James Bovard
Adjunct Research Fellow
James Bovard is the author of ten books, including Public Policy Hooligan, Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal, and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, and many other publications. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors, a frequent contributor to The Hill, and a contributing editor for American Conservative
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The Civil Service War: Can Trump Succeed Where Other Presidents Failed?
Entrenched bureaucracies are beloved by the media and much of Congress. Will Trump triumph where prior presidents blundered and backtracked?
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Can Patel Leash the FBI?
Congress and federal courts have enabled the agency’s power-hungry and corrupt dealings.
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Industrial Policy Returns, Prior Pratfalls Notwithstanding
“Letting politicians pick winners is the surest recipe for shafting consumers and every unsubsidized business. Unfortunately, there will always be enough pundits who failed Econ 101 to whoop up every boneheaded intervention.” ~ James Bovard
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Lessons From Biden’s Disinformation Board Debacle
“The trillions of pages of new secrets that the U.S. government creates each year is a disinformation entitlement program. In a city that already had hundreds of full-time political appointees whose task is to lie to the America public, why was another board needed?” ~ James Bovard
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Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
“Federal health agencies have had more blunders than practically anyone expected during this pandemic. The least that Uncle Sam can do is get out of the way of private efforts to help Americans recognize the risks in their own lives.” ~ James Bovard
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Corrupt Federal Statistics Mask Government Cons
“Politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.” ~ James Bovard
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Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan
“The fact that top CIA and FBI officials made false allegations against the Trump presidential campaign was irrelevant as long as the resulting investigations undercut the most hated president since Richard Nixon.” ~ James Bovard
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D.C.’s “Best Information Available” Charade
“Americans need their own ‘best information available’ axiom to automatically reject assertions from media outlets that shamelessly kowtow to politicians and government agencies.” ~ James Bovard
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Covid and Corrupt Federal Statistics
“Bureaucracies conspire against admitting their failures, and politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.” ~ James Bovard
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Raiding the World Bank: Exposing a Fondness for Dictators
“After exiting bank headquarters, I paused on K Street, skimmed the first pages, and knew I had struck gold. Back in my home office, I called the gutsiest editor I knew—Tim Ferguson, the editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal.” ~ James Bovard
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The Civil Service War: Can Trump Succeed Where Other Presidents Failed?
Entrenched bureaucracies are beloved by the media and much of Congress. Will Trump triumph where prior presidents blundered and backtracked?
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•
Can Patel Leash the FBI?
Congress and federal courts have enabled the agency’s power-hungry and corrupt dealings.
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Industrial Policy Returns, Prior Pratfalls Notwithstanding
“Letting politicians pick winners is the surest recipe for shafting consumers and every unsubsidized business. Unfortunately, there will always be enough pundits who failed Econ 101 to whoop up every boneheaded intervention.” ~ James Bovard
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Lessons From Biden’s Disinformation Board Debacle
“The trillions of pages of new secrets that the U.S. government creates each year is a disinformation entitlement program. In a city that already had hundreds of full-time political appointees whose task is to lie to the America public, why was another board needed?” ~ James Bovard
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Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
“Federal health agencies have had more blunders than practically anyone expected during this pandemic. The least that Uncle Sam can do is get out of the way of private efforts to help Americans recognize the risks in their own lives.” ~ James Bovard
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Corrupt Federal Statistics Mask Government Cons
“Politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.” ~ James Bovard
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Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan
“The fact that top CIA and FBI officials made false allegations against the Trump presidential campaign was irrelevant as long as the resulting investigations undercut the most hated president since Richard Nixon.” ~ James Bovard
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•
D.C.’s “Best Information Available” Charade
“Americans need their own ‘best information available’ axiom to automatically reject assertions from media outlets that shamelessly kowtow to politicians and government agencies.” ~ James Bovard
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•
Covid and Corrupt Federal Statistics
“Bureaucracies conspire against admitting their failures, and politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.” ~ James Bovard
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Raiding the World Bank: Exposing a Fondness for Dictators
“After exiting bank headquarters, I paused on K Street, skimmed the first pages, and knew I had struck gold. Back in my home office, I called the gutsiest editor I knew—Tim Ferguson, the editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal.” ~ James Bovard