Jon Sanders
Contributor
Jon Sanders is an economist and the director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he also serves as research editor. The center focuses on protecting and expanding freedom in the vital areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment.
Follow him on Twitter @jonpsanders
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How the Supreme Court Changed the Calculus for Hyperregulation
“The administrative state’s cynical calculus has been upended. It can no longer count on courts to bless their claims of discovering hitherto unnoticed devastating powers tucked away in ‘gap filler’ statutory language.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Bug Off and Let People Enjoy Their Food
“The problem isn’t us having a ‘yuck factor’ to dignified mealworms and astounding fly larvae. The problem is them declaring such things ‘the future of food’ and telling us that our disgust is a threat to the world.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Are You in a State of Emergency? Mid-July 2022 COVID Threat-Free Update
“It must be hard to keep people ruled by fear of a variant ‘BA.5’ when the much more worrisome numbers impacting their lives and family are $5 gasoline and 9.1 percent inflation.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Fat Orwell
“With a few discreet kicks he sent the bits of his discarded lunch scattering. Now quiet again, his Fatbit faded to its resting display of the Party slogans. War is peace. Inflation is prosperity. Fitness is fatness.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Joe Biden’s Gasoline Saga
“The belief that exorbitant prices are good because it means people will change their entire way of life is one of the responses in the Biden administration’s rotation of pat responses to high gas prices, along with such things as blaming Putin and corporate greed.” ~ Jon Sanders
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This Tweet Contains Speech. Click Here to Learn More.
“Twitter users who have grown accustomed to surrendering their critical thinking to warning labels placed on others’ Tweets may need a period of adjustment. A new batch of pro-free-speech labels might just do the trick.” ~ Jon Sanders
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How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late April 2022 Update
“The main threat to people continues to be totalitarian government orders based on COVID and anything else they can get away with calling a ‘public health emergency.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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A Subtly Optimistic Fable: George Leef’s The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale
“With The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, Leef shows that someone who truly wants the best for their neighbors and fellow citizens cannot forever ignore the compounding contradictions of rote progressivism.” ~ Jon Sanders
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How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late March 2022 Update
“So even as mandates fall and COVID recedes, we cannot slumber while government has broken out of its pen. Maybe now it’s tamely wandering about the yard, but that doesn’t mean the beast is harmless.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Mr. Employer, Tear Down These Masks
“A ‘return to normal’ requires abandoning all aspects of the ‘new normal’ and asserting a real normal. At long last governments are dropping mask mandates. Holdout employers must do the same.” ~ Jon Sanders
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How the Supreme Court Changed the Calculus for Hyperregulation
“The administrative state’s cynical calculus has been upended. It can no longer count on courts to bless their claims of discovering hitherto unnoticed devastating powers tucked away in ‘gap filler’ statutory language.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Bug Off and Let People Enjoy Their Food
“The problem isn’t us having a ‘yuck factor’ to dignified mealworms and astounding fly larvae. The problem is them declaring such things ‘the future of food’ and telling us that our disgust is a threat to the world.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Are You in a State of Emergency? Mid-July 2022 COVID Threat-Free Update
“It must be hard to keep people ruled by fear of a variant ‘BA.5’ when the much more worrisome numbers impacting their lives and family are $5 gasoline and 9.1 percent inflation.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Fat Orwell
“With a few discreet kicks he sent the bits of his discarded lunch scattering. Now quiet again, his Fatbit faded to its resting display of the Party slogans. War is peace. Inflation is prosperity. Fitness is fatness.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Joe Biden’s Gasoline Saga
“The belief that exorbitant prices are good because it means people will change their entire way of life is one of the responses in the Biden administration’s rotation of pat responses to high gas prices, along with such things as blaming Putin and corporate greed.” ~ Jon Sanders
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This Tweet Contains Speech. Click Here to Learn More.
“Twitter users who have grown accustomed to surrendering their critical thinking to warning labels placed on others’ Tweets may need a period of adjustment. A new batch of pro-free-speech labels might just do the trick.” ~ Jon Sanders
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How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late April 2022 Update
“The main threat to people continues to be totalitarian government orders based on COVID and anything else they can get away with calling a ‘public health emergency.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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A Subtly Optimistic Fable: George Leef’s The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale
“With The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, Leef shows that someone who truly wants the best for their neighbors and fellow citizens cannot forever ignore the compounding contradictions of rote progressivism.” ~ Jon Sanders
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How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late March 2022 Update
“So even as mandates fall and COVID recedes, we cannot slumber while government has broken out of its pen. Maybe now it’s tamely wandering about the yard, but that doesn’t mean the beast is harmless.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Mr. Employer, Tear Down These Masks
“A ‘return to normal’ requires abandoning all aspects of the ‘new normal’ and asserting a real normal. At long last governments are dropping mask mandates. Holdout employers must do the same.” ~ Jon Sanders