As an official Public Policy Hooligan, James Bovard is well-known for some of his zingers. Here are some he wrote in 2025.
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The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they were supposed to work. Unfortunately, the…
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Stephen Slivinski President Trump’s recent Truth Social missive about housing fits the mold of many of his others to date: he identifies an issue (that may or may not be…
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The US Tariff System Has Gotten Even More Complex—and the Supreme Court Won’t Fix It
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Back in December, we showed how measures imposed by the Trump administration in 2025 have made the US tariff system excessively convoluted and complex, and in…
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Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of…
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“Since we were not able to have a new economic era in reality, we insisted on having it in appearance. So we raised nominal wages and incomes; but we paid…
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Vivek Ramaswamy promotes a fictional version of American history in which a handful of people created America and that culture and religion are canceled out by an ideological “creed.” In…
Colleen Hroncich “I was a teacher who always stretched the limits and broke the rules a little bit,” admits Kristin Fink, founder of Skola Microschool in Minnesota. “I loved trying…
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Crispin Sartwell’s Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory and finds much to like.
The Fed is cutting its discount rate again, but Americans will be disappointed with the results, as the Fed’s latest action only contributes to the boom-and-bust cycle.