Rugged individualism is an example of what one political scientist calls America’s “foundational myths”, writes. It’s an undercurrent in lots of stories we tell ourselves and others.

In conjunction with this I had to investigate non-media studies sources in order to grasp the examinations of American Individualism and how the ethos has developed and shifted over time, particularly ...

This self-conscious individualism has of American literature, Wilder explained. Poets like Whitman, Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson have tried too hard for spontaneous art, and often neglected the ...