The intellectually courageous magazine editor changed minds and shaped history.

There are those who insist that no one person, let alone a journal of opinion, can be said to have changed the world. Yet this was true of Norman Podhoretz ...

Norman Podhoretz, the neo-conservative and former Commentary editor, is a stocky, confident man whose book-filled Upper East Side apartment features a bronzed wall image of Teddy Roosevelt with a bold ...

Charles de Gaulle, a titan not prone to false modesty, wrote four volumes of memoirs. Norman Podhoretz—De Gaulle’s equal in self-regard, if not in achievement—has also given us four autobiographical ...

On October 16, 2023, John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, tweeted. Podhoretz’s defining trait is the tension between his desire to be seen as a serious intellectual and his compulsion to say ...

One of the most contentious questions in American political thought over the past half-dozen years has been whether Donald Trump represents a departure from the ideals of American conservatism or, ...

Glenn Greenwald, the influential constitutionalist at Salon, misrepresents Norman Podhoretz, who misrepresents American Jewish behavior, and now I’ve got a headache. Let’s dispense first with ...

n his introduction to Thomas L. Jeffers’s anthology of the best articles and essays of Norman Podhoretz, historian Paul Johnson writes that the former Commentary editor is “the archetype of the New ...

In a tweet on Tuesday evening, columnist and editor John Podhoretz called HuffPost senior correspondent Akbar Shahid Ahmed “Hamas Boy,” a post he’s since deleted. Podhoretz’s post was in response to a ...

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 with former friends and colleagues in the ...

Commentary Magazine editor-in-chief John Podhoretz declared victory on Tuesday after receiving a handwritten apology from the manager of Schnippers, a local New York City restaurant chain, after his ...