Wladyslaw Pleszczynski

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Wladyslaw "Wlady" Pleszczynski [1] [2] (born 1949) is an American conservative editor and writer. He is editorial director and web editor of The American Spectator . His tenure at Spectator dates back to the early 1980s.

He is also a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Pleszczynski edited Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11 ( ISBN   978-0817939014) for Hoover Institution Press in 2002. He has written for the Wall Street Journal , Commentary, Slate, and other publications, as well as appearing on C-SPAN. [3] [4]

Pleszczynski is considered a mentor to Malcolm Gladwell. [5] [6]


  1. "What made The Weekly Standard great". The Week. 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
  2. Lindsey, Daryl (2001-05-18). "Smearing David Brock". Salon.com. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
  3. "Wladyslaw Pleszczynski | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
  4. York, Byron (2001-11-01). "The Life and Death of The American Spectator". The Atlantic. ISSN   2151-9463 . Retrieved 2025-10-06.
  5. Shafer, Jack (2008-03-19). "The Fibbing Point". Slate. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 2025-10-06.
  6. Heuck, Douglas. "Paul Kengor, Q&A". Pittsburgh Quarterly. Retrieved 2025-10-06.