DOGE is dead — long live Washington boondoggles! By James Bovard, November 30, 2025 New York Post DOGE is dead. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” the “perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of […]
This old article popped up in a Google search so I figured I would send it for another lap around the track. The Freeman, December 1987 (Foundation for Economic Education) Jamaica: No Free Market, No Miracle by James Bovard James Bovard, a widely published writer on economic affairs, writes frequently on international developments. An earlier […]
My old friend Ernie Hancock and I had a rowdy time this morn on his Freedoms Phoenix Radio Show. Ernie kindly asked for a summary of Public Policy Hooligan and I specified that most of the book does not involve people trying to stab me. Ernie asked about the scandal in my old hometown, Front […]
This is the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, which St. Martin’s Press described as a “bestseller” for at least a decade after its release. Thanks to everyone who bought the book and double-thanks to everyone who whooped it up. I especially want to thank folks who wrote […]
Former senator Richard Lugar died yesterday at age 87. He was from Indiana and he understood farm policy far better than most members of Congress. I briefly met him a time or two; he and I were both speakers at a farm credit conference in Nashville in the early 1990s. (My other memory of that […]
Was doing a Google search today and surprised to see my 1985/1990 New York Times oped on Bankrupt Environmentalism listed as one of the first responses in the New York Times search engine on environmentalism. I thought everybody had forgotten about that particular heresy. (The piece originally appeared in 1985, thanks to editor Robert Semple, […]
Geoffrey Britain
"On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt commanded all ci
Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so
Jim
thanks very much!
Rich Weyhe
Incredibly well written and informative.
