individualism

Ken Burns Got "Prohibition" Wrong

by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Burns largely accepts an individualistic and libertarian narrative of prohibition as a misbegotten campaign of moral scolds, missing the reformist, egalitarian, and humane demands of the movement and the exploitative nature of the "liquor traffic" it sought to disrupt. 

How did this Level of Death Become Normal?

In absolute and relative terms, The United States has fared horribly in the coronavirus pandemic. Historians and social scientists help writer Ed Yong explain why the nation meets mass death with a collective shrug. 

Scammed From the Beginning: Rejecting Expertise as an American Value

by Guy Lancaster

When Americans demand and take unauthorized medications to treat COVID-19, they aren't indulging a new conspiratorialism but are tapping into currents of American cultural and religious history that have always rejected established authority. 

U. S. Individualism Spikes Up Coronavirus Cases

by Walter G. Moss

The COVID-19 pandemic shows that American political culture has embraced individualism at the expense of our ability to imagine and act for the common good.

Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism

by George F. Will

A new biography released by the Cato Institute shows this.