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Twenty Years Now, Where’d They Go?

The Future of Freedom Foundation has reprinted "The Empire versus Little America," my speech from what was, in a parallel universe, the epochal 2010 conference that begat the peace group Come Home,…
Bill Kauffman
September 10, 2016

The Future of Freedom Foundation has reprinted “The Empire versus Little America,” my speech from what was, in a parallel universe, the epochal 2010 conference that begat the peace group Come Home, America. This gives me an excuse to tell you that my 1995 opuscule America First! Its History, Culture, and Politics, has just been reissued in paperback, with a new preface and epilogue by yours truly. Did I predict, one score ago, pretty much everything that would happen in 2016? Kind of and sort of, to use the two favorite verbal crutches of NPR guests. Just call me Nostradamus. Or, in my wife’s mocking-of-my-mien formulation, Nostrildamus.

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Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.