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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 ...

New Year’s started with a bang: just hours after the ball dropped in New York City, its new mayor lauded the "warmth of collectivism," deriding America’s tradition of "rugged individualism." Many ...

Test your understanding of the independent and interdependent self. The individualist values autonomy, personal achievement, competition, and is comfortable with individual distinction. The ...