What Order Needs to Be Put In Today? Attention, Observation, and Order

Modern life constantly tries to command attention. This article looks at observation, false command, productive days, and the daily question...
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The New Conflict of Interest

Conflict of interest used to be easy to see. Today it often hides inside public-private partnerships, expert consensus, standards, and...
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Separation of Church and State: What It Originally Meant

The phrase “separation of church and state” is often used as if it means religion must be removed from public...
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The Agreements That Hold a Society Together

Civilization is not held together by force alone. It rests on shared agreement: agreement about truth, law, authority, responsibility, family,...
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First Principles in Education

by Richard P. Weigand Education begins long before a child opens a textbook. It begins with a question. What is...
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The Mercy of Restoring Purpose: Happiness

  Why true help should return a person to useful production, dignity, and morale People often ask how to be...
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The World Needs Mercy Now

The World Needs Mercy Now Why mercy is not weakness, but the restraint that keeps civilization humane The world does...
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The Noble Eightfold Path as an Ethics System: What the West Could Learn from Buddhist Formation

The Noble Eightfold Path may be understood as Buddhism’s central ethics system: a structured path for forming the individual through...
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Why Ethics Must Come Before Law

Ethics governs inwardly. Law governs outwardly.
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Humanism as Corrective, Humanism as Distortion

Humanism may have been correct as a partial recovery and destructive as a total frame.
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