American culture, with its strong tendency toward individualism and away from social responsibility, owes much to the country’s Protestant origins, writes Robert N. Bellah, an emeritus professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Robert Montgomery believes the best option for all nations is to work together for good of all Americans gravitated toward ...

The US response to coronavirus has been consistently inconsistent. It’s also uniquely American. There are no national guidelines and no organized efforts to reopen the country beyond what measures ...

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 ...

The United States is about to undertake a remarkably risky epidemiological experiment on itself. With at least 72,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 over the past seven weeks and no sign of overall ...

While many wait and watch for government to solve the coronavirus problem, rugged American individualism is already hard at work — not just the labs and medical researchers that are working 24/7 on ...

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 ...

A reader sends the above Daily Show clip, with the comment: It really shows how pervasive and deep the logic of individualism is. He’s right, of course. The clip is a bunch of interviews of pro-life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence on display at Sotheby's in New York in January. (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via ...

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 ...