Now we’re cooking with gas!” This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). It has the same rhetorical heft as “Full steam ahead.” It was popularized by radio stars Bob Hope and Jack Benny in the 1930s, and was...
Freedom and whisky go together. I first heard that line a few years ago at a Burns Night supper in a local pub outside Raleigh. It’s from Scottish national poet Robert “Rabbie” Burns (1759–1796), and the gathering was the annual celebration of his birthday, Jan. 25. I heard it spoken properly — Freedom and whisky...
Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from a column that first appeared in the American Institute for Economic Research. IMPOVERISHING US IS NOT THE SOLUTION The Biden administration’s term of choice for the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is “historic.” One reason is its “climate change” promises. The monetary costs alone are enormous, which is strangely a point of...
Editor’s note: This opinion piece by Jon Sanders first appeared at American Institute for Economic Research. As the Decade of Forgetting lurches on, our self-appointed elites now no longer seem to know about food. For example, a July 20, 2022 headline from the BBC asked “Could grasshoppers really replace beef?” The correct answer — “No” — was of...
Editor’s note: This piece was first published at American Institute for Economic Research. “Misleading,” it says, with an exclamation point inscribed within a red triangle. “Learn about the science behind COVID-19 vaccines and how health officials say they work. Find out more. This Tweet can’t be replied to, shared, or liked.” It’s the current warning...
Editor’s note: This book review by Jon Sanders first appeared at the American Institute for Economic Research. “Jen realized she had never experienced this before — profound cognitive dissonance.” A moment of crisis strikes the title character of George Leef’s new novel, “The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale”(Bombardier Books, 2022). How will Jen handle it? Does she...
Whenever we could, we let the servers, clerks, attendants, small business owners, and others we encountered in our mutually beneficial transactions know that they were welcome to doff the cloth.
The risk of “zero risk” tyranny is far, far too great for me.
“The forgotten man” was how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt characterized ordinary people who needed his New Deal policies to build back up the American economy around them. In her history of the Great Depression titled “The Forgotten Man,” author and economics commentator Amity Schlaes showed that the forgotten men and women were harmed by all...
Jon Sanders, senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the importance of natural immunity and its role in the argument against COVID-19 vaccine passports. Learn more here: “Why powerful natural immunity foils any case for vaccine passports.”
Jon Sanders, senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the role of freedom in meeting society’s needs. Sanders offered these comments during the Aug. 25, 2021, edition of “The Exceptional Conservative Show.”
Jon Sanders, senior fellow in regulatory studies and research editor at the John Locke Foundation, examines excess deaths in North Carolina linked to COVID-19. Learn more here: “North Carolina: No excess deaths from COVID since mid-March.”