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Americanism or Progressivism: Which Will It Be?

Americanism or Progressivism: Which Will It Be?
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, Texas, on April 15, 2026. AP Photo/Eric Gay
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Earlier this year, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas delivered a speech in Texas in which he warned of an existential threat to the revolutionary principles that animated the birth of our republic. Those principles, articulated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Constitution, are these: that all men are created equal, that rights are inherent in the individual and not something bestowed by government, and that the primary purpose of government is to uphold those rights impartially. 
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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.