James Bovard

Laurence Vance, one of the most hard-hitting critics of America’s idiotic wars, has a new book entitled The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom. Laurence does an excellent job of exposing the hypocrisy underlying the drug war, the various ways the drug war subverts the Constitution, and the horrendous effects of our drug […]

At 1 p.m. today, I will be interviewed by Scott Horton, the best libertarian radio host on the air in the nation. Scott finished reading Public Policy Hooligan a couple days ago. Scott was disappointed to hear of my long history of failing to get along with the authorities, but he is still willing to […]

From the Future of Freedom, published by The Future of Freedom Foundation – If you enjoy this article, you might also enjoy Public Policy Hooligan – my new memoir about hounding federal bureaucrats – and other adventures. Available now on Amazon Kindle. The Federal Wetlands War, Part 2 by James Bovard In August 1993, the […]

Ben Stone interviewed me yesterday, and he has just put the podcast online at the Bad Quaker site. Ben’s interviews are also broadcast on the Liberty Radio Network. Ben and I had a rattlin’ good chat about Public Policy Hooligan. Ben was especially interested in my secret recipe for marijuana brownies, my path-breaking work at […]

The audio of this morning’s interview with Ernest Hancock on Public Policy Hooligan is now online – at the bottom of the page linked below. Ernie is on the video – I don’t have a camcom gizmo, but that’s for the best because people always tell me that I have a good face for radio. […]

As part of the terms of my parole, I whittled up some memoir essays which are now available as an Amazon ebook titled Public Policy Hooligan. It’s the story of going from Helltown to Washington – lots of mischief (and police encounters) along the way. There is a chapter about my clashes with the FBI […]

Apropos that previous blog entry, software challenges are assuring that I do fail to meet my holiday season profanity quota. I’m trying to convert an  MS Word document into a Kindle format, and have it finessed – except for one minor glitch…. jim@jimbovard.com