First Principle Studies Archives

Human distress may involve the body, but it also involves meaning, memory, fear, grief, responsibility, relationship, and spirit.

Medical and psychiatric thresholds decide who is normal, who is sick, and who enters treatment. The question is who controls...

A wrong explanation does not merely fail to heal. It can change treatment, identity, expectations, and the course of a...

I am not saying do nothing. I am saying do something effective. Protect the person, find the cause, and do...

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

Conflict of interest used to be easy to see. Today it often hides inside public-private partnerships, expert consensus, standards, and...

The phrase “separation of church and state” is often used as if it means religion must be removed from public...

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

by Richard P. Weigand Education begins long before a child opens a textbook. It begins with a question. What is...

Happiness often returns when a person regains purpose, useful action, and a meaningful place in the lives of others. True...