Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neo-conservative, has died

In Memoriam: Norman Podhoretz — Minding The Campus

Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on December, 17 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Norman Podhoretz, the last of the titans of late twentieth-century neoconservatism, passed away yesterday at age 95. I knew him less well personally than […] The post In Memoriam: Norman Podhoretz appeared first on Minding The…

Norman Podhoretz Was the Ultimate Neocon

My late father knew Norman Podhoretz (Alav Hashalom) when they were both counselors at a Jewish summer camp in upstate New York. This would have been in 1946, maybe 1947. Assigned to write lyrics for an official camp song, they got in trouble for making satirical reference to the management’s pompous boast that it served “a cultured clientele.” I never knew the man (my dad was three years older, and they didn’t stay in touch), but I kind of like…

MORNING GLORY: RIP Norman Podhoretz

Conservative icon Norman Podhoretz dies, leaving a legacy that may have helped create the Reagan presidency and political intellectual discourse.

Norman Podhoretz, Friend and Foe

It is possible to admire Norman Podhoretz, who died on Tuesday, as a beacon of eloquently expressed, relentlessly honest moral clarity. Or to loathe his influence as a prime feeder of self-destructive militaristic hubris, an intellectual spawn of unnecessary killing. I have, in different decades, done both. But both views flow from the same departure point: Norman’s influence as an essayist made him one of the most consequential American intelle…

The Longest Journey Is Over

David Klion With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete. The post The Longest Journey Is Over appeared first on The Nation.

Legendary Conservative Intellectual Norman Podhoretz Dead At 95

'It was a really passionate intellectual life'