The American Conservative

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The American Conservative

description Political magazine
Area of ​​Expertise politics
language English
publishing company The American Ideas Institute (USA)
First edition October 7, 2002
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Editor-in-chief W. James Antle III
Web link theamericanconservative.com
ISSN (print) 1540-966X

The American Conservative (TAC) is a US American bimonthly political magazine that has been published in Washington DC since October 2002 and is published by the non-profit organization American Ideas Institute . The magazine was founded by Pat Buchanan as an organ of the conservative opposition to the policies of the Bush administration and is considered an essential platform for paleoconservative views.

History and direction

The magazine was founded as a forum for critics of the interventionist foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration by former Republican presidential candidate and publicist Pat Buchanan , as the existing publications of the conservative spectrum such as the National Review or Weekly Standard uncritically supported the unrestrained war on terror . The American Conservative claims to represent

"A conservatism that opposes the uncontrolled exercise of power in government and business, that promotes families and communities, supports free people and free markets, and wants a realistic and restrained foreign policy based on the vital national interests of America."

In March 2008, a permanent columnist for the magazine, Andrew Bacevich, declared himself in favor of Barack Obama as the next president because he had been an opponent of the Iraq war from the start and, unlike John McCain , would change the foreign policy of the Bush administration.

The American Conservative has been sharing offices in Washington DC with the left-wing liberal magazine The American Prospect since early 2013 .

After an interview by the magazine with the author JD Vance , his book Hillbilly Elegy suddenly became a bestseller in the summer of 2016, topping the sales lists for several months.

In December 2019, the magazine's senior editor , Daniel Larison, published an article in which he spoke out in favor of the impeachment of President Donald Trump because the allegations of abuse of office had proven to be clearly true.

reception

The American Conservative is regarded as unorthodox and was judged to be the “leading organ of the emphatically non- neoconservatives ” , particularly with a view to its negative attitude towards US foreign policy . The left-liberal Huffington Post described the magazine as "the most unusual magazine of the political right", in which divergent views on the mainstream of the Republican Party were expressed.

Authors

Journalists Justin Raimondo , Philip Giraldi , Robert W. Merry (Editor-in-Chief 2016-2018), Taki Theodoracopulos and Peter Hitchens , the university professors Paul Gottfried , John J. Mearsheimer and Samuel P. Huntington , among others, were or are employees or authors of the magazine as well as politicians Josh Hawley , Jon Huntsman and Rand Paul .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About Us The American Conservative
  2. ↑ The Right Choice? Why Conservatives should consider Obama The American Conservative, March 24, 2008, accessed February 28, 2020
  3. ↑ The Case for Impeachment is overwhelming The American Conservative, December 19, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020
  4. ↑ Hans Martin Sieg: World power and world order: the war in Iraq, American security policy, Europe and Germany. Lit Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8166-0 , p. 173
  5. ↑ The American Conservative, The Right's Most Unorthodox Magazine, Seizes The Moment Huffington Post , March 12, 2013, accessed February 28, 2020