About The American Scene
The American Scene is hosted at Joyent and managed in Textpattern. The site was originally designed by Paul Adam Smith and Melissa Dean, and is currently managed by Matt Frost.
Noah Millman
Noah Millman used to call himself a “financial engineer” until Warren Buffett accused him of building financial weapons of mass destruction. Now he lives by a simple motto: sub-prime mortgages won’t destroy the world economy; portfolios of sub-prime mortgages will destroy the world economy. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son, neither of whom have any idea what he does for a living and neither of whom appear to have read this blog. His best work to date can be found here. He used to have his own blog, but he’s much better now. Readers with comments too personal, too profane, or too potentially profitable to make public can email him at gideon dot blogger at gmail dot com. He is honored to be a part of the jazz odyssey that is The American Scene Mark II.
Reihan Salam
Reihan Salam, an associate editor at The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation, has worked for the New Republic, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Times, and NBC News. His interests include, in no particular order, the history of ideas, urban and regional planning, 5GW, technology and society, social policy, demography, normative political theory, youth culture, bad movies, bad fiction, and good music. You can reach him via hisfirstname at gmail dot com.
Peter Suderman
Peter Suderman has no real useful knowledge or skills, but has watched a few movies and enjoys middlebrow television and indie rock, and thus dabbles mostly in that generally useless thing labeled “cultural criticism.” He’s a regular contributor to NRO. His writing has been published in National Review, The New Atlantis, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, Reason, and a number of other publications. He’s also the editor of Doublethink Online (coming soon!). During the day, he works at a non-profit, free-market advocacy group, and will occasionally claim to be a libertarian, but that’s really just Washington code for “argumentative geek.” After a brief stint trying to make it as a stereotypical Brooklynite, he recently returned to the Washington, D.C. area, where he doesn’t ever have to explain to anyone what the Cato Institute is. After a short stopover in the wilds of suburban NoVa, he recently moved to what’s politely known as an “up and coming neighborhood” in the District. He responds to most reasonably sane, not overly belligerent emails sent to peter.suderman@gmail.com.
Matt Frost
Matt Frost works in the American Scene press room, where with pixel-stained fingers he keeps delivering the content necessary to sustain the forward progress of intellectual discourse as we know it. If you have any technical problems with the site, please email Matt at mwfrost {at} gmail dot com. If this site has not wasted enough of your time, you can check out secretplans.org, Matt’s online Museum of the Moderately Interesting.
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs teaches English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His tumblelog is here.
