{"id":36774,"date":"2021-01-24T21:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36774"},"modified":"2021-01-24T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:51:37","slug":"jeff-riggenbach-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/24\/jeff-riggenbach-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Riggenbach, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jeff-Riggenbach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jeff-Riggenbach-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jeff-Riggenbach.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My dear old friend Jeff Riggenbach died today.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff was a brilliant writer who penned two pieces on Randolph Bourne, the namesake of Antiwar.com&#8217;s parent foundation, The Randolph Bourne Institute.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/riggenbach\/2011\/05\/29\/the-brilliance-of-randolph-bourne\/\">The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randolphbourne.org\/rb-bio.html\">Randolph Bourne Biography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a teenager, I was a news junkie. (That never changed.) I listened regularly to KFWB News radio in Los Angeles. One of their anchormen, Jeff Riggenbach, had a distinctive baritone voice. When I was 19, I was doing a bit of selling marijuana. A friend came to tell me of someone who wanted to buy a pound. I told him to bring his friend by. When the friend arrived and started talking, I said &#8220;You&#8217;re Jeff Riggenbach!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m aware of that,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I met Jeff over and over at events and homes of friends. In 1978 we were working in the same offices, Jeff at <i>Libertarian Review<\/i> and me at Students for a Libertarian Society. We became fast friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\">The Mises Institute<\/a> says this about Jeff: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jeff Riggenbach is a journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator. A member of the Organization of American Historians and a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, he has written for such newspapers as the <i>New York Times<\/i>, <i>USA Today<\/i>, the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, and the <i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i>; such magazines as <i>Reason<\/i>, <i>Inquiry<\/i>, and <i>Liberty<\/i>; and such websites as LewRockwell.com, AntiWar.com, and RationalReview.com. His books include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Praise-Decadence-Jeff-Riggenbach\/dp\/1573922463\/\"><i>In Praise of Decadence<\/i><\/a> (1998), <a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/Why-American-History-What-They\/dp\/193355049X\/\"><i>Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism<\/i><\/a> (2009), and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Persuaded-Reason-Individualism-Riggenbach-2014-09-18\/dp\/B01K3RB8FA\">Persuaded by Reason: Joan Kennedy Taylor &amp; the Rebirth of American Individualism<\/a><\/i> (2014). Drawing on vocal skills he honed in classical and all-news radio in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston, Riggenbach has also narrated the audiobook versions of numerous libertarian works, many of them available on Mises.org.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeff was a brilliant and creative man. He died at 74 after a long illness. He made the world better and his passage is a great loss. I will miss him very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear old friend Jeff Riggenbach died today. Jeff was a brilliant writer who penned two pieces on Randolph Bourne, the namesake of Antiwar.com&#8217;s parent foundation, The Randolph Bourne Institute. The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne Randolph Bourne Biography As a teenager, I was a news junkie. (That never changed.) 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