America 250: Individualists and communitarians at once

Published: Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 12:00 pm

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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