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.
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Supreme Court Takes Airplane Beer Robbery Landmark Case
The Supreme Court will hear the Alaska airplane beer robbery case I discussed last October at the Mises Institute Summit last October in Florida. Congratulations to the Institute for Justice and Dan Alban on another great forfeiture case.
My Property Rights Memory Lane Day – Wall Street Journal and New York Post
Wall Street Journal: This Is No Way to Preserve History (1993)
On this day in 1993… The Wall Street Journal Thursday, May 13, 1993 This Is No Way to Preserve History By James Bovard This is National Preservation Week. While Americans have commendably become more interested in their past, historic preservation itself has unfortunately become a pretext for mass confiscation. In hundreds of locales, the […]
Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium
Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium by Jim Bovard | Nov 19, 2025 Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. […]
Supreme Court: The Dog That Didn’t Bark
Mises Institute, September 26, 2018 The Supreme Court: The Dog that Didn’t Bark by James Bovard The furor over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is spurring many commentators to bewail that the Supreme Court has become too powerful. But the real problem is that the Court is now often little more than a fig leaf […]
FFF: Supreme Demolition for the Raisin Racket
From the Future of Freedom Foundation – Supreme Demolition for the Raisin Racket by James Bovard The December 2013 Future of Freedom contained my article “A Supreme Rebuff for USDA’s Ruinous Raisin Regime.” The legal case surrounding that controversy kept percolating in the courts for another 18 months. The Obama administration won a big victory […]
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“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
Montaigne also wrote: Laws remain in credit not be