American Affairs
American Affairs is a quarterly American political journal founded in February 2017 by Julius Krein. Krein is the journal's editor. Gladden Pappin, a University of Dallas political science professor, is the journal's assistant editor.[2]
| Editor | Julius Krein |
|---|---|
| Categories | Politics |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Circulation | 12,000[1] |
| Founder | Julius Krein |
| First issue | Spring 2017 |
| Company | American Affairs Foundation Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Boston |
| Language | English |
| Website | americanaffairsjournal |
| ISSN | 2475-8809 |
The editors describe the journal as blending the literature and philosophy of the Claremont Review of Books with the political interests of National Affairs.[2][3]
American Affairs was initially considered by some as a "pro-Trump journal [launched] in an effort to give the Trump movement some intellectual heft".[4] But in 2017, Krein wrote an opinion article in The New York Times publicly acknowledging his regret in voting for the candidate.[5] Jennifer Schuessler of The New York Times writes: "the magazine seeks to fill the void left by a conservative intellectual establishment more focused on opposing Mr. Trump than on grappling with the rejection of globalism and free-market dogma that propelled his victory."[6]
Its project has been described in Tablet as: "a dense, technically sophisticated form of neo-Hamiltonian economic nationalism, pushed in various forms by Michael Lind, David P. Goldman, and Krein himself," based on the contention that "a short-sighted American elite has allowed the country’s manufacturing core—the key to both widespread domestic prosperity and national security in the face of a mercantilist China—to be hollowed out," just as "Production and technical expertise have shifted to China and Asia, domestic capital has flowed into unproductive share buybacks or tech schemes (Uber, WeWork), and America has become a country with a two-tiered service economy, with bankers, consultants, and software engineers at the top and Walmart greeters and Uber drivers at the bottom."[7]
History
Predecessors to American Affairs include the Journal of American Greatness, a 2016 political blog, and American Greatness, the 2016 political blog best known for publishing "The Flight 93 Election," a widely read political essay about the 2016 presidential election by the pseudonymous author Publius Decius Mus, later revealed to be Michael Anton.[6][2][8]
References
- T.A. Frank (2018-01-25). "Why conservative magazines are more important than ever". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
- Johnson, Eliana (1 March 2017). "Meet the Harvard whiz kid who wants to explain Trumpism". Politico. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- "Welcoming two newcomers On a pair of publications that will ponder the political puzzles of our day". The New Criterion. March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- Johnson, Eliana; Dawsey, Josh (2017-07-23). "GOP despairs at inability to deliver". Politico. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
- Krein, Julius (August 8, 2017). "Opinion: I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It". The New York Times.
- Schuessler, Jennifer (8 March 2017). "Talking Trumpism: A New Political Journal Enters the Fray". The New York Times.
- "The Battle on the New Right for the Soul of Trump's America". Tablet Magazine. 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- Sanneh, Kelefa (25 February 2017). "A New Trumpist Magazine Débuts at the Harvard Club". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 March 2017.