ABOUT THIS MONTH: Shall We Dance?
Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
UR ANNUAL ROBERT L. BARTLEY Memorial Dinner this year celebrated The American Spectator’s 40th anniversary. It was like prom night: a dizzying, delightful black tie evening amid friends old...
...from Alex Donner & His Orchestra...
...Now thanks to the generosity of our anniversary dinner chairman, T. Boone Pickens, we remain positioned to cultivate fresh talent, secure in the knowledge that we’ve merely turned 40 years young...
...20), conservatism is incomparably stronger institutionally and politically than it was during our magazine’s infancy...
...and even a warm tribute from the President of the United States...
...engaging, brilliant speakers led by T. Boone Pickens, Tom Wolfe, and Charles Krauthammer...
...The Clintons are history...
...UR ANNUAL ROBERT L. BARTLEY Memorial Dinner this year celebrated The American Spectator’s 40th anniversary...
...Presumably, she would allow her husband to move in with her, despite all the business he left unfinished in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...Editorial intern Richard Starr was also on hand that summer and afterward (his first contacts with AmSpec are nicely recounted in the essay he contributed to the recent collection Why I Turned Right...
...Today he is a mainstay of the Weekly Standard...
...We’re joined in this issue by some of our favorite long-time contributors and friends, who touch on their own first contacts with the magazine not to mention its place in world history (p...
...We’re still kicking, but the Soviet Empire is not, as Paul Johnson observes in his confident and wise historical survey of the last four decades (p...
...We can’t quite take full credit for that, but I like to think that a great deal of our movement’s fearlessness and restless energy is embodied in our own Bob Tyrrell...
...Move on,” we were told...
...And if the Clintons’ DNC clown Terry McAuliffe didn’t know about it earlier this year, he most definitely will now (p...
...Yes, 40 years is a serious milestone, not only in our collective life but in our individual lives...
...I’m fairly certain Roger Kaplan would agree (p...
...It was like prom night: a dizzying, delightful black tie evening amid friends old and new...
...And as our publisher Al Regnery no less confidently reports (p...
...Tom Wolfe in his dinner remarks mentioned writers like Bill McGurn, Malcolm Gladwell, Andrew Ferguson, and Christopher Caldwell who’ve gone through our shop (and with whom, among many others very dear to me, I had the privilege of working over the years...
...In his Bartley dinner remarks, Bob raised a most delicate subject when he reminded revelers that not so long ago we, the perpetrators of the Troopergate exposé, were advised never to mention the Clintons again...
...We’re grateful to Philip Klein, who’s too young to know better, for removing our blinders so that we can see just how close the woman Bob has dubbed Bruno is to moving back to the White House (p...
...It was quite a month, the only one in which I’d work with my predecessor Erich Eichman and star summer intern John Podhoretz, before Erich’s move to New York (and eventually to the Wall Street Journal) and John’s return to college (and eventually to Commentary,where he’s just been named its next editor...
...I wish I could say Iwas present at the creation, but it wasn’t until 13 years later—August 1980, to be precise —that I jumped on board...
...live music and dance (in Washington, D.C., on a week night...
...96, in a Current Wisdom section like none before...
...Try as we did to do the right thing, history would notcooperate...
...Our magazine was founded by the young, it has always reflected a youthful exuberance, and many a young talent has found his (and her) journalistic feet in its pages...
...In fact, we’ve had tremendous fun these past 40 years, most of it safely predating the forgotten Clinton era...
...Mind you, we knowwhere the time’s gone and for that we couldn’t be happier,blessed as we are to be living and publishing in the last great hope for mankind...
...by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski A B O U T T H I S M O N T H 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Shall We Dance...
...Ain’t we got fun...
Vol. 40 • January 2008 • No. 10
