US EditionNorman Podhoretz remembered as visionary of neoconservative thought
Podhoretz’s 35-year editorship of Commentary shaped neoconservatism and U.S. Israel policy, influencing GOP presidents and sparking debates over foreign policy and Jewish identity.
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Some insist that a person, let alone an opinion magazine, cannot be said to have changed the world. However, this was true in the case of Norman Podhoretz and Commentary magazine. Man and his magazine helped win the Cold War, while awakening Americans to the moral bankruptcy of modern political liberalism and the threat it posed to the two countries he loved: America and Israel.Read more]]>
Norman Podhoretz remembered as visionary of neoconservative thought
Norman Podhoretz, the pugnacious editor and neoconservative pioneer who died on Tuesday at the age of 95, charted a protean trajectory through American politics and intellectual discourse, rising to prominence as a leading champion of a muscular foreign policy vision conjoined with a fierce support for Israel that influenced such presidents as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Despite his early political conversion from staunch liberal to conser…
Influential neoconservative thinker Norman Podhoretz passes at 95
A giant of conservative intellect has departed, as Norman Podhoretz, the visionary who molded neoconservatism, died at 95 in Manhattan. Podhoretz, the transformative editor of Commentary magazine, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, leaving an indelible mark on American political thought, as confirmed by his son, John Podhoretz, as the Daily Caller reports. Born on Jan. 16, 1930, in Brooklyn to a Yiddish-speaking milkman from Eastern Europe, Podh…
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