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3 days ago · July 3 2024. 0. In 2000, the New York Times published an excerpt from Norman Podhoretz ’s book My Love Affair with America, a book that bears the delightful subtitle The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative. This excerpt contains no explicit reference to the author’s Jewish upbringing, but it’s hardly a coincidence that the robust ...
3 days ago · Podhoretz, now 94, has said that he initially disliked Donald Trump, but then began to warm up to him, becoming “anti-anti-Trump,” before deciding that he liked Trump after all, because Trump ...
1 day ago · The writings of Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, and Norman Mailer, New York intellectuals all, showed an obsession with masculinity, their own and that of others. They developed an “ideology of ...
3 days ago · Founded in 1945, Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, politics, and social and cultural issues. Besides its strong coverage of cultural issues, Commentary historically provided a strong voice for the anti-Stalinist left. Norman Podhoretz, the founder, originally a liberal Democrat turned neoconservative, moved the ...
2 days ago · Irving Kristol, who pioneered neoconservatism in the 1970s, edited and opined in journals (the most prominent being The Public Interest), arguing for an interventionist US foreign policy with a special Zionist interest in the defense of Israel (other Jewish elites among the first generation of neocon-Zionist writers being Daniel Bell and Norman Podhoretz; Irving’s son, William Kristol, has ...
3 days ago · The book is populated by people who loved to pick sides, but Grinberg stays above the fray. She coolly recounts her subjects’ wildly divergent political trajectories, from the committed leftism of Irving Howe to the rightward drift of Norman Podhoretz, the former editor of Commentary, who became a neoconservative insider.
4 days ago · Editor’s Note: Tom Klingenstein’s newest play, Our American Queen, just completed its initial run at the Flea Theater in New York City.The play follows Kate Chase, daughter of the ambitious Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, as she navigates the personal and political minefields of a nation at war with itself.
