Mark W. Hendrickson

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...