Afghan Lessons for American Democracy by James Bovard After Al Qaeda terrorists used Afghanistan for training bases for the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan and quickly routed the Taliban government. President George W. Bush boasted that U.S. troops brought freedom and democracy to Afghanistan. But rather than democracy, the United States brought Hamid […]
From my 2025 Mises Institute Summit speech: James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each erodes privacy and freedom.
Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy and I had a rollicking time rehashing the crimes and outrages of Ruby Ridge on his podcast.
The Supreme Court will hear the Alaska airplane beer robbery case I discussed last October at the Mises Institute Summit last October in Florida. Congratulations to the Institute for Justice and Dan Alban on another great forfeiture case.
Here’s my 1996 spiel on Ruby Ridge from Stanford University. Ruby Ridge epitomized federal atrocities & federal oppression for millions of Americans.
On this day in 2012, Barron’s published my guest editorial on “Potomac River Blindness” – Washington’s bipartisan conspiracy against prosperity and freedom. In the subsequent 14 years, politicians and the federal government have become far more wasteful & ruinous. “Washingtonians view each billion dollars of government spending as magic beans that automatically sow blessings across […]
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