free institutions

may survive in America precisely because so few people use them; passivity and conformism keep them harmless.

Recast in definition form from: “… institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism …”

freedom

passivity

apathy

democracy

participation

public

liberal institution

academia

asylum

bank

church

clearing house

college

corporation

court

court of law

education

electoral college

family

Federal Reserve

foundation

government

Grand Ole Opry

hospital

House of Lords

Inquisition

market (economics)

marriage

mediating institution

military

national workshop

orphanage

papacy

police

prison

private property

religion

religious institutions

same-sex marriage

school

slavery

social institution

state apparatus

university

zero institution

inquisition

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

free institutions, n.All

free institutions