In a new book, "The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson," Alex Zakaras, Ph.D., professor in the UVM Department of Political Science, argues this point ...

Livestock ranchers receive undue praise and tax dollars while they disregard damage to life on the planet, in a political ...

More than a century and a half later, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, a sociological book by five scholars, followed explicitly in Tocqueville’s footsteps ...

David Brooks’s anger over the destruction of American values is felt by many who are demonstrating on our streets and filling ...

The psychology of class is at the heart of both Osnos’s The Haves and Have-Yachts, which updates and builds on a collection ...

In my new book, "The Year of Living Constitutionally," I talk about lessons from the Founding Fathers — and in this piece I want to talk about the importance of getting your hands dirty. (See ...

The debate struck me as uniquely American — a debate that could only happen in a country where we prioritize rugged individualism as much as we do. Here we see the concept of individualism ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

There are other cultures with strong streaks of individualism, like those in Scandinavia, but the American brand of individualism is unique. What makes American individualism different is its ...

We should first rather be questioning why America values health care as a privilege rather than a human right, which I contribute to our country’s deeply entrenched societal philosophy of ...

America has changed a lot since 1930, but Clint Eastwood hasn’t. Or so it would seem. The cinema legend, who turns 95 on Saturday, May 31, was born in San Francisco, raised in the East Bay and spent ...