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Heritage Explains

How Can Conservatives Make Business Better? | Allen Mendenhall

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

Education

4.7847 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Business is not just about making money. It’s about making opportunity. Supporting families. Making culture. That’s why the Heritage Foundation is standing up the Free Enterprise Initiative, to support merit and integrity in business. To Explain what the Free Enterprise Initiative is up to these days, I sat down with the Senior Advisor to the project, Allen Mendenhall. 

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Thoughts? Questions? Email us at: heritageexplains@heritage.org.  

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The Free Enterprise Initiative at Heritage: https://www.heritage.org/free-enterprise-initiative 

Allen Mendenhall on X: https://x.com/allenmendenhall 

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0:00.0

Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.

0:06.6

There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.

0:11.3

Without a heritage, every generation starts over.

0:14.4

Ask not.

0:15.3

To remind the current regime.

0:18.6

We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.

0:21.9

All the action to get back in their box and stay there. Let's die. We have a left.

0:31.6

From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.

0:44.1

It was not clear that much would come of Milton.

0:48.8

He was born into a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite community in 1857.

0:51.9

He did not have an education beyond the fourth grade.

0:55.1

His parents separated when he was young, and his dreams of making the living as a confectioner were beset by failure after failure. Even after a long

1:01.5

apprenticeship and the candy-making business, Milton could just not seem to make things work.

1:07.9

First in Philadelphia, then in Chicago, then in New York City. His business just

1:13.1

kept failing. It wasn't until Milton finally returned to his home turf of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

1:18.7

that he hit on a winning combination. He started a caramel company that boomed. By the 1890s,

1:25.5

it employed over a thousand workers. After seeing a demonstration on

1:29.4

chocolate making in 1893, Milton became convinced that chocolate, at the time a European

1:34.8

luxury candy, could be produced for the everyday American. He sold the caramel company

1:40.0

and went all in on chocolate. And as we know, that chocolate company,

1:44.8

under the quiet and unassuming leadership of Milton S. Hershey,

1:48.7

has become a mainstay of the American marketplace.

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