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21-657: Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other American Affairs is a quarterly American political journal founded in February 2017 by Julius Krein . Its project has been outlined 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
42-632: A conservative and a nationalist, but absolutely not a white nationalist. He also explained that he was very disillusioned with the Republican Party leadership, and that he felt Reaganomics had been a failure: "To go back to nationalism, the biggest problem is the Republican mindset, the Reaganite mindset that we are all just individuals and let everyone loose to acquire wealth. That hasn't worked. Not only do we have rising inequality, but
63-593: 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." Since its founding in 2017, American Affairs has become known for in-depth articles on trade and industrial policy , criticisms of financialization , advocacy of family childcare allowances and infrastructure spending , as well as for bringing together right and left-wing critics of neoliberalism . Aside from public policy, it has also covered political theory and cultural criticism . It has been characterized in
84-602: A quarterly journal intended to support Trump from an intellectual perspective. He described it as an effort "to give the Trump movement some intellectual heft." Six months later, however, Krein publicly withdrew his support for Trump in a piece published in The New York Times , expressing regret over his prior support of Trump as president. The inaugural issue of American Affairs was released February 21, one month after Trump's inauguration, which Krein intended to be
105-657: A shame, because 'The Age of Entitlement' raises important questions not just about the future of the republic but about Western society more generally." Caldwell has written about the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America from the perspective of the Wampanoag Indians . His wife, Zelda, is the daughter of journalist Robert Novak . His daughter, Lucy Caldwell, was the campaign manager for Joe Walsh 's presidential campaign challenging Donald Trump for
126-476: Is "instinctively pro-immigration" and conscious of the media tendency to "sensationalize stories against Muslims". In 2020, Caldwell published The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties , in which he argues that the civil rights movement has had significant unintended consequences: "Just half a decade into the civil rights revolution, America had something it had never had at the federal level, something
147-494: Is an American conservative political writer and editor best known for founding the journal American Affairs . Krein was raised in Eureka, South Dakota , the son of Gary and Nancy Krein. He has one sister. He graduated from Eureka High School in 2004. He is a 2008 graduate of Harvard College , where he studied political philosophy with Harvey Mansfield . Krein went into a career in finance, working for Bank of America and
168-582: Is the Journal of American Greatness , a short-lived 2016 political blog best known for publishing "The Flight 93 Election," a widely read essay about the 2016 presidential election by the pseudonymous author Publius Decius Mus, later revealed to be Michael Anton . American Affairs was initially considered by some as a "pro- Trump journal." On its launch, it was described by the New York Times as "dedicated to giving intellectual heft and coherence to
189-771: The Financial Times , and a former contributor of book reviews at Slate . He is a senior fellow at the conservative think tank Claremont Institute and contributing editor to the Claremont Review of Books . His writing also appears in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times , where he is a contributing opinion writer. Caldwell was born in Lynn , Massachusetts , and graduated from Harvard College in 1983, where he studied English literature. Caldwell's 2009 book Reflections on
210-667: The New Statesman as a "heterodox policy journal" featuring, for instance, conservative arguments in favor of a greater role for the state alongside left-wing arguments against identity politics and open borders . Notable articles include Krein's "The Real Class War" which "attracted attention from both left and right in November 2019 by upending the conversation over class in the Democratic primary," according to New Statesman . A predecessor to American Affairs
231-725: The Blackstone Group . During the 2016 U.S. presidential election , he was employed at a hedge fund based in Boston while also contributing as a writer and site administrator for a pro-Trump blog. The blog, known as the Journal for American Greatness , was created supposedly to support Trump on the basis that his beliefs were politically sound. The blog's owners eventually took it offline, claiming it had begun as an inside joke and they were not prepared for such large readership. Its popularity led to Krein deciding to leave his day job to launch an authentic publication, American Affairs ,
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#1732768342655252-532: The Charlottesville rally. Krein stated that he did not feel Trump was legitimately racist. He told Slate , "I didn’t think the racist stuff was real. I thought it was media provocation. And that the economic or other stuff—that’s what he really cared about, and we are not electing a Pope, we are electing a president. If he gets even a couple things done, it’s good for the country, and by the way good for everybody." Krein stated that he identifies himself as
273-541: The Revolution in Europe , which deals with increased Muslim immigration to Europe, received mixed reactions. The Economist newspaper called it "an important book as well as a provocative one: the best statement to date of the pessimist's position on Islamic immigration in Europe." Others were more blunt, accusing Caldwell of stoking what The Guardian referred to as a " culture of fear ". Caldwell insists that he
294-646: The amorphous ideology known, for lack of a better term, as Trumpism." But in August 2017, after the "Unite the Right" rally at Charlottesvile, Virginia , Krein wrote an opinion article in The New York Times publicly acknowledging his regret in voting for the candidate. 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
315-424: 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
336-652: The events of the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally , Krein wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "I Voted for Trump and I Sorely Regret It". Krein's public denunciation of Trump, in which he encouraged others to do the same, attracted significant media attention. In his op-ed, he lamented that he and his fellow Trump supporters were guilty of "deluding ourselves" during the 2016 election and that Trump's harshest critics had been proven right. In an interview with Slate , Krein further explained how he had rationalized his public support for Trump prior to
357-407: The first of four issues for 2017. In an interview before its release, Krein stated he planned to have several dozen contributors and for each issue to include about 10 essays. The first issue included features on "the failure of standard conservative ideology," nationalism, fusionism, and academic free market theory. The issue received mixed reviews. On August 17, 2017, following Trump's reaction to
378-527: The overwhelming majority of its citizens would never have approved: an explicit system of racial preference. Plainly the civil rights acts had wrought a change in the country's constitutional culture." Caldwell writes that the Civil Rights Act 1964 was "not just a major new element in the Constitution ," but "a rival constitution, with which the original one was frequently incompatible." It
399-409: The people who defend rising inequality say it will lead to more productivity and the pie is going to be bigger blah blah. That hasn't happened, and no one has been willing to look at the deeper problems behind that." Christopher Caldwell (journalist) Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is an American journalist and a former senior editor at neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard to
420-1376: The rejection of globalism and free-market dogma that propelled his victory." According to The Washington Post , the journal is read by Ohio Senator and 2024 Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance . Contributors to the magazine include: Michael Anton, Robert D. Atkinson , Mehrsa Baradaran , Thierry Baudet , Daniel A. Bell , Fred Block , Dan Breznitz , Christopher Caldwell , Oren Cass , Angelo M. Codevilla , Colin Crouch , Patrick J. Deneen , Ronald W. Dworkin , Fredrik Erixon , Nancy Fraser , Amber A'Lee Frost , Frank Furedi , Maurice Glasman , James K. Galbraith , David P. Goldman, Allen C. Guelzo , Ofir Haivry , Shadi Hamid , James Hankins , Yoram Hazony , Joseph Heath , Arthur Herman , John B. Judis , Eric Kaufmann , Joel Kotkin , Ryszard Legutko , Michael Lind , Edward Luttwak , Bruno Maçães , Noel Malcolm , Pierre Manent , Lawrence M. Mead , Bill Mitchell , Angela Nagle , David Oks , Eric A. Posner , R.R. Reno , Ganesh Sitaraman , Anne-Marie Slaughter , Matthew Stoller , Wolfgang Streeck , Cass Sunstein , Ruy Teixiera , Nick Timothy , Roberto M. Unger , Adrian Vermeule , Henry Williams , L. Randall Wray , and Slavoj Zizek . Julius Krein Julius Krein (born 1986)
441-572: Was reviewed in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and the Claremont Review of Books . Richard Aldous wrote in The Wall Street Journal , "It's curious that a book subtitled 'America Since the Sixties' doesn't actually have much history in it", going on to say: "The reader turns the page expectantly, waiting to see what Mr. Caldwell has to say about President Trump . We will never know, at least not from reading this book, because Mr. Caldwell ends in 2015. ... That's
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