Correspondence
It's Unanimous I think the new format is great. It's new and attractive but still familiar. Let's hope it becomes the old format to a growing stream of new discoverers of TAS. —Carolyn A. Martin,...
...Mike Shears Waterbury, Connecticut Your new format: I hate it—I hate it—I hate it...
...In fact, if it weren't for the socialistic wonders—which your ads endorse—of a library at a major public university, I wouldn't indulge at all in your occasional lapses of entertaining prose...
...When all else fails, I have been able to prove, even to the satisfaction of my liberal friends, that my favorite magazine is bigger than their favorite magazine...
...Bra-vo...
...The new, smaller "magazine" size is timid and so average, compared to newspaper size, which was so expansive, engulfing, foldable, and snazzy...
...Liberals, who would once draw back at the large TAS tabloid logo, now sneer and snicker...
...Menahem Lewin East Jewett, New York I really like the new format, particularly the conventional size...
...I think everyone will appreciate it...
...This is all so sad and so sordid...
...I hope you can keep the unvarnished paper...
...I will admit my bias in favor of the peculiar style and appearance of the original format...
...Jim Considine South Bend, Indiana . . . One further irritating comment—I am 37 and can spot a state trooper from 7,000 feet in my BMW—but I find the new type face too bloody small...
...It used to be so much fun—when I, pardon the expression, "lived" there—to ride Berkeley buses with TAS spread open before me, shoulder-high, pour epater les bourgeois of the degenerate village...
...Now what is a conservative to do...
...Michael J. Bonafield Associate Editor The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina Bring back the sumptuous Spectator—bawdy, fearless, a visual and tactile delight...
...And, when I left my copy in the seminar room, students would pick it up and, because of its distinctive appearance, actually read it...
...I have had many arguments with bone-headed liberals who spout the New Republic party line and who refuse to see the wisdom of conservative positions advanced by The American Spectator...
...It is now the size of the New Republic...
...Dennis Zickerman Martinez, California 10 The American Spectator March 1992...
...Terry Haller Wilmette, Illinois . . . . The, old format was clearly a trademark that will be missed...
...Where once I would take out a copy of your publication on an airplane or at a break in the office in the same spirit that once accompanied walking into a room wearing Marine Corps dress blues or riding up to an assembly of liberal churchmen on a motorcycle, I now slink off by myself or wait for the privacy of a motel...
...Tom Neubert, another KGB/ACLU conspiracy is resoundingly routed...
...I nominate the person responsible for the size change for inclusion in P. J. O'Rourke's next Enemies List...
...The new, smaller print and limp, cheesy paper is a nightmare...
...Ben Stein's Diary is the first thing I read...
...Roger N. Brooks Richmond, New Hampshire Re your new format: Absolutely superb...
...Mark R. Olson Clarksville, Tennessee (P.S...
...Bury the conformist wimp...
...I give you fair warning: I can buy the books of Tyrrell, Bethell, and O'Rourke to meet that need, and when I find another way to satisfy my regular craving for Ben Stein—if the format does not return to its former form—you guys are history...
...The new format does have a single redeeming feature: you can easily photocopy pages for friends who are too frightened to subscribe...
...New York, New York I have been a subscriber for some time, a position I took with no small pride...
...But thanks to the heroic effort of Mr...
...Thanks for a truly enjoyable magazine every month...
...However, I had a laugh when Tom Bethell referred to us Republicans as "Grand Old People" in the same issue that you reduced the size of the print...
...And now for the negative part: Couldn't you try to expand your horizons beyond the political...
...Carolyn A. Martin, M.D...
...Robert Pidgeon San Mateo, California I always thought that the tabloid size was somewhat irksome...
...As a repeat and unrepentant offender on P. J. O'Rourke's annual Enemies Lists, I would never pay money to read the reactionary trash in The American Spectator...
...Scott Sumner Ridgefield, Connecticut Editors' note: Beginning with this issue, we have increased the size of the offending print...
...E Cornwell Bloomington, Indiana I have four points to make: •I like the new format much better...
...Elizabeth K Massie Santa Monica, California Congratulations on the new format...
...My mailman, who I'm convinced is a KGB plant or perhaps from the ACLU, would at times cram it into the mail box, thus leaving it wrinkled or torn...
...Think of your graying subscribers...
...I would finish reading it in high humor—prepared for another long day immersed in the political correctness of academe...
...The new format not only emasculates the image of The American Spectator, but diminishes that pride as well...
...Allow me nevertheless one brief comment about your new layout: I hate it...
...Nothing like a little novelty to further the cause of erudition and criticism . . . —William C. Burris Professor of Political Science Guilford College Greensboro, North CarolinaI must protest the change in format of your magazine...
...Not to mention that this was an eminently sensible business decision and much too long in coming...
...May I however suggest that the type face selected should be larger...
Vol. 25 • March 1992 • No. 3
