Washington Examiner
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America 250: Individualists and communitarians at once
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An essay exploring the American character through the lens of a founding myth—that ambitious risk-takers from Europe emigrated to America, creating a nation of individualists—and examining how this tension between individual aspiration and communal responsibility has shaped American identity.
America 250: Individualists and communitarians at once
Two kinds of people populated Europe back in the day, a German politician once told me. Most Europeans were dutiful citizens, rule followers, whose chief virtue was dependability. A smaller group were untamed, ambitious risk-takers, the politician said. She concluded: “The second group all got on a boat and went to America.” This European founding […]
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