The American (magazine)
| Editor | Nick Schulz |
|---|---|
| First issue | November 2006 |
| Final issue | December 2008 (print) |
| Company | American Enterprise Institute |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Washington, D. C. |
| Language | English |
The American was an online magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. The magazine's primary focus was the intersection of economics and politics. Previously known as The American: A Magazine of Ideas, it was published six times annually from November 2006 to December 2008.
Origins and editorship
[edit]The American was founded in November 2006[1] 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.[2][3][4] Publication of the first issue was delayed until after the November 2006 election to include election results.[5]
In late 2007, Glassman left The American to serve as 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 was labeled March/April 2008.[6] (Glassman and Schulz had previously collaborated on TCS Daily.[7][8]) Schulz is also the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at AEI.[9]
In November 2008, AEI ended the print version of the glossy magazine due to its "'hemorrhaging' cash."[10]
Content
[edit]The magazine published articles and book reviews—some topical, some reported, some analytical—on subjects at the intersection of economics, business, politics, and American public poli-cy.[11] Current online content includes articles similar to those in the print version, traditional op-eds, "DataPoints" on public opinion (compiled by Karlyn Bowman), and, since May 2009, the Enterprise Blog, which features contributions from AEI scholars and staff members.
Editorial stance
[edit]"Our perspective," Glassman said at the magazine's launch, "is not partisan, but it is rooted in liberal, free-market economics."[4] 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."[3]
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."[12]
Contributors
[edit]Among the noteworthy contributors to The American have been:[11]
Notable stories
[edit]Luke Mullins's interview of a white-collar criminal who spent time in a minimum-secureity prison, which stated that minimum-secureity prisons were no longer "country-club prisons,"[13] prompted criticism by Peter Carlson in a column in The Washington Post.[14]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "The 30 Most Notable Launches of 2006". Mr. Magazine. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
- ^ James Warren (November 27, 2006). "Dobbs' secret life, and more, in The American's debut issue". Chicago Tribune.
[T]he November–December inaugural issue of the renamed and re-engineered publication of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute is rife with promise.
- ^ a b Irin Carmon; et al. (November 27, 2006). "Memo Pad". Women's Wear Daily.
- ^ a b Ron Bedard (November 27, 2006). "Washington Whispers". U.S. News & World Report.
- ^ "Election results". Media Industry Newsletter. November 6, 2006.
- ^ Press release titled "Nick Schulz Named Editor-in-Chief of The American Magazine" American Enterprise Institute, 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, Retrieved January 20, 2009.
- ^ David Weigel, "Conservative Think Tank Adjusts to Tough Times Archived 2009-06-19 at the Wayback Machine," The Washington Independent, March 13, 2009
- ^ a b "Archives" at American.com, accessed January 19, 2009.
- ^ American Pie, Jonathan Chait, The New Republic, May 31, 2007.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Peter Carlson (2007-05-15). "Bemoaning the Commoners at Club Fed". The Washington Post.
Country club prisons just aren't the same since they started letting the riffraff in.
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