More Mischief About Income Inequality
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON In September, the renowned RAND Corporation released a meticulously detailed, scrupulously objective study about income inequality in the United States: “Trends in Income...
The Paradox of Prosperity
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON In Friedrich Hayek’s 1954 book Capitalism and the Historians, the late French philosopher and political economist Bertrand de Jouvenel noted a baffling...
On the Utility, Fairness of Standardized Tests for College Admissions
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON The long-established use of standardized tests (the SAT and ACT) as a major criterion for gaining admission to college is increasingly being questioned...
Do People Really Distrust Capitalism?
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON During the past few years, there have been multiple reports of surveys and polls indicating that people are down on capitalism and may...
AOC’s Anti-Billionaire Animus Is a Threat to Us All
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Last , in a Martin Luther King Day public interview, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates asked democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) why he was...
The Pernicious ‘Living Document’ Theory of the Constitution
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Recently, former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden publicly shared his vision for the U.S. Supreme Court. First, he said...
AOC’s Ramblings Against Billionaires
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM
“No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.”
That was the punchline of democratic socialist Rep....
Thoughts About Time Will Shape Our Future
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Time is one of the most fascinating and impactful aspects of our human experience. Calendars and clocks can be little dictators....
Budget Deficit Capitulation: Our Spending Problem
MARK W. HENDRICKSON, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM During the week before Christmas, Congress rushed a spending bill into law. Two spending bills were introduced that Monday,...
What’s Wrong with a Tax on Billionaires?
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Among the many radical economic plans offered by various Democratic presidential candidates, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have proposed an...
Climate Change: Who are the Ideologues?
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Disagreements often lead to insults. When I was a kid, when one of us thought another was “all wet” (wrong), the...
Ominous Signs of Hatred in Politics
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Heated rhetoric and politics go hand in hand. In today’s hyper-politicized polity, the line between heated and hate-filled rhetoric is crossed often. This isn’t...
Current Elitist Threats to Our Republic
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”—Ronald Reagan “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face...
The Persistence of Poverty: Another Perspective
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Poverty in the sense of acute deprivation is largely nonexistent in the United States in the 21st century
In a previous column, I...
The Persistence of Poverty
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Poverty is one of the oldest problems in the world. For much of history, it was intractable and grimly inevitable. Today,...
Addressing Root Cause of Illegal Immigration
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Regardless of how you feel about immigrants entering our country across the southern border at the Rio Grande River—whether you wish...
The Hatred Embedded in the Proposed NO HATE Act
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Editor's note: Current status of Senate Bill 2043 as of August 23, 2019: Read twice and referred to the Committee on...
The UN’s Great Extinction Scare
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” This disturbing prediction (by no means...
When Humans Don’t Procreate
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON The “hook” of the story intrigued me: “This hasn’t happened in all of modern history…” An email from “The Crux” last...
Old Wisdom Applied to Current Spending Proposals
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON This will sound like the start of a bad joke, but please bear with me: What do Everett Dirksen, Otto von...