The 'Truth Will Out' Fairy Tale

Jim is puzzled. Is equality a basis for a free society? Some leading philosophers seem to think so, but Jim is not so sure.

Happy Festivus from Jim Bovard! Jim celebrates with a cheap cigar and a beer. But what beer should he drink?

With the recent death of former president George H.W. Bush, there has been an outpouring of praise for his statesmanship and civility. FFF policy advisor James Bovard know that Bush was no Boy Scout.

Millennials like Communism?!? I was vaccinated against it when I traveled to Romania, dodging secret agent hookers, surly clerks, and gullible guards with machine guns.

Truth will out? Really? Truth will out is the biggest fairy tale in Washington. From the Warren Commission, to the Gulf of Tonkin, to WMD in Iraq, the truth has not accomplished much.

In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, Jim shares one of this biggest blunders in traveling behind the Iron Curtain.

My hitchhiking follies led to a bus station where I met a drunken Vietnam vet who helped me understand atrocities.

Jim Bovard explains how one summer on the government payroll destroyed his work ethic for life.

Have you ever had an enhanced pat-down from a TSA agent? Jim Bovard has–and he didn’t like it.

Bureaucratic bulldozing? Groping TSA agents? Federal secrecy and aggressive prosecution of journalists? This is the legacy that Obama passed to Trump.