Author Archive | Jim
Video: My 40 Year War on Psychiatry
1500+ views on Facebook, 7000+ views on Twitter/X — … Here’s the Mises Institute article that spurred this video: Here’s a pensive screenshot from the start of the video:
My 40 Year War on Psychiatry
My 40 Year War on Psychiatry by James Bovard, June 16, 2026 Forty years ago, I attended the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington and my sanity never recovered. Or at least that is what therapists presume based on my writings about their endless fabrication of bogus mental illnesses. I was attending […]
WSJ: How I Learned Not to Shovel (2011)
Fifteen years ago today, the Wall Street Journal published my memoir story on how the Virginia Highway Department ruined my work ethic for life. . That job taught me more about political economy than I ever learned in a classroom. The photo isn’t me – I doubt the highway department would have kept such photos […]
Time to End TSA License to Loot
Time to End TSA License to Loot By James Bovard For more than a decade, TSA agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. More than 10,000 travelers […]
My Property Rights Memory Lane Day – Wall Street Journal and New York Post
Will Affordability Bankrupt President Trump?
Will Affordability Bankrupt President Trump? by James Bovard Last week, President Trump proudly declared: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations. I don’t think about anybody.” Will his arrogance seal his political doom? In early 2022, I predicted in the New York Post that inflation would politically bankrupt President Joe Biden. Will the affordability issue […]
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Jim
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