James Bovard

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Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance

11/12/2025 Mises Wire James Bovard

The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why.

On Veterans Day, Remember the Lies That Filled Military Cemeteries

11/11/2025 Mises Wire James Bovard

A few hours studying the lessons of history can prevent heaps of grave-digging in the coming years. None of the veterans we celebrate on Veterans Day died protecting freedom in the US.

Henry David Thoreau and the Well-Worn Road to Serfdom

09/25/2025 Mises Wire James Bovard

Henry David Thoreau is supposedly an American icon and his Walden an alleged work of genius. In truth, Thoreau was a fraud and his anti-capitalist screeds were intellectually and economically incoherent.

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Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance

11/13/2025 James Bovard

Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty

10/28/2025 James Bovard

James Bovard makes a case that private property is the bulwark of liberty—spotlighting how courts, cops, and bureaucrats chip away at it.

My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress

07/14/2025 James Bovard

Although most political attention is focused on the US presidency, James Bovard pleads guilty to contempt of Congress. This is the Congress that is spending and borrowing the country into financial oblivion, but never taking the blame for the results.

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