This is the second in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. As we saw in the last post, there is a false dichotomy ...

In a business, employee autonomy can have positive benefits for both the individuals and the company as a whole. When staff members have the freedom to approach their jobs in a way that suits their ...

The "assumption is that more individual autonomy is automatically better," but the "desire to extend and expand the scope of euthanasia doesn't seem to be based on any coherent moral framework," says ...

It was not by chance that when the workers began to radicalize their movement they demanded “autonomy”, that is, their independence from external representatives, whether from the vertical bureaucracy ...

When I was around 10 years old, my stay-at-home dad went back to work. For the next few years, he switched jobs a lot. For a while he took portraits in a photography studio; another time, he managed a ...

Academic standards for college athletes being what they are, the legendary basketball coach Al McGuire spoke from a position of authority when he said, “I think the world is run by C students.” ...

People should decide for themselves what is valuable and live their lives in accordance with that decision. In so doing, they are the authors of their own lives, forming them through voluntary ...

Parental rights have emerged as a central battleground in the culture wars, debated in school board meetings, courtrooms and legislative chambers across the country. As conflicts intensify over what ...

A PERSONAL CHOICE: Rep. Howard Beaty (R-Crossett) says a bill that would prohibit vaccine mandates supports individual autonomy and personal choice. Republican lawmakers in support of a bill that ...