GCC professor named editor of The American Spectator
Paul Kengor, Ph.D., Grove City College professor of political science, is the new editor of The American Spectator, one of America’s oldest and most influential conservative publications.
Kengor, who was already serving as a senior editor and regular contributor to The American Spectator, was tapped for the post by the magazine and online outlet’s founder and longtime editor-in-chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Tyrrell said Kengor knows the magazine well, both as a contributor and as a scholar working on an official history of The American Spectator, and has been a key developer of new contributors though the magazine’s Young Writers Program.
Kengor will continues his duties at Grove City College and the Institute for Faith & Freedom, where he serves as the conservative think tank’s senior director and chief academic fellow, in addition to his teaching duties.
Kengor said he aims to keep the magazine “funny, hilarious and politically incorrect. With fearless wit, great writers and great writing.”
Kengor is also a New York Times bestselling author, contributor to many media outlets ranging from USA Today and the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and a regular guest on conservative talk radio and television.
Kengor has written nearly 20 books, including “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism,” “Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century,” “A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century,” and “The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration.” His Reagan scholarship provides the inspiration for the upcoming film “Reagan,” starring Dennis Quaid and Jon Voight.
The American Spectator was founded in 1967 in Bloomington, Ind.
