The latest Brian Wilson “Two and Only” – “Something Completely Different” podcast: “In this week’s exciting adventure, the Two and Only discuss President Biden’s trip to Ireland, beer (of course), Farm subsidies, agriculture and chicken farming, Food Stamps and obesity and… witch hazel.” Once again, Brian accused me of being from West Virginia. Proof that […]
“Why is Mr. Bovard considered so out of it in other words?” PBS Newshour host Jim Lehrer asked the other panelists as a 1990 brawl on farm subsidies wrapped up. Shocked, shocked that PBS considered me a radical…. Jim Lehrer passed away today. He was a legend of Washington broadcast journalism – a gracious host […]
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 […]
Mises Institute, January 17, 2019 FDR’s Worst Perversion of Freedom: The “Four Freedoms” Speech by James Bovard Franklin Roosevelt did more than any other modern president to corrupt Americans’ understanding of freedom. Last week was the 75th anniversary of his 1944 speech calling for a second Bill of Rights to guarantee economic freedom to Americans. […]
Here’s a link to my speech at the Mises Institute Austrian Economics Research Conference this past weekend in Auburn, Alabama. I appreciated the opportunity to pay my respects to Leviathan. I will be posting a few outtakes from this speech in followup blog posts. Mises President Jeff Deist featured much of the speech on his […]
I was rummaging through old files tonight and stumbled across this profile from 30 years ago. Charles Clark did a kindly write-up which I much appreciated. The World Bank hated me back then so National Journal photographer Richard Bloom and I tromped there for a cigar photo in front of their entrance on a bitter cold […]
USA Today, April 4, 2017. Woodrow Wilson made democracy unsafe for the world: James Bovard by James Bovard Let’s stop kidding ourselves. The U.S. role in World War I had disastrous consequences. This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate […]
