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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.

Articles by Bill Kauffman

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 Carl for Reason magazine and a…
September 14, 2011

The Cynic by the Bay

From today's Wall Street Journal, my review of the Library of America's Ambrose Bierce omnibus:
August 25, 2011

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 serves Americans; shall we give the…
July 5, 2011

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 discuss how patriots of left, right,…
June 14, 2011

Wilson’s Picket

Wherein we go hopping down Bunny's trail: www.amconmag.com/blog/wilsons-picket/
June 9, 2011

Wither the State?

At ISI's First Principles site, Matthew Spalding and I consider how best to defang Leviathan.
May 14, 2011

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 Williams and I annually threaten to…
May 11, 2011

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 tradition edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein,…
April 28, 2011

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 your people’s bones lays in it;…
April 15, 2011

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
March 23, 2011

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 Golden Staters put Jerry Brown back…
March 14, 2011

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 Empire: www.ComeHomeAmerica.us.
March 4, 2011