Americans gravitated toward individualism as people spread out in a new land that seemed wide-open with many opportunities. Many had to make individual decisions to come to America in the first place.

Viola Fletcher and her once prosperous community experienced the harm of collective blame and collective punishment, for a crime that never happened. That did not matter for the residents, the ...

My research required forays into two distinct areas of scholarly literature. First, I examined existing literature providing different analyses of Star Wars as a cultural myth and examining its place ...

Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody ...

As you walk through the world, you are not yourself. You are not a singularity. You are not an American individualist bootstrapping bull.... You are only borrowing this place from children you will ...

I GREW UP on stories of the second world war. During the aerial bombardment of London known as the Blitz, my mother, aged seven, had to sleep in tube stations for protection. She was given a mask ...

Despite the understandable anger and frustration with our current chaotic political system, a recent trip to Japan gave me incredible optimism about our nation’s future. Having a moment to leave our ...