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Thanksgiving Thoughts: Reflections on Affluence

Thanksgiving Thoughts: Reflections on Affluence
The Thanksgiving Turkey float during the 85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York Nov. 24, 2011. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, fusing the secular and the sacred—the synthesis of the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian worldviews that has shaped our national identity.

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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