''The American'' was an

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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

''The American'' was founded in November 2006 by

James K. Glassman James Kenneth Glassman (born January 1, 1947) served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2008-2009. He was, from 2009 to 2013, the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy ...

, the former president of ''

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'' and former publisher of ''

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'', as an AEI project. It replaced the previous public-affairs magazine published by AEI, ''

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''. 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 undersecretary of state for public diplomacy in the

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; 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. (Glassman and Schulz had previously collaborated on

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.) Schulz is also the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at AEI. In November 2008, AEI ended the print version of the glossy magazine due to its "'hemorrhaging' cash."

Content

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 policy.Archives
at American.com, accessed January 19, 2009. Current online content includes articles similar to those in the print version, traditional op-eds, "DataPoints" on public opinion (compiled by

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), and, since May 2009, th
Enterprise Blog
which features contributions from AEI scholars and staff members.

Editorial stance

"Our perspective," Glassman said at the magazine's launch, "is not partisan, but it is rooted in

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." Glassman said in 2006 that he believed "the three major business magazines"—that is, ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''—"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

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remarked in ''

'' (which Glassman had published from 1981 to 1984) that ''The American'', in replacing ''

'', "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

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. In is the conservatism of

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Jonathan Chait, ''

'', May 31, 2007.

Contributors

Among the noteworthy contributors to ''The American'' have been: * Michael Barone *

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

Tom Bethell Tom Bethell (; July 17, 1936 – February 12, 2021) was an American journalist who wrote mainly on economic and scientific issues. Life and career Bethell was born and raised in London, England. He was educated at Downside School and Trini ...

Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and academic. Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of twelve books, including ''Love Your Enemies'' (2019), The ''Co ...

Daniel Drezner Daniel W. Drezner (born August 23, 1968) is an American political scientist. He is professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is known for his scholarship and commentary on International ...

John Fund John H. Fund (born April 8, 1957) is an American political journalist. He is currently the national-affairs reporter for National Review Online and a senior editor at ''The American Spectator''. Life and career Fund was born in Tucson, Arizona. ...

Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for ''The New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ...

Michael Ledeen Michael Arthur Ledeen (; born August 1, 1941) is an American historian, and neoconservative foreign policy analyst. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United St ...

* Stephen Moore *

Kevin M. Murphy Kevin Miles Murphy (born 1958) is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 1997 Murphy was awarded the prestigi ...

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Norman J. Ornstein Norman Jay Ornstein (; born October 14, 1948) is an American political scientist and an Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C. conservative think tank. He is the co-author (along with Thomas E. Mann) of ' ...

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Notable stories

Luke Mullins's interview of a

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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 ''

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''.

Notes

External links

The Enterprise Blog

The American Enterprise Institute website
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