Have you ever wondered how our level of productivity shapes the very core of our society? Does the drive to achieve more individually conflict with our collective values and interconnectedness? These ...

Countries vary greatly in the individualism they exhibit. Individualist societies emphasize autonomy, assertiveness, freedom and independence. Societies with a more collectivist bent, in which the ...

Free, competitive markets have been the engine for both freedom and prosperity. In addition, free market capitalism is morally based on the principle of individual rights to life, liberty and honestly ...

IN the last 100 years, the world has seen a unique struggle between the two ideologies of capitalism and communism. Only a generation ago hardly anyone could think that this struggle would vanish ...

Victor Joecks is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The most fertile soil for collectivism is isolation. During his inaugural address, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, “We will ...

Even when it leads to gross inequality and global financial crises, the conviction that unregulated capitalism is the best possible economic system remains deeply embedded in Canada. “As the waterhole ...

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If we include all human societies through human genus history in our analysis (using anthropological and archeological research showing that we spent at least 90% our human history in small-band, ...

Koreans should not feel guilty for Cho Seung-hui’s actions simply because they share his nationality or race. To feel guilty for his actions would be to accept the vicious doctrine of collectivism.