SCOTUS Strikes a Blow against Public School Indoctrination of Young Children 06/30/2025 • Mises Wire • James Bovard On Friday, the Supreme Court clobbered perhaps America’s most aggressive and intolerant LGBTQ+ school indoctrination program. By a vote of 6 to 3 in the case of Mahmoud v.Taylor, the court upheld parents’ right to exempt their […]
The Good Intentions License for Tyranny by James Bovard “He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a right to boundless power. The Trump presidency is already spurring legal battles across […]
Trump’s Iran Bombing Is the Latest in Presidential Absolutism by James Bovard, American Conservative June 26, 2025 Does President Trump have any legal basis for his foreign policy actions aside from his personal entitlement to absolute power? Presidents have been scorning congressional leashes on their foreign interventions since at least the Korean War. But […]
Mencken’s Forgotten Wisdom on War by James Bovard, June 25, 2025 Libertarian Institute As a stampede of weasels just sought to con America into supporting another Mideast war, it is time remember America’s most underrated critic of bellicose folly. H.L. Mencken is famous for his smackdowns of politicians and ridicule of government and of much […]
Trump bombs Iran to prove his devotion to peace. Trump supporters break all their previous records on groveling
Here’s a piece I wrote in 2003 after the President George W. Bush’s initial victory laps on the Iraq War: “The Folly of Invading Iran.” That piece concluded: “If Bush advisors want to conquer Tehran, let them do it themselves.” Same is true today for Trump and his bellicose bootlickers. The Folly of Invading Iran […]
Will Trump attack Iran and destroy his presidency and legacy? Is Trump hellbent on becoming the political reincarnation of George W. Bush? Also, killing a heap of innocent foreigners would ricochet disastrously on Americans. But in Washington, the advocates of mass carnage continue to be hailed as if they were the true friends of humanity. […]
