James Bovard

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James Bovard is the author of ten books, including 2012’s Public Policy Hooligan, and 2006’s Attention Deficit Democracy. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, and many other publications.

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Trump's Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion

Blog02/07/2019James Bovard

Tuesday night, Donald Trump claimed that Americans have always been free and "will stay free" of "government coercion." The U.S. regime's many victims would probably beg to differ.

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FDR’s Worst Perversion of Freedom: The "Four Freedoms" Speech

U.S. History

Blog01/17/2019James Bovard

In 1944, Roosevelt revealed that the original Bill of Rights had “proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.” So he proposed to replace it with something far worse.

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Karl Marx and the Great Socialist Revival

Big GovernmentSocialism

Blog01/10/2019James Bovard

As decades pass since the fall of the USSR, romanticism is replacing the bitter facts of the lives people in communist regimes were forced to live

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Vox Continues to Sell the "Benefits" of Socialism

Socialism

12/13/2018Power & MarketJames Bovard

Vox is whooping up the wacky notion that “sex was better under socialism.” Tell that to Romanian women forced to undergo monthly gyno exams to outlaw abortions because the government proclaimed in 1985 that “the fetus is the socialist property of the whole society… Those who refuse to have...