James Bovard

James Bovard (/bəˈvɑːrd/; born 1956) is a libertarian author and lecturer whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government. He is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, The American Conservative, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.

Bibliography

  • Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates American Competitiveness. Palgrave Macmillan. 1992. ISBN 0-312-08344-0. 
  • Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. Palgrave Macmillan. 1995. ISBN 0-312-12333-7. 
  • (1996) Shakedown
  • Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen. Palgrave Macmillan. 2000. ISBN 0-312-22967-4. 
  • Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years. Palgrave Macmillan. 2001. ISBN 0-312-24052-X. 
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    We Remember How Politicians Unleashed COVID Tyranny. They’ll do it again if we let them. By Jim Bovard . The Mises Institute. Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom ... I warned ... Fauci” placards.

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    The Manila Times 06 Mar 2025
    Jim Bovard, a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, replied with an article about how he has been critical of the organization for 40 years ... In a 2006 piece for The American Conservative, Bovard ...
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