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Greenland’s Decades-Long Importance to the US

Greenland’s Decades-Long Importance to the US
The Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base) in northern Greenland on Oct. 4, 2023. Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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During my lifetime, dating back to the middle of the 20th century, Greenland was off the radar screen of most Americans. If Americans knew anything at all about Greenland, it was that it was the answer to the trivia question, “What is the world’s largest island?”

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.