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Uncancelling John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil

Uncancelling John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
View of a Standard Oil plant, which is located on a wharf, circa 1915. Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Decades before wokeness reduced the practice of canceling famous Americans to a mindless ritual, progressive historians agreed to cast John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil in the most unfavorable of lights. Few question the “official” condemnation of Rocky and Standard today. Thus, just a few days ago in this publication, I encountered this typical historical treatment:
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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