Commentary
Envy is the animating spirit of socialism. It is a spiritual drug that induces people to resent those who have more wealth than they do, even though the possessors of that wealth have never done a single thing to harm those who envy them.
Protesters demonstrate against a series of labor reforms in Paris on June 28, 2016. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images
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.
