[Atticus]

In a stroke of genius, my father gave me a subscription to The American Spectator (and National Review) when I left home for college in 1981. His subscription went back many years earlier, and I believe he still has some of the early issues of "The Alternative: An American Spectator" in his attic. The magazine deserves a lot of credit for spawning a host of conservative college newspapers, many of which called themselves the Spectator.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"In a stroke of genius, my father gave me a subscription to The American Spectator (and National Review) when I left home for college in 1981."

That's one smart cookie, your old man!

[Chemnitz]

Magazines do NOT last forever. I liked the old AS. I'm not sure about the new version. RET inspired a lot of campus conservatives. I always admired his take no prisoners approach to polemics.