Difference a Dollar Makes

November 13, 1989
“Plain Living and High Thinking”

January 1992
First Emperor of China

1992
Sugar Plums - Majalos

October 14, 1996
A New Future

January 11, 1999
Chit Chat Club History Updated

2000
Presidential Powers

June 12, 2006
Horace Davis

March 9, 2009

The Codus Sinaiticus and the Monastery of St. Catherine

1995
Islam

1/11/04
Samuel Pepys: His Diary and His Library [Not submitted due to illness and health]

4/9/13

The Lion By His Claw

1/90
Drake’s Equation

12/04

A Proposal to Provide Universal Health Care in the USA

3/8/93

Tragically Difficult

10/9/2000

Business and Corruption: Framing the Haitian Military Question

1994
The Informal City: The Implosion of Urban America

1996
Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology

2000

An Elegant Theory

5/13/85
Food For Thought

1987
Tocsin

9/28/90
“One Day Earlier”

1/14/91
A Dagger of the Mind

4/10/95

Views from Africa

1994
Nowhere Man

6/10/96
The Pride of Rome - Considerations on the Pantheon

9/14/98
The Honest Spy

2/12/01
Revisiting the Revision

3/10/03

Just Four Blocks Away

5/10/99
The Art of Biography

4/14/03

Bribery

1987
The Founder of the Other Chit Chat Club

2/90
True Confessions

1992
The Mermaid on the Dolphin’s Back

1996
The Gladstone Club

1/8/01
“The Bird of Loudest Lay” - A Detective Story

12/08
“You May Have The Body”

5/9/11

Triumph of Belief Over Reality - The Strange Story of Santiago de Compostela

1993
The Inventors of Romantic Love: The Troubadors of Occitania

1996
Saved By an Earthquake

2/9/98
A Celebration of Life

2000
India: The Land of Extremes

9/10/01
From Frances to Perry

10/11/04
All States Are Not Created Equal

2/12/07
An Historical Crime

1/12/09
Walls

9/12/11
The Pursuit of Happiness

11/13

Are All Men Created Equal?

4/11/1988
Gettysburg - What If?

1992
Capitalism

3/11/98
The New Millenium

1/10/2000
We Need A Good War

2004
Inflation Causes and Effects

1/08/07
Abraham Lincoln, What If?

6/8/2009

Bosnia - Cauldron or Crucible

December 1995
Smoke and Mirrors

May 1997
In Search of Equality

March 1999
Follow the Money

June 11, 2001
NATO and the Trans-Atlantic Divide

July 2003
The Crime of Punishment - Thoughts on Criminal Justice

January 2006
The Rise of the Supreme Court

October 2007
Mr. Polk’s War

December 14, 2009
The Most Hated Man in England

February 13, 2012
A Thumbnail History of Islam

March 12, 2013
Understanding Sharia: The Sacred Law of Islam

March 11, 2014
A Lost Chance

January 13, 2015

Kit-Cat and All That

March 1997
The Pleasures of Book Collecting

1999
Gilbert and Sullivan

2002
Medicine and Science

May 8, 2006
“What If?”

May 11, 2009
Begot in the Ventricles of Memory

November 14, 2011
A Bang for a Buck, or Less

April 2014
A Life

September 2016
Primum non nocere.

February 18, 2019
Words and Music

What Governs History, Man or Fate?

March 2000
Brush Up on Your Thucydides and the Pundits You Will Wow

2002
King Canute and the Tipping Point

2004
Summoned By Bells

2007
April, 1917: What If?

October 2009
The Price of Loyalty

March 12, 2012
Arthur: The Enduring Myth

May 2014
Elegy for a Generation

May 2016

Poetry — An Elusive Task

February 12, 2001
Where Did the Thunder Go?

May 14, 2001
The Curse of the Wiki

March 2006
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

The President and the Emperor

9/8/03
Should We or Should We Not? On Estate Taxes

4/10/06
Betrayal

2008
E Pluribus Unum

4/11/2011

A San Francisco Renaissance Man: The Willis Polk Story

2005
Michael O’Shaughnessy - Biography of a Chit Chat Club Member

9/09

An Examination of the American Character

3/05
Thoughts on Formation of the State of Iraq

2/08
Wet-Dry, Silver-Lead

6/14/2010

The Gene in the Bottle

4/11/05
By the Light of the Moon

2007
Fish out of Water

3/8/10

Medical Economics

2006
The Romantic Era in German Music

2008
The Gap

9/13/10

Telomeres and Longevity

2006

Straining to Atone

2007
A Very Likely Cause

2/10

How Did We Get Here From There?

2008
Boys and Girls

3/11
Seventy-two Percent

“Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus”

December 12, 2011
“Welcome to Las Vegas-A Faith Based Community!” 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

Dewey Beats Truman: That’s One for the Books

February 12, 2013
The Shot Heard ‘round the World

September 8, 2015
Secrete Cities of the Manhattan Project

February 13, 2018

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

From Aristotle to Newton via Baghdad

September 2018
The Mystery of December 8th, 1941

February 2021