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Fri, 07/02/2021 - 12:00pm
Individualism is good, collectivism is bad. That’s what I first concluded as a teenager after reading Friedrich Hayek’s seminal treatise, “The Road to Serfdom.”
Every life experience since then has confirmed my hunch. That makes it all the more irritating when opponents of individualism, out of ignorance or bad faith, keep distorting what it is.
A particularly misleading charge is that individualism should somehow be tantamount to selfishness and egoism. Individualists think only of themselves, this narrative goes, whereas people in collectivist societies take care of their group.
The opposite is closer to the truth. That’s the conclusion of forthcoming research by four psychologists: Shawn Rhoads, Rebecca Ryan, and Abigail Marsh at Georgetown University and Devon Gunter at Harvard.
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The next generation of local musicians are hard at work and preparing for their next rock show. It's all happening at the School of Rock in Colorado Springs, which had its grand opening in late April.
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Simon Kelner in The i
Congratulations on your wedding, Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds – but I have a few words of advice
on Boris’s third nuptials
Simon Kelner in The i newspaper has some words of caution for the prime minister, who is “taking a turn on the matrimonial roundabout” for the third time, marrying Carrie Symonds in July next year. “While I don’t want to dwell on the possibility of a negative outcome to his happy news, Boris will need to change his ways if he’s not going to face complete financial ruin,” says Kelner. “Fidelity and constancy have not exactly been the hallmarks of his relationships up to this point, and Carrie doesn’t strike me as someone who would stand for any nonsense, never mind a public betrayal.” Kelner claims Johnson is “the first Prime Minister in living memory whose personal finances we’ve had to worry about”, and concludes: “In every sense, he cannot afford another mistake.”