The New York Times, July 30, 1989, THE WORLD BANK; Fostering America’s Interests Abroad . . . But It Lends to Oppressive Regimes BYLINE: By JAMES BOVARD; James Bovard is an adjunct analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and author of ”The Farm Fiasco.” Barber Conable, the former New York Congressman, took over […]
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.
New York Post, January 10, 2026 Mayor Mamdani’s collectivist warmth is a lot like chilly Commie Bucharest by James Bovard Mayor Mamdani promised New Yorkers Jan. 1 he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Luckily, psychiatrists have not yet classified “rugged individualism” as a mental illness. But Mamdani’s vision […]
Wall Street Journal Europe, January 25, 1987. Bartering Across East Bloc Borders by James Bovard Socialism makes bad neighbors. This past summer, a Czech border guard stopped a Polish family leaving Czechloslovakia and ordered a Polish kid to take off his new Czech shoes “because taking children’s shoes out of the country is prohibited.” The […]
Update: Here’s a more recent piece I wrote on the World Bank continuing to finance tyrants. A U.N. Special Rapporteur reported in 2015 that the World Bank’s approach “to human rights is incoherent, counterproductive and unsustainable. For most purposes, the World Bank is a human rights-free zone.” Mises Institute, December 13, 2021 Raiding the World […]
American Conservative, June 26, 2020 The Korean War Atrocities No One Wants to Talk About For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons. by Jim Bovard June 25th was the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. […]
Mises Brasil [thanks for translating! Original English version is here; my 1987 Wall Street Journal oped is here] Alguns fatos cômicos (e patéticos) sobre o comércio internacional dentro do bloco soviético by James Bovard, November 12, 2019 Quando não estão matando, socialistas são uma comédia de erros Uma das maiores contribuições de Ludwig von […]
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