New York Post - June 12, 2002
Right-wing pundit and sometimes presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and Euro-society journalist Taki Theodoracopulos are working on the launch of a new national fortnightly conservative magazine to rival The Weekly Standard and the National Review. The new magazine will be called The American Conservative and is expected to debut in mid-September from offices in Washington, D.C.
Buchanan, a former Republican, ran for president in 2000 as a Reform Party candidate.
"We're for control of American borders, preservation of American sovereignty and preservation of traditional values," said Buchanan. "We probably won't be getting too many ads from the Gay Pride Parade."
Scott McConnell, who once was the editorial page editor of the New York Post and has most recently been a senior policy advisor to the Buchanan campaign, will be the executive editor.
Speaking from London, Taki said, "I'll get the glory, and Pat and Scott will do the work."
Each will have a one-third stake in the venture, American Conservative LLC - but Taki, an heir to a Greek shipping fortune, is believed to be pumping in most of the funding. The circulation will be small, probably in the 12,000 range.
Buchanan will advise and do a signed editorial each issue. His last book, "The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization," was a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks and soon will be released in paperback.
Yesterday Buchanan told Media Ink that he is starting the new publication because "traditional conservatism has pretty much disappeared from Washington, D.C."