In a field crowded with competitors, AEI's acclaimed magazine of politics, business, and culture, The American Enterprise, continues to grow in circulation and influence. As 2002 closes, The American Enterprise is preparing to launch a new media program to further raise its public profile through a regular series of interview and article placements on radio and television shows. The deployment of a revamped website early in 2003 will also enhance the magazine's visibility. As it is, www.TAEmag.com received nearly 8 million hits in 2002.

The core of each issue of the magazine is a series of articles on a single theme. Different issues in 2002 addressed the good, the bad, and the ugly in modern art; historical debates that remain relevant in contemporary America; the state of the union as refracted through the prism of the most recent U.S. census; the absence of real diversity of opinion on most of our nation's campuses; modern investment practices; and strong, quirky, and independent individuals who deserve to be called "American originals."

Two issues had a particularly timely focus. One of them, a collection of stories on New York City's recovery from September 11, appeared as the Ground Zero cleanup was completed. The other, an examination of the increasing gap between European and American interests, was published just as the tensions flared between the United States and its European allies over Iraq.

Editor in Chief Karl Zinsmeister and his staff enlist prominent writers and political figures to write for the magazine alongside AEI scholars. Recent contributors include syndicated columnist and analyst Linda Chavez on her transformation from political liberal to conservative, author Dinesh D'Souza on immigration and economic advancement, British journalist Andrew Sullivan on European resistance to American leadership, and former presidential candidate and conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan on defending American culture.

From the pages of The American Enterprise

Every issue of The American Enterprise contains an interview with a leading figure in American life or an occasional foreign eminence. In the past year, those interviewed were founding father of American conservatism William F. Buckley, architect and urban planner Andres Duany, CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg, British journalist Peter Hitchens, former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Boston University chancellor John Silber, and political pollster John Zogby.

Each issue also includes a digest of important, recently published policy studies from universities and research institutes; first-person reports of the working world and everyday life; book reviews; and timely public-opinion data. In 2002, the magazine added a column of political commentary by conservative activist Grover Norquist.

"You can love or loathe Wall Street and the whole machinery of investment capitalism. Both passions have deep American roots. But the reality is, every person living in the U.S. is heavily indebted to the traders, bankers, and brokers who fund our business start-ups, fill our retirement accounts, finance our factories and buildings, and keep our economy balanced and humming."
--Karl Zinsmeister