By Oliver DeMille The following is an excerpt from Oliver’s recent book, The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom. If freedom is to reverse the onslaught of American and global aristocracy, it will likely do so through the greatest freedom trend of our time. This trend is revolutionizing institutions, organizations, relationships, society and [...]
By Chris Brady “World View” is a term recently popularized by philosophers and media pundits who debate spiritual and political matters. It refers to the lens through which people see (and therefore interpret) the world around them. All information and observations must pass through this lens and be colored by one’s World View. Similarly, there [...]
By Oliver DeMille In the American founding era, most of the leading thinkers were rationalists. This means that they believed in reason as a top method of determining truth. Note that the general concept of reason has changed since then. When most people think of reason today, they tend to mix it with the ideas [...]
By Stephen Palmer “We know more than we know we know.” -Michael Polanyi Feeling overwhelmed by cultural, political, and economic forces beyond your control? Dismayed that we’re rapidly losing freedom? Want to make a greater difference? If so, your power and answers lie in the right hemisphere of your brain, waiting to be activated. If [...]
By Oliver DeMille The American framers overcame domination by an elite upper class by establishing a new system where every person was treated equally before the law. This led to nearly two centuries of increasing freedoms for all social classes, both genders and all citizens—whatever their race, religion, health, etc. During the Industrial Age this [...]
By Orrin Woodward I searched for him half my life, named with an uncommon sound. I looked for him around the world, but this person refused to be found. Thankfully, I discovered him, the good news is, you can too. However, it won’t be easy, as he reveals himself to just a few. You can [...]
By Bryan Hyde Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.–George Washington In 1930s Germany, a unitary leader plead for sufficient power to make his homeland safe from the threats faced by his nation. The German people and their [...]
By Stephen Palmer Why can’t the freedom movement seem to get any traction? Why have we lost battle after battle for at least the past century? It’s because we tend to make the good the enemy of the perfect, the pragmatic the enemy of the ideal. To be clear, it’s because the most passionate among [...]
By Kevin Mogavero This past weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking with a good friend of mine whom I have a great deal of respect. She is a teacher in a low-income-area elementary school. We had an inspiring conversation about our current school system, they way “things are” in our society today and how [...]
By Bryan Hyde When 28 year old Jared Massey was tasered alongside the highway by a Utah state trooper in 2007, the incident elicited a lot of strong opinions. Comments ran the gamut from, “The motorist was a criminal who deserved it” to “The trooper is living proof that the police are out of control.” [...]
