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Essays, evaluations, and observations on the drift of modern institutions.
Structure Before Freedom: Why Freedom Needs Form Before It Can Become Strength
Freedom is not the absence of structure. Real freedom requires form, discipline, responsibility, and the self-command that proper structure helps...
Read Article The Individual, Ethics, and the Social Order: Basics of Society
When ethics fails, justice rises out of necessity.
Read Article Why People Often Reject the Truth
by Richard P. Weigand One of the stranger things about truth is that it can be plainly stated, clearly...
Read Article Truths for Teachers: Why Good Teachers Do Not Always Give the Answer First
by Richard P. Weigand There is a difference between helping someone learn and sparing him the work of...
Read Article When Truth Comes Too Cheaply
by Richard P. Weigand Some truths lose force when they are handed over too early. Not because they are...
Read Article The Discipline of Looking: How Ordinary People Recover Clear Sight
Clear sight does not begin with brilliance. It begins with the discipline to pause, define words, look at outcomes, ask...
Read Article When a Description Becomes a Way of Life
Article The Original Observation When Robert Bellah described expressive individualism, he was not offering a philosophy to follow. Bellah et...
Read Article What Actually Forms Character?
Article Introduction If education is meant to shape the person, then one question sits at the center: What actually...
Read Article What Replaced Religion in Education?
Article Introduction When religion was reduced or removed from education, it was often described as creating neutrality. But neutrality...
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