Scotty Hendricks

Scotty Hendricks

Contributing Writer

scotty hendricks

Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.

If a fetus is a person, would it be a citizen too?
Is Juche an ideology, a scam, or a very strange religion?
Is it the key to understanding why North Korea acts like it does, or an elaborate sham?
A plan to forgive almost a trillion dollars in debt would solve the student loan debt crisis, but can it work?
Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
A new study has some disturbing implications for rodents who like a nice soda.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn't exist when you have no evidence either way?
Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn't as shocking as you'd think.
America's socialists owe a lot to one man, but what did he think about socialism?
Inequality and racism are connected, but maybe not as much as you think.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.
Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.
One flew east, one flew west, eight shrinks flew into the cuckoo's nest.
He's enflamed conversation about socialism across America.