Essays, Discussions & Guest Topics

A sampling of discussion topics, reading topics, guests and programs from the last few years:

  • ·         Convertibility: Social and Economic Capital
  • ·         Beyond Self: Going Forward Together and Sharing Contacts
  • ·         Working Opportunities: Effective Networking and Building Social Capital
  • ·         Mentoring and Mutual Benefit
  • ·         Investing in the Corporate State

  • ·         Introduction to the New Economy
  • ·         Starting a New Business in the New Economy
  • ·         Locating Capital in the New Economy
  • ·         Financing Education in the New Economy
  • ·         Business and Career Planning in the New Economy

  • ·         Conflict Theory and Modern Societal Competition
  • ·         Historic Imperialism, Competition and Morality
  • ·         Replicating Romans: The Foundation and Future of United States
  • ·         A Study of Machine Politics in Long Island
  • ·         The Government You Can Control Is Local, And All Politics Are Local

  • ·         The War for the Mind in the Information Age
  • ·         Home Truths by Western Journalists
  • ·         Eduard Bernays and Walter Lippmann
  • ·         Manufacturing Consent and Dissent

  • ·         America's Protestant Mainline Off Track?
  • ·         William James and the Philosophy of Religion
  • ·         Not the Faith of Our Fathers?
  • ·         Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley: Protestant Foundations
  • ·         The "Protestantization" of American Catholicism?
  • ·         Islam and Christianity; Shared Influences and Divergences
  • ·         The Judeo-Christian Myth & Religions at Odds?
  • ·         Zionism in the Unholiness in the Holy Land: Imperialism and Ethno-supremacy

  • ·         Another Nativism Pt I: Johnston Schoolcraft, Joseph Brant, Tecumseh and Red Jacket
  • ·         Another Nativism Pt II: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala; the Popul Vuh, Chilam Balam
  • ·         Old Gothamists: Theodore Frelinghuysen, Herman Melville, Lyman Abbott, Howard Crosby, John Lloyd Stevens
  • ·         Middle East and Christian Spiritual Thought: Ibn Abbad al-Rundi, St. John of the Cross
  • ·         Some German Thinkers: Richard Wagner, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel

  • ·         The Frankfurt School and the Neoconservative Movement
  • ·         Paul and the Re-Emergence of Libertarianism
  • ·         The Paleo-conservative and Neoconservative Divide
  • ·         Kirk, Carlson and Buchanan- the Paleoconservative Movement
  • ·         The Curious Merging of Externalized Left and Right

  • ·         Universalism, It isn’t for Everyone
  • ·         Notes on American Universalism
  • ·         The Ties that Bind: Modern Fraternalism

  • ·         The Male Presented as Dangerous to Society
  • ·         Loss of Communication among the Modern Male
  • ·         Relationships of the Modern Male
  • ·         Masculine Revival and the Men’s Movement
  • ·         The Revival of Rites of Passage
  • ·         The Hetero-normative Caricatured and Vilified
  • ·         The Art of Manliness Revisited

  • ·         C. Wright Mills, Thorstein Veblen and Class Identification
  • ·         Samuel Francis, Carroll Quigley and the Identification of the Establishment

  • ·         The American Ruling Class by Lewis H. Lapham
  • ·         Diversity and Discrimination by Patrick Buchanan
  • ·         Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
  • ·         The White Man's Burden (Book) by William Easterly
  • ·         Running on Empty by Paul Peterson
  • ·         Michel Maffesoli and Ethan Watters on Neotribalism 
  • ·         James Petras on The State and Local Bases of (Ethnic) Power Configuration in America
  • ·         Craig Calhoun on Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream

  • ·         Essay Series: Health and Fitness
  • ·         Essay Series:  Lifestyle vs. Consumption

  • ·         Level Club Mentoring Program
  • ·         Level Club External Calendar Program
  • ·         Level Club 25-40 Entry Program
  • ·         Level Club Entry Collegiate Program
  • ·         Level Club Family Calendar
  • ·         Level Club Fundraiser Calendar