Their hatred for war followed from their radical individualism.
Our founders rejected both a radical individualism that makes no room for others, and the dreary collectivism that crushes the individual.
"Robinson Crusoe" was the great early document of radical individualism, the story of an ordinary person's practical and psychic survival in profound isolation.
Much of this, he argues, is the product of modern liberalism, which has destroyed constitutional democracy by fomenting radical individualism and egalitarianism.
Styles of native works veer between a radical individualism and a determined populism.
"I suppose what's been called radical individualism in American society is the biggest challenge to Catholic identity and to the Catholic church," he said.
It is what he represents: a kind of radical individualism that thrived on the Lower East Side long before the musical "Rent!"
This radical ethical individualism is, for Steiner, characteristic of freedom.
The counterculture, however, was all about radical individualism - the attitude Republicans now snidely describe as "if it feels good, do it."
Barber posits that the radical individualism that underpins liberal theory and practice actually fundamentally undermines democracy.