Why Aren't You Reading The American Conservative?
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It's a new magazine, founded in 2002, with a mission to reclaim conservatism from the neocons. The magazine has been at the forefront of an intellectual left-right antiwar coalition, running such diverse writers as Glenn Greenwald and Pat Buchanan. Besides, in what other magazine can you read Philip Weiss and John Derbyshire?
BTW, if your college has access to the "MasterFILE Premier" publication database, you can probably read it here for free, that's what I've been doing to get my fix of non-Sailerite articles: Link
Now that I'm back from a very eventful few days in Vegas with friends celebrating our 21-ness, I'd just say that the American Conservative is overwhelmingly a clearinghouse for Old Right racialist bullshit. Frum's takedown-from-the-right attack on their ilk in the National Review a few years back is worth a read: Link
Naturally, I don't agree with a lot of what's in that article regarding the merits of the Iraq war, but taken as a whole there's enough in there to entirely discredit the AmCon crowd.