Author Archives: Bill Kauffman
The Tale of Carlos
Remembering an old D.C. friend who took his own life.
Thinking About Dead Libertarians
Old-school intellectuals like Rothbard and Childs defied the stereotypes of their philosophy with their wit and generosity.
An Armenian Rhapsody
Why do their films, including those about the genocide, always get the shaft from Hollywood?
We Could Use a Shelby Foote Today
One of the greatest Civil War historians saw nobility in the stars and bars.
He Was a Lifelong Buddy
And he doesn’t belong in a cage. Coping when a dear friend is sentenced to prison.
Loyalty to Place Can Renew American Towns
Our hometowns—or the places we make our hometowns—deserve our love.
The Real Buffalo Rises
How one American city lost, and then reclaimed its destiny.
California Split
The post-election “Calexit” movement owes as much to petulance as to principle.
Populism Needs Place-ism
When unmoored, populism begets a twister of nationalistic nothingness
Business Class
In praise of the middle-class man of commerce and letters.
The Meaning of ‘America First’
Trump draws on a century-old slogan, albeit imperfectly.
Party Like It’s 1896
Today’s GOP defectors don’t measure up to the principled third-party candidates of yore.
By the Time I Got to Phoenix
The persuasive power of hospitality, family, and ice cream
Why They Love Trump
Like William Randolph Hearst before him, the celebrity’s anti-elitist bluster speaks to genuine resentment.
Bob Dylan, Christian Anarchist
If there’s anything the U.S. needs right now, it’s some old-fashioned rulebreakers.
Bernie Sanders—Yes or No?
Vermonters weigh in on the radical old man of the 2016 race.
Essays Against the Man
A Muckdog reporter looks back on 30 years of journalism
What Drove Booth Tarkington?
How a 20th-century gentleman from Indiana fought giantism
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