We gathered to discuss geopolitics, socioeconomic policy, and the philosophical foundations of America.

We explored American idealism, moral philosophy, and the cultural foundations thereof, and how individuals can reshape the world through ideas and engaged citizenship.

The day after July 4th, we gathered to identify what makes America great and unique, and also what flaws she has.

We gathered to discuss the state of housing in America, what makes it so expensive and in such short supply, especially in locations which could use the most supply, and how we can fix it. We touched on the homelessness problem and zoning laws, and looked at Tokyo. We came up with resolutions on policies which could be implemented in local municipalities to alleviate the housing crisis.

We gathered to discuss the concept of Pax Americana, what it represents, what pillars support it, its benefits, and what contributes to American military supremacy, as well as risks to it.

We gathered and went down a major rabbithole of what the United States military command structure looks like. We discusssed what Abundance Liberalism is. We also spent time discussing dating in the modern day and the absence of third places.

We gathered to reassert what it is we care about: creating a world which gives life, more abundantly—both spiritually and materially. We discussed what a great society might look like and how current measures of "prosperity" fail to capture the full picture of a human. We investigate how social institutions have broken down, and what guiding principles might be for a renewed society. We also heavily discussed "WTF Happened in 1971?"

We gathered to read through excerpts from the book Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and discuss its claims.

We gathered to read through excerpts from the book Breakneck, by Dan Wang, and discuss its claims. We ended up talking mostly about the one child policy and the scientific and moral thought that led up to it and pushed back against it.

We covered the state of the housing market in the United States and why it is particularly terrible for young people. We also covered, briefly, China's social safety net, or lack thereof, and the ways its public infrastructure works may make up for it. There was also a tangent into AI scaling laws and how the need for compute, bottlenecked by chips and energy, would influence and be the influencer of Sino-American great power competition (or cooperation).

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we discussed what are the sources of American political disunity and how we might address them.

The heart of what we discussed is that a truly great and flourishing society cannot separate the virtue of its individual citizens and its rulers from the political system in which they live. We dove deep into Confucianism as a system of ethics and examined traditional sources of American virtue and what has changed.