Two years after 9/11 attacks, CSPAN Booknotes host Brian Lamb asked me: Have we lost control of government forever? My answer was grim and subsequent events have comforted cynics everywhere.
Tag Archives | Cynicism
WSJ: How I Learned Not to Shovel (2011)
Fifteen years ago today, the Wall Street Journal published my memoir story on how the Virginia Highway Department ruined my work ethic for life. . That job taught me more about political economy than I ever learned in a classroom. The photo isn’t me – I doubt the highway department would have kept such photos […]
Dilbert vs. Leviathan: Scott Adams’s Greatest Hits
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave Dilbert to the world, passed away in January after a hard fight against cancer. His glorious BS radar deserves to be prominently displayed in the Smithsonian Institute. No one had a sharper ear than Adams for contemporary American bloviating.
Will Trump Get Evicted from Supreme Court Like I Did?
President Trump is going to listen to a case argued today at the Supreme Court. When I went to that court to cover a case for Playboy, I was ejected from the press box because I laughed at the wrong time. My @washingtonpost piece on the episode Washington Post, May 3, 2017 Arresting someone for laughing […]
My 2025 Epigrams: Cynicism Redeemed
Cynicism Redeemed: My 2025 Epigrams by James Bovard 2025 was another great year for scoffing at politicians and Washington. Here are some of the zestiest lines from articles I wrote last year. Trump Returns “Trump’s economic victory proclamations are akin to a bad magician whose tricks are so lame that his audience starts to heckle […]
N.Y. Post: The Joy of Dilbert
I will post a link to the online version of the text when it goes live at the New York Post webpage. I will also be making & posting a video with comments on some of my fav Dilbert strips. Here’s the piece: Opinion PostScript The joy of Dilbert: Scott Adams brightened our lives by […]
My 46 Years Contempt of Congress
My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress 07/15/2025 • Mises Wire • by James Bovard “Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it somewhere else!” I growled standing by the apartment cluster mailbox on a sultry afternoon of July 3, 1979. “Did […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
Montaigne also wrote: Laws remain in credit not be
Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay
Longsword
Tim willocks Twelve children of paris. Extremely