No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians ...

Rose Wilder Lane, one of the founding mothers of modern libertarianism, and Frank Meyer, one of the founding fathers of modern conservatism, spent a decade engaged in friendly debate. They both did ...

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Many of us saw the pictures of revelers over St. Patrick's Day weekend who refused to heed the advice of health experts around the world, to practice social distancing, which helps slow the spread of ...

After the Second World War, there was a pronounced shift in mental health thinking towards seeing society, rather than the individual, as the focus of psychiatric efforts, especially those aimed at ...

Researchers have charted cultures as falling along a continuum with several variables, including individualism versus ...

In a new thought piece, researchers explore how deeply ingrained cultural habits — like America’s love of individualism and East Asia’s embrace of collective harmony — shaped the national chaos, ...