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

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

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

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

Kitt, F. Theodore
           
Michael O’Shaughnessy, September 14, 2009

Lyons, Arthur
           
It’s for the Birds
           
Words and Music
           
What If, May 11, 2009
            Begot in the Ventricles of Memory, November 14, 2011

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

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

McLaughlin, Andrew C. III
            An Examination of the American Character, March 2005
            Thoughts on the Formation of the State of Iraq, February 11, 2008
            Wet-Dry, Silver-Lead, June 14, 2010

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

Nelson, William R.
            How Did We Get Here?, October 13, 2008
            Boys and Girls, March 14, 2011

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

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

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
            Walls, September 12, 2011

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.
            see also listing in Chicago Literary Club Roll of Members (R)
            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

Schwarzer, William W.
            Smoke and Mirrors,  May 1997
            In Search of Equality, March 1999
            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

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

Sheldon, Wylie
            Straining to Atone, November 12, 2007
            A Very Likely Cause, February 8, 2010

Sullivan, Charles
           
As If He Had Seen It Before; Deconstructing the "First Voyage" of Christopher Columbus, October 10, 2011

Thaler, Michael
           
A Mugwampish Tendency”: 100 Years of Living the Life of The Chit-Chat Club, January 11, 2010