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Boston Globe 1978: My First Attack on the Postal Monopoly

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 […]

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Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue?

American Conservative, April 11, 2024 Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue? by James Bovard The word games around “content moderation” recall the days of “enhanced interrogation.” During last month’s Supreme Court hearing on a landmark case on federal censorship, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson declared, “My biggest concern is…the First Amendment hamstringing the government […]

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40 Years of Pummeling the Postal Service

[the full text of many of the articles mentioned here are posted here] Mises Institute, July 27, 2018 40 Years of Pummeling the Postal Service by James Bovard Today is the 40th anniversary of the publication of my first attack on the Postal Service. “Time to Stamp Out the Postal Monopoly” was the lead article […]

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