Conservative American magazine
The American Spectator conservative American magazine covering news and politics, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. and published by the non-profit American Spectator Foundation. It was founded in 1967 by Tyrrell, who remains its editor-in-chief, with Wladyslaw Pleszczynski its editorial director since 1980.
From 1967 until the late 1980s, the magazine featured the writings of authors such as Thomas Sowell ,[1] Tom Wolfe , P. J. O'Rourke ,[2] George F. Will , Malcolm Gladwell , Patrick J. Buchanan , Tom Bethell , Terry Eastland, Andrew Ferguson , Christopher Caldwell , Fred Barnes , Roger Scruton , Walter Williams, Raymond Aron, Luigi Barzini, Paul Johnson , Irving Kristol , Jean-Francois Revel, and Malcolm Muggeridge . Bill Kristol and Bill McGurn began their careers at The American Spectator , as did Greg Gutfeld and John Podhoretz , who started at the magazine as interns. Some of the earliest published articles by Dinesh D'Souza , Laura Ingraham , and David Frum appeared at The American Spectator . Among the magazine's longest-serving columnists are Thomas Sowell , economist and celebrity Ben Stein ,[3] [4] Paul Kengor , Robert Stacy McCain , Scott McKay , George Neumayr, and George Parry . Ali Alexander and Jeffrey Lord have also contributed.[5] [6]
During the 1990s, the magazine grew in visibility and impact, primarily for its reports on Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and its "Arkansas Project ", funded by businessman Richard Mellon Scaife and the Bradley Foundation .[7]
^ "Thomas Sowell" . The American Spectator . Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .^ "Spectator.org" . Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .^ "Ben Stein" . The American Spectator . Archived from the original on February 6, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .^ "David Catron" . The American Spectator . Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .^ Alexander, Ali. "Forecast: GOP Victory But No Red Wave - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics" . The American Spectator | USA News and Politics . ^ "Jeffrey Lord" . The American Spectator . Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .^ Lewis, Neil A. (April 15, 1998). "Almost $2 Million Spent in Magazine's Anti-Clinton Project, but on What?" . The New York Times Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
