Also posted on Zero Hedge, Eurasia Review, LewRockwell.com, Vogan (Italian translation), Before It’s News, NewsNet (France), Instituto Rothbardo (Brazil/Portuguese) Henry David Thoreau and the Well-Worn Road to Serfdom 09/25/2025 • Mises Wire • James Bovard Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay […]
nypost.com Blame Thoreau for saphead leftists like Zohran Mamdani James Bovard New York City is on the verge of electing a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” Zohran Mamdani, as mayor. How did so many New Yorkers become so clueless about how the world works? Some of the blame goes back to Henry David Thoreau, a colicky 19th-century […]
David Knight and I had a rowdy exchange today on how the British were bayoneting Americans down the road to serfdom in 1775. Our interview was spurred by my article, “1775: Putting Tyrants on the Run.” You can view the 56 minute show by clicking here – or you can listen to the audio by […]
Counterpunch, July 22, 2020 Losing Thoreau in Boston by James Bovard Henry David Thoreau has inspired generation of Americans to live fuller, freer lives. From his story of spending a night in jail as a tax protestor in “Civil Disobedience” to his chronicle of solitary living in Walden, Thoreau reached higher ground by going against […]
Karl Marx and the Great Socialist Revival by James Bovard January 9, 2019 Socialism’s popularity is reviving in America. Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez captured a seat in the new Congress and is calling for confiscatory tax rates at the same time Democratic Socialist candidates are thriving in many areas of the nation. The Washington Post reported […]
It’s a coin toss which is more damnably confounding – contemporary journalism or contemporary philosophy. Reminded of this conundrum by the latest New Yorker article whooping up Elizabeth Anderson, a University of Michigan philosophy professor, as the great hope for American equality. The 8000-word profile was an exercise in faith building which failed to sway […]
USA TODAY, May 5, 2018 Don’t celebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a death count in the millions. James Bovard, Opinion columnist Published 6:00 a.m. ET May 5, 2018 It’s Karl Marx’s 200th birthday, but there’s nothing to celebrate. His dream of a utopia lead to millions of deaths at the hands of tyrants. […]
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