The American Spectator

The American Spectator
description	newsmagazine
language	English
publishing company	American Spectator Foundation ( USA )
First edition	1967
Frequency of publication	per month
Editor-in-chief	Emmett Tyrrell
editor	Wladyslaw Pleszczynski
Web link	[1]
ISSN	0148-8414

The American Spectator is an American conservative and libertarian monthly magazine .

Founded The American Spectator entitled The Alternative, An American Spectator in 1967 by the later publisher and editor-conductive Tyrrell and other students of Indiana University in Bloomington. Until the late 1980s, authors such as Thomas Sowell , Tom Wolfe , PJ O'Rourke , George F. Will , Malcolm Gladwell , Pat Buchanan, and Malcolm Muggeridge were distributed in small editions.

Tyrrell had initially planned a conservative alternative to the student radicalism of the 1960s, which was based on the British conservative-intellectual The Spectator . oriented. During the Ronald Reagan presidency, the magazine moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Washington, DC

The magazine became known nationwide in the 1990s with critical reports on Bill Clinton , most of which were researched and written by David Brock . Brock later distanced himself from it. The corresponding scandal reporting was financially supported by the so-called Arkansas Project . The very wealthy businessman Richard Mellon Scaife and his Bradley Foundation had set up the same thing to gather material for an impeachment trial for President Clinton. In the environment of the dot-com bubble 2000–2003, the magazine belonged to George Gilder , who put the focus more on technology and then came back to the old owners. The circulation is around 50,000 copies annually.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. 2002, Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4000-4728-4
2. ↑ Neil A. Lewis. Almost $ 2 Million Spent in Magazine's Anti-Clinton Project, but on What? , The New York Times , April 15, 1998