Obama had far worse economic policies than most Americans recall, beating the bushes to sway more Americans to take federal handouts. His civil liberties policies were also dreadful. Hat tip to Muriel for the great question after my speech that spurred my riff on dodging border guards and sub-machine guns in the East Bloc in […]
Economics professor Charlotte Twight passed away this past week. She was a courageous and principled opponent of the federal abuse of power across the board. Her training as a lawyer was a huge asset in her analyses of the rascalities of federal agencies. I exchanged some emails with her over the decades but didn’t have […]
My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism & Tyranny” Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin’s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic. Some excerpts: “Flattery ruins more politicians than sex.” “It is an old […]
Here’s two minutes of my spiel at an April 2005 debate including Pat Buchanan on civil liberties and the war on terrorism. I was hitting the themes from my book Terrorism and Tyranny (2003) and Bush Betrayal (2004).
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.
UPDATE: 7,000+ views on Twitter/X & Facebook My Waco finale from the 1994 Second Amendment Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. “The federal government’s assault on gun owners is part of a general attack on the people’s rights and liberties.” Text: Here we are, barely a year after Waco, and when the federal reports […]
Almost 10,000 views on Facebook and Twitter/X so far Here’s a link to my 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, discussed in this speech. Full version of the speech here
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