Social harmony in America is unnatural. We’re not wired for it. Americans have many qualities, but above all, we’re individualistic — the most individualistic culture on earth. We are proud of our ...

America was built on individualism, or so the story goes. Rugged individualism, pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, the emphasis on entrepreneurship and Horatio-Alger-style independence — the ...

ISLAM was a movement of moral initiative. The Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) first address to his people reflected the entirety of the Quranic message as it had descended on his heart in an undifferentiated ...

Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 51, No. 2 (October 2015), pp. 300-311 (12 pages) The present study was conducted on 210 managerial personnel to examine the role of life events stress and ...

Anarchist collectivism was born within the first International Workingmen’s Association as an expression of that association’s anti-authoritarian faction. Initially, after the International ...

Researchers have charted cultures as falling along a continuum with several variables, including individualism versus collectivism, which includes the degree of support for and emphasis on individual ...

Editor's Note: This essay appeared in Cognoscenti's newsletter of ideas and opinions, delivered weekly on Sundays. To become a subscriber, sign up here. In the fall of 2024, one of the biggest ...

David Ambroz grew up homeless in New York City. His childhood was violent, hungry and terrifying. He wrote about it all in a 2022 memoir, “A Place Called Home,” which was gorgeous and brave and ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. One month to the day before the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times reported on a new analysis of how Americans spend their time. More and more of the ...

The mirror, diary, memoir, autobiography, portrait, love letter and even the fork represent practical manifestations of one of the most fundamental developments in Western culture: the growth of ...