From Biden’s Potemkin Presidency to Trump’s Potemkin War By James Bovard In this age of social media and A.I. illusions, an old Russian scam provides the best lens to understand America’s two most recent presidents. In eighteenth-century czarist Russia, a fake village was built by a Russian governor named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin to deceive […]
On this day in 1978, my first op-ed appeared in a major newspaper. The Boston Globe published my attack on the Postal Service with a kick-ass headline that made even me smile: “Time to Stamp Out the Postal Monopoly.” Looking at the recent scanned image, I suspect the years have been hard on that photocopy […]
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.
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charles bukowski
Trump caused this. Do Not Forget.
