Bill Kauffman, a founding editor of Front Porch Republic, is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books).
The Empire did not fall the day Front Porch Republic rose. But in 15 years FPR has done much more than simply add weight to the human scale. It has revivified the most humane and practical traditions in American social, cultural, economic, and political life and thought.
The Future of Freedom Foundation has reprinted "The Empire versus Little America," my speech from what was, in a parallel universe, the epochal 2010...
