Alternative press (U.S. political right)
Encyclopedia
Under the broad heading of the alternative press are several subcategories including periodicals published by groups, movements, or individuals affiliated with the U.S. political right. As the word press implies, these are printed publications, as opposed to electronic forms of alternative media
. This list also excludes widely circulated daily newspapers primarily consumed for non-political coverage, such as The Washington Times
, the Wall Street Journal, or the New Hampshire Union Leader
.
As with the Left, the American Right encompasses an enormous spectrum of sometimes conflicting ideological schools, core issues, and orientation toward populist versus academic sensibilities. Libertarians
, notably, reject the traditional left-right spectrum altogether, although it has been customary to link them to the U.S. right due to their parallel acceptance of liberal economics and anticommunism.
As such, the inclusion of any particular publication on this list may be controversial in certain quarters. The editorial page of the mainstream Wall Street Journal and the contents of the print edition of William F. Buckley, Jr.
's National Review
are often used as proxies for the views of the conventional, national political right, though they are rejected by various regional or intellectual spheres.
Alternative media
Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
. This list also excludes widely circulated daily newspapers primarily consumed for non-political coverage, such as The Washington Times
The Washington Times
The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the...
, the Wall Street Journal, or the New Hampshire Union Leader
New Hampshire Union Leader
The New Hampshire Union Leader is the daily newspaper of Manchester, the largest city in the state of New Hampshire. As of September 2010 it had a daily circulation of 48,342 and the circulation of its Sunday paper, the New Hampshire Sunday News, was 63,991. It was founded in 1863.It was called...
.
As with the Left, the American Right encompasses an enormous spectrum of sometimes conflicting ideological schools, core issues, and orientation toward populist versus academic sensibilities. Libertarians
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
, notably, reject the traditional left-right spectrum altogether, although it has been customary to link them to the U.S. right due to their parallel acceptance of liberal economics and anticommunism.
As such, the inclusion of any particular publication on this list may be controversial in certain quarters. The editorial page of the mainstream Wall Street Journal and the contents of the print edition of William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...
's National Review
National Review
National Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
are often used as proxies for the views of the conventional, national political right, though they are rejected by various regional or intellectual spheres.
Newspapers
- American Free PressAmerican Free PressThe American Free Press is a weekly newspaper published in the United States.According to one former correspondent, the newspaper's direct ancestor was the publication The Spotlight, which ceased publication in 2001 when its parent company, Liberty Lobby, was forced into bankruptcy...
(Started by former Spotlight staff) - Human EventsHuman EventsHuman Events is a weekly American conservative magazine. It takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence...
- The Idaho ObserverThe Idaho ObserverThe Idaho Observer was a monthly hardcopy 24-page constitutionally oriented newspaper, founded in January 1997 originating in North Idaho, United States, but with a scope that covered all of America, delivered nationwide...
- The WandererThe Wanderer (newspaper)The Wanderer is a lay Roman Catholic weekly newspaper published in St. Paul, Minnesota and distributed to a national market. It was founded by Joseph Matt on 7 October 1867...
- The SpotlightThe SpotlightThe Spotlight was a weekly newspaper in the United States, published in Washington, D.C. from September 1975 to July 2001 by the now-defunct Liberty Lobby...
(defunct)
Magazines and journals
- The American ConservativeThe American ConservativeThe American Conservative is a monthly U.S. opinion magazine published by Ron Unz. Its first editor was Scott McConnell, his successors being Kara Hopkins and the present incumbent, Daniel McCarthy....
- The AmericanThe American (magazine)The American is an online magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. The magazine's primary focus is the intersection of economics and politics...
- The American InterestThe American InterestThe American Interest is a non-partisan bimonthly magazine focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and matters related to the military...
- American OutlookAmerican OutlookAmerican Outlook is an American quarterly public policy magazine that discusses the pressing issues of current events. Published by Sagamore Institute of Indianapolis, Indiana, American Outlook is available in hard copy and online.Staff...
(defunct) - American RenaissanceAmerican Renaissance (magazine)-Cancellation of 2010, 2011 conferences:In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several hotels, which Jared Taylor claimed included some death threats, American Renaissance's biennial conference was canceled...
- The American SpectatorThe American SpectatorThe American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine covering news and politics, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. and published by the non-profit American Spectator Foundation. From its founding in 1967 until the late 1980s, the small-circulation magazine featured the writings of authors...
- Chronicles
- Claremont Review of BooksClaremont Review of BooksThe Claremont Review of Books is a quarterly review of politics and statesmanship published by the Claremont Institute. Many consider it a conservative intellectual answer to the liberal New York Review of Books...
- CommentaryCommentary (magazine)Commentary is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, a liberal at the time who moved sharply to the right in the 1970s and 1980s becoming a strong voice for the...
- Conservative Digest
- Crisis Magazine (defunct)
- First ThingsFirst ThingsFirst Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...
- Insight on the NewsInsight (magazine)Insight on the News was an American conservative print and online news magazine. It was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate then owned by the Unification Church, which owned The Washington Times and now owns United Press International and newspapers in Japan,...
(defunct) - Intercollegiate Review
- The National InterestThe National InterestThe National Interest is a prominent conservative American bi-monthly international affairs magazine published by the Center for the National Interest. It was founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and until 2001 was edited by Anglo-Australian Owen Harries...
- The New American
- New AtlantisNew Atlantis magazineThe New Atlantis, founded in 2003, is a journal about the social and political dimensions of science and technology. Published by the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., the journal is a quarterly, and consists of serious essays on a variety of science and technology...
- The New CriterionThe New CriterionThe New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books...
- Orbis
- Policy ReviewPolicy ReviewPolicy Review is one of America's leading conservative journals. It was founded by the Heritage Foundation and was for many years the foundation's flagship publication. In 2001, the publication was acquired by the Stanford University-based Hoover Institution, though it maintains its office on...
- The Public InterestThe Public InterestThe Public Interest was a quarterly public policy journal founded by established New York intellectuals Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol in 1965. It was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers...
(defunct) - World MagazineWorld (magazine)WORLD Magazine is a biweekly Christian news magazine, published in the United States of America by God's World Publications, a non-profit 501 organization based in Asheville, North Carolina. WORLD differs from most other news magazines in that its declared perspective is one of conservative...
- The World & I
- The Weekly StandardThe Weekly StandardThe Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...
Newsletters
- American Sentinel Briefly published as Pink Sheet on the Left. Publisher: Phillips International (Thomas L. Phillips).
- ImprimisImprimisImprimis is the monthly speech digest of Hillsdale College, described by Salon.com as "the most influential conservative publication you've never heard of" and by Rush Limbaugh as "one of the best and most important publications that I read."-History:Imprimis was founded in 1972 by Clark Durant...
- The Limbaugh LetterRush LimbaughRush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United...
- Phyllis SchlaflyPhyllis SchlaflyPhyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly is a Constitutional lawyer and an American politically conservative activist and author who founded the Eagle Forum. She is known for her opposition to modern feminism ideas and for her campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment...
Report - Young America's Foundation's LibertasYoung America's FoundationYoung America's Foundation is a conservative youth organization, founded in 1969, with a focus on sharing conservative ideas with students through conferences, campus lectures, seminars, posters, and activism initiatives.-History:...
Student publications
- Collegiate NetworkCollegiate NetworkThe Collegiate Network is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501 organization that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of almost 100 independent, conservative and libertarian publications at leading colleges and universities around the country. The project...
(CN), a network of nearly 100 student papers, including:- California PatriotCalifornia PatriotThe California Patriot is an independent, student-run, glossy-covered magazine from the University of California, Berkeley.-Overview:The magazine's mission is to promote conservative politics and opinion at the University. The magazine prints eight issues a year, and is distributed on the Berkeley...
- Cornell Review
- Dartmouth Review
- Harvard SalientHarvard Salient-Overview:The Harvard Salient was founded in 1981, and is one of the oldest in a movement of conservative newspapers established in the Ivy League during the beginnings of the Reagan administration.It publishes biweekly...
- Irvine Review
- Michigan Review
- Princeton ToryPrinceton ToryThe Princeton Tory is a magazine of conservative and moderate political thought written and published by Princeton University students.In the fall semester of 2009, the Tory came out with a new website on which it publishes all of its print articles. In addition, the Tory opened a new blog....
- Wabash Commentary
- California Patriot
See also
- Alternative media (U.S. political right)Alternative media (U.S. political right)Alternative media in the United States usually refers to internet, talk radio, print, and television journalism and opinions which present a point of view that counters the alleged bias of mainstream media...
- Alternative press (U.S. political left)Alternative press (U.S. political left)Under the broad heading of the alternative press are several subcategories including periodicals published by groups, movements, or individuals affiliated with the U.S. political left...
- Underground pressUnderground pressThe underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....
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