individualism

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  9/6/2022
  

  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. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/8/2022
  

  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. 

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• 9/12/2021
  

  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. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-31-18
  

  Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism

  by George F. Will

  A new biography released by the Cato Institute shows this.