The Folly of Minimum Wage Laws
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has proposed raising the legal minimum wage to $12 per hour on July 1, 2019, and then an additional...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A Force to be Reckoned With
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Whatever else you may think of her, first-time Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is a great American success story. Hers is a...
‘Justice’ Is the Word of the Year, and ‘Social Justice’ Is Its Orwellian Opposite
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has declared “justice” its “Word of the Year” for 2018, owing to a 74 percent year-over-year increase in...
Remembering Soviet Dissidents and the Weaponization of Psychiatry
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
The New York Times obituary opened with a simple recitation of facts: “Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was...
Spending More on Debt than Defense
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
The financial health of the federal government has been deteriorating for decades. Unable to break free from our bipartisan addiction to...
The Politics of E15
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
On October 9, President Donald Trump announced that he was lifting the EPA’s ban on summertime sales of E15—a motor fuel...
Ready for Some Good News?
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
We are constantly bombarded with bad news. There are disasters, dangers, challenges, and woes. On the political scene, we find perpetual...
Trump on Trade: The Latest on the Tariff Strategy
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
When I commented in March about President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imported steel, I was hoping that he would back...
‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ A review of the new Mr. Rogers Documentary
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Full disclosure: I have never seen an episode of the long-running PBS children’s show called “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The only reason...
1968: A Year of Lost Innocence
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
This weekend, I will celebrate the 50th anniversary of my high school graduation with most of the surviving classmates of the Cranbrook...
Memorial Day Reflections, 2018
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
If there ever was a day in the American calendar that invites reflection, it is Memorial Day. As we pause to...
High-Priced College Textbooks: Uncle Sam to the Rescue
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
If you are a college student, professor, or bookstore employee, you know how jarringly expensive college textbooks are. It isn’t unusual...
President Trump’s Proposed Tariffs
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to impose tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on imported aluminum is...
Thanksgiving Day thoughts, 2017
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Thanksgiving Day is the traditional American holiday when we are given the opportunity to pause from our normal routines and take...
U.S. Record Levels of Debt — Who Cares?
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Do you remember the band Chicago’s 1970 single, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” I thought of it the...
1967 and “The Summer of Love:” A Half-Century Later
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
For the baby-boomer generation (or at least the counterculture segment within it) the summer of 1967 became known as The Summer...
Remembering Mary Sennholz
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Mary Sennholz—a Grove City College legend and the widow of another GCC legend—passed away peacefully in her sleep early Sunday morning....
Remembering Three Great Athletes (and the Way Sports Used To Be)
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
May was a poignant month for those of us who were avid Detroit sports fans in the late ‘50s and early...
Mark Zukerberg’s Call for a Universal Basic Income
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Facebook founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement speech at Harvard made a big splash. It was a warm-hearted, encouraging, interesting address,...
Medicine that Hurts
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
The Republican-proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) that the House of Representatives is expected to vote on this Thursday has been...
Obama’s Shocking Historically Weak Economic Performance
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
On January 27, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of only 1.9 percent for...
President Obama’s Parting Economic Shots
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
President Barack Obama’s executive actions during the two and a half months of his lame duck, post-election time in office provide...
Trading Votes Across State Lines Is Another Assault On Our Constitutional Order
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
This article first appeared in TheBlaze.com, several days before the election. As things have panned out, Mark Hendrickson was right on...
Three Cheers for Trade and None for TPP
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Last month, retired Rep. John Linder wrote a clear-headed article about the benefits of trade. A week-and-a-half later, FedEx founder and CEO, Frederick...
Why Should Ethan Couch Get a ‘Mulligan’ for Manslaughter?
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
The “affluenza” family is back in the news again. We first learned about the Couch family from Texas in the winter of 2013-2014...
The Left’s Cynical World of Bathroom Politics
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
I can’t believe that I’m writing an article about going to the bathroom!
But then, I can’t believe that at a time when...
Is Google the Ace Up Clinton’s Sleeve?
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
If you haven’t read research psychologist Robert Epstein’s bombshell article “The new mind control” yet, here’s a link. The article’s subtitle, “The...
Bernie the Bigot?
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
I abhor the name calling that degrades our political discourse, especially in election years; hence, the question mark in the title. I...
Is the Federal Minimum Wage Unconstitutional?
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
It’s a familiar political scenario: Behind the fig leaf of compassion and fairness, progressives and the union-dominated Democratic Party want the federal...
The ‘Phishing For Phools’ Book That Should Have Been Written
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
“Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception,” is a trivial work from two bright, kindly, likable scholars, Nobel Prize-winning economists,...