Idealism

National Intergenerational Month: Talking about Trees

I do ground-truthing from a very folksy and small-townish perspective. I have found myself “stuck” here on the Central Oregon Coast, really, where my own destiny seems etched in the crumbling sandstone holding up the tourist-laden Highway 101. I’ve exhausted the labor market here, since the school district has banned me as a substitute teacher […]

“Go Get Him!??” Carping on Biden’s State of the Union Address

Biden’s speech ended with a bizarre shout: “Go get him!” Everyone mystified so far by that closing. Hearty thanks to the Ron Paul Institute for their kind words on this post: Jim Bovard is an authentic American hero. There is truly no one like him in journalism today. Read everything he writes. Listen to everything […]
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Biden’s Summit on Democracy – My Tweets

Biden complains about a "democracy recession" but so many of the leaders speaking at his Summit for Democracy have acted like elective dictators. — James Bovard (@JimBovard) December 9, 2021 How many of the "civil society leaders" speaking at Biden's Summit for Democracy are actually on government payrolls, directly or indirectly? — James Bovard (@JimBovard) […]
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Does New Age Mysticism REALLY Explain Quantum Physics? Communist Theory of Mind Says No

Orientation From Marxism to de Chardin, General Systems Theory to Buckminster Fuller Around 1975, it dawned on me that the revolutionary times of the 1960s were not coming back. I still considered myself a council communist but I felt something was missing. I thought Marxism needed to be seen within a larger framework. I began […]

Obama and the Death of Idealism

French version Italian version Catalonian version American Conservative, December 3, 2020 Barack Obama and the Death of Idealism Obama’s deception and warmongering killed the “hope and change” he promised on the campaign trail. We shouldn’t be sad to see them go. by  James Bovard Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, […]
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Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War”

Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War” by James Bovard August 25, 2020 This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister […]
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