James Bovard

Articles

03/31/2025 Mises Wire James Bovard

On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a...

The Feds Have Been the Main Source of Racial Bigotry in Classrooms

03/18/2025 Mises Wire James Bovard

“We will not stand idly by while this regime pulls the wool over the eyes of the American people,” proclaimed Sheria Smith, the president of American Federation of Government Employees unit...

Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed Covid Tyranny

03/11/2025 Mises Wire James Bovard

Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock...

Media

Covid Tyrants Partied While Demanding Lockdowns for Everyone Else

10/11/2024 James Bovard

Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened.

TSA Tyranny Goes Cutesy

09/12/2024 James Bovard

The TSA's record for incompetence is astounding, even for a government agency. Any complaints, as this article shows, will be seen as subversion.

Kamala’s press chief tried to censor me

08/20/2024 James Bovard

While Kamala Harris accuses Republicans of censoring books and library materials, her press secretary, Brian Fallon, tried to censor opinion articles critical of Eric Holder and the Department of Justice during the Obama years.

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