Author Archives: Bill Kauffman
Remembering a Local Cultural Czarina
Wanda Frank made small-town Batavia a little brighter.
Hubert Humphrey: Neocon Before the Neocons
His career encapsulated the warfare-welfare state consensus.
This Football Season, Let’s Nix the National Anthem
And try something of a more local flavor instead.
Remembering One of America’s Last Community-Owned Sports Teams
The Batavia Muckdogs were one of the last to resist the bigness trend.
Radio Free America
A whipster from the ’60s recalls how the ‘days of wine of roses’ didn’t last long for one ill-fated folkie.
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.
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