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Ominous Signs of Hatred in Politics

Ominous Signs of Hatred in Politics
Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924) addressing a crowd during the Russian revolution, circa 1917. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Heated rhetoric and politics go hand in hand. In today’s hyper-politicized polity, the line between heated and hate-filled rhetoric is crossed often.

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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