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Chile Veers Leftward

Chile Veers Leftward
Chile's President-elect Gabriel Boric celebrates with supporters after winning the presidential election in Santiago, Chile, on Dec. 19, 2021. Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Here in the United States, our global geopolitical focus tends to be transoceanic; that is, our primary concern has long been communist powers on the other side of the world—first the Soviet Union beyond the Atlantic and Europe, and more recently, the People’s Republic of China across the Pacific.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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