How Attractive Is Socialism Now?

How Attractive Is Socialism Now?
Shelves are empty of baby formula at a store in Chelsea, Mass., on May 20, 2022. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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In Charles Dickens’s much-loved story “A Christmas Carol,” the crotchety protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, is visited by three spirits. The third visitor, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, gives Scrooge a sneak preview of how bleak and tragic his life will be if he stays on the same course.

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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