Mickey Kaus is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on July 6, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Kaus has identified himself as neoliberal. He tends to support liberal ends, including social equality (the topic of his book The End of Equality) and universal health care, but frequently attacks traditional liberal means of reaching those ends. Most notably, he was an influential proponent of welfare reform in the 1980s, and is a fierce critic of both labor unions (particularly automotive workers’ unions and teachers’ unions) and low-skilled immigration (he supports the 2010 Arizona anti-illegal-immigration law, calling to wait to see the law’s practical effects before overturning it).
Kaus first wrote Slate’s “Chatterbox” column in 1997 but started Kausfiles in 1999 as a private blog. In 2002, he returned to Slate at the invitation of editor Michael Kinsley. During 2003, the daily readership of Kausfiles varied between 15,000 and 30,000.
Robert Michael “Mickey” Kaus (/ˈ k aʊ s / ; born July 6, 1951) is an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a “mostly political” blog which was featured on Slate until 2010. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, among other publications.
