This article, Updating the Welfare State: Marriage, the Income Tax, and Social Security in the Age of the New Individualism by Professor Anne Alstott of Yale University proves that.

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In other words, America can indulge its individualism only by setting limits to it.

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In a homily at his final Ash Wednesday mass in Saint Peter's basilica earlier in the month, he said the Catholic Church had been "defiled" by internal divisions, and suggested that he had been surrounded by "too much individualism and personal rivalry".

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Norman's critique of the welfare state was inspired by a similar belief in individualism.

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But the U.S., sticking by its tradition of rugged individualism, held out.

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The teen preference for individualism can also be summed up by today's hottest product-- Apple Computer 's iPod.

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The good weirdness of the natural birth movement is inevitably overshadowed by the vaccine debate, a debate which weaves together strands of American individualism and radicalism with the inevitability of distrust in a system as diverse and disparate as our own.

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At the same time, politicians promoted the idea of individualism and meritocracy, the theory that one's station in life was best changed by hard work and dedication.

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