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In fact, there has long been a wider support of military hawkishness at play. Before Commentary made its neoconservative turn in 1970, it was an organ of Cold War liberalism. The neoconservative ...
—Norman Podhoretz The ultimate resistance to Negro demands, I am convinced—certainly among Jews, but not Jews alone—is that they pose a serious threat to the ability of other groups to ...
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MAKING IT by Norman Podhoretz. 360 pages. Random House. $6.95. In most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly ...
The mid-20th century cultural tastes of American Jews are explored in three new books: “Postwar Stories” by Rachel Gordan, “Write Like a Man” by Ronnie Grinberg and “Carrying a Big ...
Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary Magazine, a publication focused on conservative Jewish perspectives. His father, Norman Podhoretz, was once the outlet’s editor-in-chief.
The AFL-CIO at the time had a more hawkish position on Poland than the Reagan administration and its allies did; there was a debate in March 1981 between Tom Kahn of the AFL-CIO and Norman Podhoretz, ...
In 2008, neoconservative icon Norman Podhoretz lamented that liberalism had “superseded Judaism and become a religion in its own right.” In 2011, Jewish conservative firebrand Ben Shapiro tweeted, ...
For months before publication, the new autobiographical book by Norman Podhoretz, editor of COMMENTARYmagazine, was the subject of tense speculation, heated gossip, and wouldn’t-touchit-wilh-a ...
In life, observers overlooked writer, editor and political activist Midge Decter, focusing more on her pugnacious husband, Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995. But ...
In 1999, Norman Podhoretz, who edited Commentary magazine for 35 years, wrote a book titled Ex-Friends, in which he explored the reasons for his falling out ...
She would then marry Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary and one of the founders of early neoconservatism, and have with him two children: John Podhoretz, the current editor of ...