Mark W. Hendrickson

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...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Recently, I wrote an article about the removal of Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” from two famous American sports venues on...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON David Brooks of The New York Times has now jumped on the bandwagon, writing “The Case for Reparations.” The idea of paying...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Mark Trumbull, Staff Reporter The Christian Science Monitor Boston, MA 02115 Dear Mr. Trumbull, Last month, in your introductory remarks to The Christian Science Monitor...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Earlier in March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) proposed an amendment to H.R. 1—the Democrats’ ambitious attempt to “expand Americans’ access to the ballot...

It's the enviro-fascists versus free speech and science BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I wrote in my previous column that environmentalists are exploiting the climate-change issue to promote an...

Climate change isn't about the environment BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I discussed in my previous column some of the scientific issues pertaining to the climate change...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Editor's note: This article first appeared in TheEpochTimes.com on October 17, 2018 On Oct. 18, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Thank you, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal (GND) she has unveiled is most illuminating. It is now unmistakably clear...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Respect for others is the key to social harmony and a functioning democracy. It is a check on willfulness and selfishness,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...