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Revision as of 16:24, 21 March 2009 by Dicklyon (talk | contribs) (case)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Not to be confused with American Magazine.The American: A Magazine of Ideas is a magazine published six times per year by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. The magazine's primary focus is the intersection of American business and politics.
Origins and editorship
The American was founded in November 2006 by James K. Glassman, the former president of The Atlantic Monthly and former publisher of The New Republic, as an AEI project. It replaced the previous public-affairs magazine published by AEI, The American Enterprise. Publication of the first issue was delayed until after the November 2006 election to include election results.
In late 2007, Glassman left The American to serve as the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy in the George W. Bush administration; he was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Nick Schulz, who had served as a senior editor of the young magazine since its founding; the first issue edited by Schulz appeared in April 2008. (Glassman and Schulz had previously collaborated on TCS Daily.) Schulz is also the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at AEI.
Content
The magazine publishes articles and book reviews—some topical, some reportorial, some analytical—on subjects at the intersection of economics, business, politics, and American public policy.
The magazine publishes additional online-only content, including short articles; a blog called "Americana"; and a series of podcast interviews called "American Conversation," whose subjects have included Tyler Cowen and Bill Plante.
Editorial stance
"Our perspective," Glassman said at the magazine's launch, "is not partisan, but it is rooted in liberal, free-market economics." Glassman said in 2006 that he believed "the three major business magazines"—that is, Forbes, Fortune, and BusinessWeek—"have, in an attempt to get a broader audience, gone downscale," creating a "big opening" for an intellectual magazine about business that is "absolutely not partisan or ideological—mainly a reported magazine rather than a magazine of opinion."
Liberal writer Jonathan Chait remarked in The New Republic (which Glassman had published from 1981 to 1984) that The American, in replacing The American Enterprise, "seems less dewy-eyed about the virtues of democracy and far more dewy-eyed about the virtues of the bottom line. Out is the conservatism of Paul Wolfowitz. In is the conservatism of Montgomery Burns."
Contributors and staffers
Among the noteworthy contributors to The American have been :
- Michael Barone
- Gary Becker
- Tom Bethell
- Arthur C. Brooks
- Daniel Drezner
- John Fund
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Michael Ledeen
- Stephen Moore
- Kevin M. Murphy
- Charles Murray
- Norman J. Ornstein
- Henry Petroski
- Amity Shlaes
Hanson, Shlaes, and Bethell are affiliated with the magazine as contributing editors, as are Elise Passamani and AEI senior fellow and polling expert Karlyn Bowman. Several of the magazine's contributors are also affiliated with AEI, including Brooks, who became AEI's president in January 2009—therefore technically becoming The American's publisher.
The American's managing editor is Duncan Currie, a former writer for the Weekly Standard. Its publishing director is Sam Schulman, formerly publisher of Wigwag. Alexander Isley, the former art director for Spy, helped design the glossy magazine.
Notable stories
Luke Mullins's interview of a white-collar criminal who spent time in a minimum-security prison, which stated that minimum-security prisons were no longer "country-club prisons," prompted criticism by Peter Carlson in a column in the Washington Post.
Notes
- James Warren (2006-11-27). "Dobbs' secret life, and more, in The American's debut issue". Chicago Tribune.
he November-December inaugural issue of the renamed and re-engineered publication of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute is rife with promise.
- ^ Irin Carmon; et al. (2006-11-27). "Memo Pad". Women's Wear Daily.
{{cite news}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|author=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Ron Bedard (2006-11-27). "Washington Whispers". US News & World Report.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - "November 6, 2006". Media Industry Newsletter. 2006-11-06.
- Press release titled "Nick Schulz Named Editor-in-Chief of The American Magazine" from the American Enterprise Institute, dated April 28, 2008.
- Brendan Conway, "What's Your Story?," Doublethink magazine, Winter 2007.
- Nick Schulz, "Something Old, Something New," TCS Daily, September 19, 2006.
- Bio page for Nick Schulz on the AEI Web site, accessed January 20, 2009.
- ^ "Archives" at American.com, accessed January 19, 2009.
- "Online Extras" at American.com, accessed January 19, 2009.
- American Pie, Jonathan Chait, The New Republic, May 31, 2007.
- Bio page for "Duncan Currie" at American.com, accessed January 19, 2008.
- Myrna Blyth (2006-12-13). "Money Magazines Get Smart". New York Sun. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Luke Mullins (May/June 2007). "Enter a 'Hellish Place'". The American. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
The Bureau of Prisons is incredibly sensitive to accusations that they are coddling white-collar offenders," Novak said. "They are very sensitive to the 'Club Fed' mythology.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Peter Carlson (2007-05-15). "Bemoaning the Commoners at Club Fed". Washington Post.
Country club prisons just aren't the same since they started letting the riffraff in.
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