Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman
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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).

Recent Essays

Clevelands Rock

From The American Conservative, the love story of Frankie and Uncle Jumbo.

Remembering Leonard Liggio

Ralph Raico eulogizes his old friend and fellow Youth for Taft Leonard Liggio, a sweet and erudite man.

I Wish That I Had Jesse’s Book

Walker, that is. His The United States of Paranoia is out today in paperback. Buy, read, enjoy.

Melancholy Late August Turns Melancholier

Our archrival of 75 years, Jamestown, leaves the New York-Penn League.

A Quaker for Peace

From The American Conservative, my remembrance of Robert D. Stuart Jr., whose family knew oatmeal.

Thoroughly Anti-Modern Milius

On John Milius, writer-director-surfer-anarchist, from The American Conservative.

Who Owns America?

In The American Conservative, Ralph Nader, paladin of the American anti-monopolist tradition, revives the great distributist-agrarian project of the 1930s.

First Dandelions of the Year Today!

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children...

The Front Page

On Howard Owens and the relocalization of American journalism.

What Do You Feel Like Doing Tonight, Angie?

Let's rent (or buy!) Copperhead, which is being released today on DVD/BluRay.

Irish Spring (’14 Issue)

From Notre Dame Magazine, the always excellent Jay Walljasper on the promise of the Front Porch.

A Good Essayist is Hard to Find

Wiseblood Books is about to publish Dana Gioia's superb "The Catholic Writer Today" as the first in its series of "Wiseblood Essays in Contemporary...