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

Carl Oglesby, RIP

Carl Oglesby, former president of Students for a Democratic Society and folk-singing prophet of Middle American anti-imperialism, died Tuesday. Herewith an interview I conducted with...

The Cynic by the Bay

From today's Wall Street Journal, my review of the Library of America's Ambrose Bierce omnibus:

Up with Summer, Down with Empire!

So say the signers (including four Front Porch-sitters) of this letter (www.comehomeamerica.us) from the nascent antiwar group Come Home, America. The permanent warfare state ill...

We Should Be Together…

If you be in or around Washingtron on Sunday, June 19, join Dan McCarthy, Ralph Nader, Kelley Vlahos, Kevin Zeese, and Marc Steiner to...

Wilson’s Picket

Wherein we go hopping down Bunny's trail: www.amconmag.com/blog/wilsons-picket/

Wither the State?

At ISI's First Principles site, Matthew Spalding and I consider how best to defang Leviathan.

Never Mind the Umpire; Kill the Sound Effects Guy!

Alan Pell Crawford on trying to find a baseball game amidst the FUNN in Richmond. Things are better in Batavia, though my friend Tom...

Georgics on My Mind

With avidity and pleasure I’ve been reading American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land, a collection of excerpts in the American agrarian...

Going Home

The South, repatriated ex-slave Ned Douglass lectured his Louisiana neighbors in Ernest J. Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, is “yours because...

What Rebelled First: The Chicken or the Egg?

Reason magazine's Jesse Walker notes an outbreak of nullification, dairy-style, in Maine:  http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/22/food-nullification

California Splitter

These days I care more about the results of local sporting events than I do national or out-of-state elections, but I was pleased that...

They Were Expendable

JL Strickland, former Alabama mill worker and self-proclaimed "Linthead Emeritus," on a boy and a town: two more casualties of the deeply anti-American American...