The Five Habits of American Liberty

In The First American Synthesis, we traced how communitarian individualism emerged from the lived experience of Americans striving to reconcile liberty and equality—from the covenantal order of the Puritans to the self-organized settlements of frontier pioneers and immigrant neighborhoods. What follows is a closer look at the five most enduring expressions of communitarian individualism —five civic habits that gave the American Ideology its form, and that just might hold the key to its renewal. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit americanideologue.substack.com