American conservative
The American Conservative cover March 2017
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| Editor | Robert W. Merry |
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| Categories | Editorial magazine |
| Frequency | Bi-monthly |
| Circulation | 8,000 |
| Publisher | Jon Basil Utley |
| Founder | Scott McConnell, Patrick Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos |
| First issue | October 7, 2002 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1540-966X |
The American Conservative (TAC) is a bi-monthly journal of opinion published by the American Ideas Institute. It was founded in 2002 to advocate for what it holds to be the original conservative values of peace, community, and fiscal restraint, rather than the ideology of "war, every man for himself, and endless deficits and debt" that it believes was the result of the modern conservative movement. It is opposed to the "left-wing ideologies that ran rampant in the 20th century and the right-wing, but not conservative, reaction that has only exacerbated the destruction wrought by the left."
In 2011 and 2012, the magazine expanded its website, adding several regular columnists. At present, some notable columnists include Rod Dreher, Daniel Larison, Noah Millman, Andrew Bacevich, Kelly Vlahos, and Philip Giraldi.
The American Conservative is non-partisan and "devoted to the conservative disposition, not the Republican Party." It advocates fiscal conservatism, traditionalism, civil liberties, communitarian positions on urban planning and the environment, and a realist foreign policy based on military restraint and the national interest. It is a heterogeneous publication, and incorporates a range of voices that align with its broad editorial stance.
In 2002 The American Conservative was founded by Scott McConnell, Patrick Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos in opposition to the Iraq War. Daniel Strauss wrote:
The idea of The American Conservative was that there were enough who disagreed with mainstream conservatism—libertarians, paleoconservatives, and civil libertarian conservatives, among other dissenters—to warrant such a publication. While other conservative magazines like National Review and The Weekly Standard marched more or less in lockstep with the Bush Administration, The American Conservative argued for a different course—sometimes with greater ferocity than the major political magazines on the left.
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