The Journal
Ongoing Research
Essays, evaluations, and observations on the drift of modern institutions.
Knowing, Thinking, and the Noise Between Them
Knowing can be quiet, while worry argues, repeats, and demands attention. By testing intuition against experience and reality, we gradually...
Read Article Proportion: The Unseen Governor of Life
Proportion is not a thing we can easily point to. It is the relationship among things, and when one part...
Read Article Lindsey Graham: Respect Without Agreement
A country cannot survive if every political opponent becomes an enemy, every disagreement becomes hatred, and every act of respect...
Read Article The Redefinition of Purpose
A group is created to serve a purpose. Then the purpose weakens, is fulfilled, or is subverted. If the institution...
Read Article The Redefinition of the Soul
The soul has not disappeared. It has been renamed. Conscience, guilt, repentance, courage, beauty, longing, and moral choice are being...
Read Article The Redefinition of the Body
The body once pointed toward reality, limits, sex, health, strength, mortality, and consequence. Now it is often treated as material...
Read Article Children: Manufactured Consumers
The manufactured consumer is not born by accident. Children can be trained to expect reward without production, esteem without competence,...
Read Article The Redefinition of the Child
A child was once understood as a developing person, a soul in formation, a son or daughter entrusted first to...
Read Article The Redefinition of Law
Law once existed to serve justice, restrain power, protect rights, require evidence, and judge conduct. Now it is often repurposed...
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