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.
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