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Richard P. Weigand
A guide focused on principle, meaning, and structure in an increasingly engineered world.
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Books on ethics, discipline, and character for individuals, families, and a culture in need of guideposts.
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Executive Manuscripts
Unique intellectual property available for leaders who want to own the narrative.
Moral Clarity
Restoring first principles that anchor families, institutions, and leadership.
Seeing the System
Looking past surface narratives to understand how institutions actually function.
A Path Forward
Frameworks for leaders prepared to act with discipline and moral restraint.
Executive Manuscripts
Unique intellectual property and strategic frameworks available for leadership partners.
Engineered Science
The public belief in medical research as objective, noble, and guided by truth.
Engineered Gender Dysphoria
A single idea is remaking childhood, medicine, and law, and almost nobody sees the machinery.
Engineered Education
School was engineered for compliance—this manuscript shows how to reclaim human learning.
Published Works
From the timeless code of Bushido to the foundations of everyday life.
The Samurai’s Apprentice
Prepare a child for life by giving them a path worth walking, and the gift of quiet strength. Inspired by the ancient Samurai code of Bushido, “The Samurai’s Apprentice” helps parents, grandparents, and homeschool families raise calm, confident, disciplined children in a noisy world.
Bushido: A Life of Quiet Strength
The way of the samurai was never only about the sword. It was about the soul. Centuries ago, warriors lived by Bushido—a code of discipline, loyalty, and quiet courage.
Your Voice Matters Most: Life Poems
In discussing his reason for writing his first book of poetry, “Your Voice Matters Most-Life Poems,” Richard Weigand comments that, “In the course of this life I have learned a great deal, and poetry is how I have chosen to pass on the lessons learned. That is what this book is about: lessons learned relative […]
Latest Essays
Observations on modern institutions and culture.
Formation Requires Intention
Discipline vs Control — What’s the Difference?
Children Are Not Self-Forming
“We cannot outsource our ethics to institutions that have forgotten their purpose. We must rebuild them, one leader and one family at a time.”
— Richard P. Weigand