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This is the anniversary of the 1964 release of the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The New York Times has reposted its front-page story from that day here. The Times’ notes that the Warren Commission report “listed as factors that might have led Oswald to the assassination ‘his deep-rooted […]

The good folks at Daily Bell interviewed me last week. Here is the result: James Bovard on His Famous Libertarian Books, America’s Failing Freedom and ‘Why Life Is too Short to Drink Bad Beer’Sunday, September 25, 2011 – with Anthony Wile Introduction: James Bovard is the author of nine books, including Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), […]

The Wall Street Journal published 3 letters today in response to my piece last week on the failure of federal job training programs. The second letter perplexed me: Surely Bob Dole, Howard Baker, Orrin Hatch, Dan Quayle, Nancy Kassebaum, Jim Jeffords, Mike DeWine and Mike Enzi were not supporting “overlap and duplication . . . […]

One of the most eloquent defenders of freedom has a new book that captures the breadth of his thought over more than 5 decades. The Szasz Quotationary: The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Szasz has just been released in Kindle form. You can purchase the book from Amazon here. Though Szasz is a native Hungarian, […]

  As a paranoid book promoter, I can truly appreciate this cartoon. At least this blog never has any knitting references. [great Roz Chast cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]

Scott Horton and I had a jolly round of target shooting at some of the ludicrous ideas driving the war on terrorism. You can hear (or download) the 19 minute interview’s MP3 file /podcast by clicking on scott-horton-antiwar-11_09_16_bovard

WBAL’s Ron Smith and I had a rollicking good chat on Tuesday on federal training farces. You can hear or download the show by clicking on the following: ron-smith-9-13-2011-80035-bovard1 ron-smith-9-13-2011-80035-bovard2