The Naval Academy hews to high standards in a world in which standards are constantly being diluted. It insists on personal accountability in an era in which individuals are allowed - almost encouraged - to blame others for their failures. It inculcates leadership in a society that sometimes seems obsessed with followership.
At least that's the ideal - an ideal that the academy manages to uphold to a remarkable extent. But our recent package of stories provided grounds for worrying - if not necessarily for concluding - that the academy's all-important Honor Concept is yielding to our society's pervasive reluctance to...
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