March 28, 2025, Counterpunch Intellectuals are Washington’s Biggest Bootlickers James Bovard Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Washingtonians become vested in Leviathan the same way that residents of other big cities become vested in their local NFL franchise. Fashionable ideas are the intellectual equivalent of lapel pins of the American flag. Anyone who recites the […]
Leviathan Logic versus Individual Liberty by James Bovard, March 24, 2025 The failure to think clearly about government is one of the greatest sources of tyranny. The history of liberties lost is the history of patterns of abuses ignored and inductions not made. People talk about the importance of ideas in politics. Often, it is […]
Forty Years Sniping at Leviathan by James Bovard | Dec 19, 2024 I have spent decades trying to turn political dirt into philosophic gold. I have yet to discover the alchemist’s trick, but I still have fun with the dirt. I was born in Iowa and raised in the mountains of Virginia. Wheeling and dealing […]
The King James Test for American Democracy by James Bovard On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. Biden’s sweeping pardon of all of his son’s abuses epitomizes how presidents and their families are now […]
Libertarian Institute, January 2, 2024 Bovard’s Zestiest Zingers of 2023 by Jim Bovard | 2023 was another godsend for cynics. Here’s a round-up of my zestiest lines from my articles in the past year. Some lines were tweaked for this collection. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran those articles […]
Brian Wilson and I had fun smacking around the latest Trump indictment, the lies that permeated the Korean and Iraq Wars, and the latest FBI FISA finagling on the latest Two and Only Podcast. You can listen to the 25 minute rowdy discussion here https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/13339855 Be sure to check out Brian’s other sites: Brian Wilson […]
The Iraq War Was a Systematic Atrocity by James Bovard Media coverage of the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War mostly portrayed the war as a blunder. There were systematic war crimes that have largely vanished into the memory hole, but permitting government officials to vaporize their victims paves the way to […]
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