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 […]
Will Trump Follow Nixon’s IRS Road to Ruin? by James Bovard, May 8, 2025 On Friday morning, President Trump proclaimed on his Truth Social: “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump is being hailed as a hero for demanding that the IRS bring Harvard University to […]
The Feds Have Been the Main Source of Racial Bigotry in Classrooms by James Bovard, March 18, 2025 “We will not stand idly by while this regime pulls the wool over the eyes of the American people,” proclaimed Sheria Smith, the president of American Federation of Government Employees unit representing more than a thousand federal […]
Richard Morrison of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and I smacked around the feds and bantered over the prospects for Trump, Musk, DOGE, and ever putting a leash on federal agencies. https://x.com/JimBovard/status/1877422695073058948
Libertarian Institute My Tenth Depraved Presidential Election by James Bovard, October 9, 2024 Presidential season is a time for Americans to restore their faith in democracy. How can folks not be filled with gratitude for being permitted a perfunctory choice of who will seize their paychecks and tyrannize them in the following four years? Actually, […]
The Mirage of Honest Government by James Bovard, October 7, 2024 For more than 70 years, America has been on the verge of honest government. In election after election, politicians have promised to finally take this nation to the moral high ground once and for all. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower captured the presidency based in […]
