Recent comparison of some of my work to that of Foucault is really a huge...

The hitherto obscure eighteenth-century history of Freemasonry in Mexico is illuminated by the records of...

Mathew Carey was an important Philadelphia publisher in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....

The Times, both in Scotland and London, had a real field day with the story...

This review is perhaps too glib, but it reflects my concern about the need for...

A variation of these remarks was part of the memorial service I led for Walter...

One of the fixtures in academic publishing for decades was the familiar and stark orange...

This interview i gave to the Vancouver Sun bring up some of the controversies surrounding...

In Washington my offices actually permit a glimpse of the offices of Phi Beta Kappa...

In founding the Congress of the Americas, World Vernacular Congress, and the Dupont Summit, I...

When SAHFR published this piece of mine I was President Elect of the Policy Studies...

Rupert Sheldrake is the controversial scientist who has suggested that many acts are somehow "saved"...

First as a conference presentation and in the pages of Heredom, and then in another...

The discovery of letters in the archives of the Historical Society in Philadelphia led to...

Latin American subaltern studies are in vogue, the meaning of "subaltern" having been enlarged since...

Fraternal studies are adjacent to gender studies -- fraternal societies have often been exclusively male...

Certainly in 1994 I did not think the history of Mesopotamia would be as important...

This was probably the first article to appear in Diadem, the journal for Masonic medal...

"When in Rome" has been my rule, so during stints in Australia I tried to...

The history of education in the Gulf includes a number of early school schemes that...

This is taken from my study of Freemasonry viz Dan Brown's The Lost Secret

The little book of weekly thoughts which I wrote for Phi Beta Delta fulfills a...

Among my Middle East contributions have been editions of classic texts, many relating to the...

El debate en tomo a "bolear solo" (Bowling Alone) que inicio Robert Putnam respecto a...

The rural or urban setting helped to determine the Masonic rite which grew and prospered...

Articles about the Middle East and the Arabs viz Freemasonry by me and with my...

The Columbia book Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic included a number of papers...

The Fall 2002 issue of The Medallion of Phi Beta Delta include several articles about...

This presentation at the international conference on Freemasonry hosted by the Grand Lodge of Scotland...

The controversy over American social capital that was fueled by Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" work...

While concentrating on Philadelphia, the paper by inference supports the idea that the study of...

This is another of my talks that I frequently give to a lodge. Since the...

This is one of the talks which I give on occasion to a lodge, and...

This was originally a talk given in British Columbia in 2007, then in Geneva, and...

For a number of years I went around the world beating the drum for the...

In any large city there are dozens of lodges, and they often are looking for...

Attention to the membership statistics of fraternal groups has been given much importance because of...

America has exported a baker's dozen of religions, and Mexico has been close enough to...

The Ku Klux Klan is a ritualistic fraternal organization, which puts it into the same...

Opus Dei plays an important role in Mexico and Latin America, and invites comparisons with...

Early on in studying the secret sociites of Mexico, the point was not lost on...

The Orange Order has figured prominently in Irish political history and particularly in the problems...

My teaching assistant of some years past, Carlos Cruz, took a great set of pictures...

Not all materials are going to end up on the Web. Some will always be...

The design of the cover for the newest edition of Creating the Arabian Gulf really...

Does the work done by policy scholars have any real effect on the world? Are...

Eugenia Perez is a supremely gifted Mexican artist. I have had the privilege of providing...

Over the years I have donated items to Dartmouth, the Essex institute, Eton College, Harvard,...

Starting as an undergraduate in one of Harvard's residential colleges, Dunster House, and reinforced by...

These are photographs of the presentation in Houston of Phi Beta Delta medallions to the...

This is a syllabus for Mexican undergraduate students, some of whom had real hurtles with...

This email exchange speaks for itself. The fact that it was a tenured professor is...

The Scottish Rite Research Society is one of many Masonic historical groups, but certainly one...

One variety of Freemasonry in Mexico is called white Masonry, or house Masonry, and although...

Unfortunately we seldom get to teach our special interests, because most departments are challenged by...

The important point about this contribution to an email list is the date, 1992. At...

The travel writer and famous mountain climber David Roberts and I were both in the...

As the web grows, more surprising things appear every day. I had forgotten completely about...