One of my colleagues recently left her long term residence in China and is now living in a country that is currently much le…

In this essay I look specifically at the derailment into authoritarianism and at the multiple ways in which this derailment …

Positive freedom to do something, in turn, is sustained only if a society has defined or is in the process of continually de…

I provide an economic and commerce-based perspective, suggesting that true freedom might reside in something called the “har…

I propose that true freedom requires a balancing between a concern for individual personal rights and a concern for collecti…

Authoritarianism was evident in the passivity of Estonian men and women as learners and as architects of their own personal …

The lingering ghost of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe that Berne Weiss and I identified during the early 1990s (Bergquis…

Both hope and skepticism were to be found in Estonia (and Hungary) during the early 1990s, following the Soviet collapse. Ar…

The issue of freedom is certainly of great importance right now in our troubled and changing world. The insights gained from…

I frequently listen to classical music while I am working and in the evening before going to bed. The music during the day t…