# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bovard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:53:29.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bovard"
name: "James Bovard"
slug: "james-bovard"
description: "James Bovard is an American libertarian author and lecturer whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government. He is a USA Today columnist and is a frequent contributor to The Hill. He is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy and nine other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, The American Conservative, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Bovard_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             12.75
  historical:           6.140893333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Bovard"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "چيمس بوڤارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bovard"
    title: "James Bovard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bovard"
    title: "James Bovard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bovard"
    title: "James Bovard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bovard"
    title: "James Bovard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "جیمز بوورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1275565"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump