James Bovard
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Author of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty & 10 other books. Articles at @nypost @thehill @latimes @amconmag @wsj @nyt @Usatoday Bd of Contributors
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jimbovard.com | James Bovard
“If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump administration’s censorship zealotry. On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts.
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jimbovard.com | James Bovard
By on My old friend Gardner Goldsmith and I had fun thumping the feds on Tax Day. We bantered about where Trump is going – is he verging on “full Nixonian” on some of the crackdowns on foreign students, immigrants, and other targets? Here is Gard’s summary of the show: we “dig into the troubling Trump Admin.
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libertarianinstitute.org | Jim Bovard |James Bovard
On Tax Day, politicians and mainstream media will hector Americans to be grateful for the opportunity to pay their taxes. The Internal Revenue Service website touts a moth-eaten quote from a dead Supreme Court Justice: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” But recent history is the best antidote to groveling in gratitude to the federal agency that commandeers a lion’s share of your income.
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2 weeks ago |
jimbovard.com | James Bovard
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jimbovard.com | James Bovard
by James Bovard, April 10, 2025“For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike,” President Trump declared last week when he proclaimed a national emergency and imposed the highest tariffs since the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930. US stock markets lost more than $6 trillion in value and fierce controversies are raging over whether Trump is rescuing or ruining the economy.
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