Americans gravitated toward individualism as people spread out in a new land that seemed wide-open with many opportunities. Many had to make individual decisions to come to America in the first place.

IS INDIA, the world’s largest democracy, a liberal democracy? This is the question that people both inside and outside of the country are increasingly asking. Since gaining power in 2014 and cementing ...

To understand American democratic society is to understand how liberalism and conservatism apply citizenship to individual rights. Although they have had different party affiliations throughout ...

For many years Iíve read this newspaper often wanting to write in. I havenít before, but Iím outraged enough now to take a moment to respond to many of the letters Iíve read in your column this past ...

The Burning of the Château d’Eau at the Palais-Royal, 1848, by Eugène Henri Adolphe Hagnauer. (Corbis / Getty) One of the more contentious issues to emerge during America’s Covid-19 crisis concerns ...

Many who resist COVID-19 vaccination insist they have a say over what goes into their bodies. An individual’s freedom to choose is the foundation for their position. Yet, there are times when such ...

When I heard about Melissa Valeriano's position on individual freedom, I was intrigued. When I met her and she told me how she worked her way through college to provide for her son, I was inspired.

Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don't come from kings or ...

It’s not that the left doesn’t understand the idea of personal freedom, it’s that they only want such rights for themselves and few others granted special status by the liberals who think rights only ...