Author Archives: Bill Kauffman

For President Buchanan

Posted on May 31, 2013

The screenwriter of the new Civil War movie “Copperhead” on historical fiction and one of America’s least loved leaders.

Look Homeward, Devil

Posted on March 15, 2013

The tenth anniversary of a little book about the America overshadowed by war: Dispatches From the Muckdog Gazette.

The Utica Club

Posted on February 15, 2013

Pledging allegiance to Little America

I Clean My Gun and Dream of Galveston

Posted on December 4, 2012

A dispatch from Glen Campbell’s valedictory tour

Who Needs a President?

Posted on November 5, 2012

The Founders’ greatest error

Party Animus

Posted on October 9, 2012

Why your vote doesn’t matter

My Pen Pal Gore Vidal

Posted on September 14, 2012

A life in letters

Just Deseret

Posted on August 8, 2012

How I learned to love LDS

Rocky’s Drug War

Posted on July 6, 2012

The continuing toll of Nelson Rockefeller’s prison-industrial complex

Ballot of a Thin Man

Posted on June 1, 2012

The Paul campaign calls to mind the rebellious ethos of 1980s punks.

How I Met Eldridge Cleaver

Posted on May 8, 2012

Bill Kauffman reflects on a quarter-century of notable interlocutors

Peckinpah Country

Posted on March 29, 2012

I’m on one of my periodic Sam Peckinpah benders. (“You call that …

Planet of the Japes

Posted on February 1, 2012

This article appears in the February 2012 issue of The American Conservative.

Iowa Votes for Peace

Posted on December 29, 2011

Our daughter will be spending the snowy months rehearsing her role as …

Redford Goes Ron Paul

Posted on December 2, 2011

Even the most dedicated cinephile may have blinked last spring and missed …

The Last Picture Show

Posted on October 13, 2011

Another summer has slipped away, he said in melancholic stupor.  Thank God …

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