What Hacker dubbed “the personal responsibility crusade” ultimately ushered in a sweeping change “from an all-in-the-boat philosophy of shared risk toward a go-it-alone vision of personal responsibility.” “Of course, people need to be responsible and wear masks and distance in crowded places, but it’s the government’s duty to help support responsibility, not undermine it.” Now an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., Mounk notes that personal responsibility isn’t the exclusive domain of conservatives; the 1996 welfare reform signed by then-President Bill Clinton was called the “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, and California Gov.