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The pandemic has been one long lesson in human adaptability. (Zoom theater anyone?) It has also been a revealer of ugly truths. In the United States, COVID-19 has put front and center a host of ...

Individualism is good, collectivism is bad. That’s what I first concluded as a teenager after reading Friedrich Hayek’s seminal treatise, “The Road to Serfdom.” Every life experience since then has ...

For anyone watching the second series of Big Little Lies starring Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon, amongst others, you will recall a scene in the third episode where an attentive group of children ...

Individualism is characterized by self-reliance and loose ties between individuals, whereas collectivism is characterized by interdependence between individuals and the subordination of individual ...