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	Norman Podhoretz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Podhoretz (born January 16, 1930) is an American intellectual considered to be a prominent neo-conservative thinker and writer.
		Norman Podhoretz was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a low-income neighborhood in racial transition.
		Married to neo-conservative author Midge Decter, Podhoretz is the father of John Podhoretz, a right-wing syndicated columnist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Podhoretz (464 words)

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		Podhoretz was a major player in that mission, as editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995, as well as author of six books and hundreds of articles and editorials.
		In his article Podhoretz bemoaned the lack of fl-and-white moral clarity in Arendt's account of the Eichmann trial; in her "perverse" pursuit of paradox and ambiguity, she had the audacity, on the one hand, to describe this Nazi as banal and, on the other, the Jews as complicit in their own destruction.
		Podhoretz remarks, "As any reader of the obituary pages could testify, Lillian was not the only old Stalinist to whom this same absolution was extended." Many of them have died and have been celebrated as "progressive" heroes or martyrs during the persecutions of the McCarthy period.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/podhoretz-review.html (6030 words)

	The Evil of Banality by Murray N. Rothbard
		Podhoretz’s first autobiography was the notorious Making It, with its title and content proudly proclaiming its author the intellectual’s Sammy Glick, a man who pushed and elbowed his way upward from the ranks to what passes for fame and fortune.
		Podhoretz and his publisher have indeed managed to redefine the concept of "courage," for which the publisher’s blurb expects his readers to be eternally grateful.
		Explicitly and unabashedly, Podhoretz assumes ideological positions "on the basis of the old question ‘Is it good for the Jews?’" Not for Podhoretz the older, broader, but presumably namby-pamby ideal of the intellectual as citizen of the world.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard52.html (1244 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Norman Podhoretz Reader : A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s: Books: Norman ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Podhoretz had his fling with antinomianism in the '50's and '60's--that is, an attitude of hostility to law.
		Norman Podhoretz pretends to be a sophisticated thinker, however the essays in this book reveal him to be a fairly simplistic person, at least as far as politics are concerned.
		Podhoretz could have been the prophet that he is praised as being.
	www.amazon.ca /Norman-Podhoretz-Reader-Selection-Writings/dp/0743236610 (1404 words)

	Norman Podhoretz Collected - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Norman Podhoretz is one of the patrons of neoconservatism, and this collection provides a snapshot of his writings over five decades.
		Podhoretz's takedown of the overrated Berlin, for example, is based on the conclusion that he fell short when it came time to defend the liberal pluralism he championed in his writings.
		Podhoretz and his generation of intellectuals suffered through was, of course, only one of a cluster of responses that formed the conservative movement.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20040117-075427-6425r.htm (1429 words)

	Ex-Friends
		Podhoretz is today a staunch political conservative; he was one of the most visible and outspoken of the Reagan-era "neoconservatives" during the 1980s as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine.
		Podhoretz doesn’t just throw these terms around, he gives them context and meaning within the lives of the personalities for whom so much was felt to be at stake.
		Podhoretz flat out accuses her of "deliberate lies." There appears to be some accuracy to several of his charges, but he clearly has his own ideological bias, not to mention a disregard for Hellman’s writing style, which he finds cheaply derivative of Dashiell Hammett and Ernest Hemingway.
	www.culturevulture.net /books/Ex-Friends.htm (681 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Gil Kane and Norman Podhoretz"
		Podhoretz was especially proud to be accepted as a New York intellectual, in influential coterie that included Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Ralph Ellison.
		Podhoretz, for all his hostility to popular culture, remained influenced by the pulp novels of his youth.
		Podhoretz is still going strong, and his early work is also being brought back into print: This month the Free Press will issue The Norman Podhoretz Reader, a substantial survey of his career.
	www.jeetheer.com /comics/kanepodhoretz.htm (1640 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| A Sharp Eye and a Sharp Tongue
		Podhoretz is -- and to feel a twinge of regret that politics and polemics, over the years, pulled him away from the literary studies with which he began his career as an intellectual and a writer.
		Podhoretz's articles and books, are without their own interest.
		Podhoretz shows a penetrating critical acumen, dismissing Jack Kerouac and the Beats at the height of their vogue as belonging, in effect, to the history of publicity rather than literature (as Leavis said of the Sitwells).
	www.jamesbowman.net /articleDetail.asp?pubID=1476 (717 words)

	Norman Podhoretz
		If self-love, the celebration of himself and his friends and associates, is the overarching theme of the Podhoretz's autobiographical series, then the love of war is a major sub-theme, one especially noticeable in the present work...
		This is the real story of Norman Podhoretz and his alleged love affair with America — it is the tale of a faddist with a purpose, a man always positioning himself for maximum access to the one thing he truly wants and worships — power.
		The administration's defenders are shooting blindly, averring — per Norman Podhoretz — that, since "everybody" believed what the administration was claiming about Iraq's alleged WMD prior to the invasion, we're all living in the same alternate universe.
	www.mediatransparency.org /personprofile.php?personID=65 (410 words)

	Writers' Representatives, LLC: The Norman Podhoretz Reader
		Those coming to Podhoretz for the first time — and even those more familiar with his later years — might be surprised to see how much of the READER is devoted to literature.
		Podhoretz is — and to feel a twinge of regret that politics and polemics, over the years, pulled him away from the literary studies with which he began his career as an intellectual and a writer....
		Podhoretz continues to remain a figure of importance, as his 2002 book on the Bible, THE PROPHETS: Who They Were, What They Are, showed, and will continue to pour out powerful work.
	www.writersreps.com /book.cfm?BookID=288 (757 words)

	The Vocation of Norman Podhoretz - M.E. Bradford
		Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, describes himself as a New York Jewish intellectual.
		In a very distinctive milieu, a context created and sustained by a coterie (which Podhoretz has called "the Family") and an audience that has responded to it, he has through several stages and transformations, made his way by what he writes, or encourages others to write, or says as a critic of their work.
		For Podhoretz has been educated twice over for a priesthood; once in the College of Jewish Theological Seminary for one sort of rabbinate, and then again at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis for another.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1986/september/Sa11601.htm (256 words)

	Countervailing Trends in American Jewry: An Interview with Norman Podhoretz - Manfred Gerstenfeld
		Retired editor of Commentary Norman Podhoretz told a conference a few years ago that in his youth: "I was infected with the virus of utopianism, from which I have spent the last forty years recovering." He analyzes developments in the American Jewish community with this in mind.
		For Podhoretz - a radical in his younger days who was never a communist - the community's main characteristic is the presence of two countervailing trends, which are difficult to measure by opinion polls or sociological analysis.
		Podhoretz considers most Jewish leaders self-appointed and wonders "how many divisions they have behind them." Yet he says, "there has been a change since the second intifada, 9/11, and the war in Iraq.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp505.htm (4188 words)

	Norman Podhoretz’s Constitution Problem
		Insofar as the Constitution incarnates a political anthropology, misconstruction of that document entails a misunderstanding of the American polity and the culture from which it derives.
		Podhoretz torpedoes his critique, though, with his description of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a law "in undisputed accord with the Constitution." That’s a bold assertion; it’s also baloney (to use a mild adjective).
		Podhoretz’s constitutional oscillations reflect a fundamental deficiency in neoconservatism.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/kantor1.html (746 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Norman Podhoretz
		Podhoretz was much friendlier with Lillian Hellman, the two of them sharing many confidences and often exchanging visits.
		Podhoretz didn't like her work but said he did.
		A kind friend of Podhoretz has suggested that Hannah wrote those nasty passages just to please her friend Mary, who had never forgiven Norman for his review of....Well, these are complicated lives.
	www.robertfulford.com /Podhoretz.html (677 words)

	PAT BUCHANAN'S RESPONSE TO NORMAN PODHORETZ'S OP-ED - BUCHANAN CAMPAIGN PRESS RELEASES - T H E I N T E ...
		Podhoretz says that I have a "habit of championing the cause of almost anyone accused of participating actively in Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews."
		Podhoretz' charges are recycled garbage from his old compactor, Commentary.
		Podhoretz speaks of the "incredible words" I wrote for Ronald Reagan to justify a presidential visit to Bitburg.
	www.buchanan.org /pma-99-1105-wallstjl.html (1068 words)

	Charles R. Kesler on The Norman Podhoretz Reader on National Review Online
		And among the chief contributors was Norman Podhoretz, who in nine books and in his 35 years as editor of Commentary powerfully shaped the neoconservative "tendency," as he prefers to call it.
		Podhoretz's achievements as an editor are immense and not easily captured in an anthology, though Jeffers includes "In Defense of Editing," a gem that Podhoretz wrote for Harper's in 1965.
		Podhoretz turned Commentary into an indispensable journal, a crucible in which Reaganite arguments, especially on foreign policy, were annealed and honed.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/kesler200403251147.asp (1159 words)

	Conservative Blog: Right Side Redux - Right Side Redux: Conservative Bio: Norman Podhoretz
		Norman Podhoretz was a senior fellow from 1995 - 2003.
		Podhoretz was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree.
		Podhoretz has a Bachelor's degree in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary and he has been awarded honorary doctorates by Hamilton College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, Boston University, and Adelphi University.
	www.rightsideredux.com /2004/05/conservative-bio-norman-podhoretz.html (268 words)

	Norman Podhoretz's discourses on America Hudson Review, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Podhoretz is glad to live in a country that is "merely" good.
		Crevecoeur was a Physiocrat: the material conditions of the New World (notably in the middle settlements between the barbarous frontier in the West, the feudality in the South, and the cities along the northeast corridor) had themselves created a new kind of human being, the American, adapted to live in it.
		Early in My Love Affair he recalls how, at five years old (he was born in 1930), he told a teacher he was "goink op de stez"-a Yiddishy declaration that got him sent to a remedial speech class, where no one pretended that such an accent was a museum-worthy dialect needing protection.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4021/is_200107/ai_n8955016 (702 words)

	My Podhoretz Problem – and Ours
		Podhoretz's Commentary was respected – even (or perhaps especially) by its opponents – as that rare magazine in which the editor's passion had never flagged.
		Norman and the magazine he edited for thirty-five years are now among the leading American voices for the idea that the Palestinians should have no serious political or national rights in historic Palestine, none whatsoever.
		Podhoretz and his fellow neoconservatives have regularly served as the American cheerleaders for this powerful Israeli faction, heaping praise on Begin, Shamir, Netanyahu and Sharon, and attacking their American detractors.
	www.antiwar.com /mcconnell/mc040202.html (1068 words)

	Response to Norman Podhoretz
		Norman Podhoretz’s brilliant survey of the intellectual terrain of American foreign policy leads me to two principal reflections.
		Where Norman Podhoretz sides, on balance, with the more ideological enthusiasms of William Kristol and Robert Kagan, I see the tides shifting in the other direction.
		But just as Nixon and Kissinger’s attempt to win the country over to their realist philosophy failed during the Vietnam era (spawning the resurgence of Wilsonianism that was reflected in both Carter and Reagan), now Bill Clinton’s misadventures have triggered a reaction to Wilsonianism.
	www.nixoncenter.org /publications/articles/11_99Commentary.htm (906 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Norman Podhoretz, Former Editor Commentary
		In celebration of a 50-year editorial career, Norman Podhoretz has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded to a civilian by the commander in chief.
		Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to Jewish immigrants, Podhoretz began his political career as a devout liberal.
		While he risked isolating himself from former colleagues, Podhoretz believed he was on the proper path for himself.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /NormanPodhoretz.htm (484 words)

	Booknotes
		With wit, piercing insight, and startling honesty, we are introduced as never before to a type of person for whom ideas were often matters of life and death, and whose passing from the scene has left so large a gap in American culture.
		Podhoretz was the trailblazer of the now-famous journey of a number of his fellow intellectuals from radicalism to conservatism—a journey through which they came to exercise both cultural and political influence far beyond their number.
		With this fascinating account of his once happy and finally troubled relations with these cultural icons, Podhoretz helps us understand why that journey was undertaken and just how consequential it became.
	www.booknotes.org /Program/?ProgramID=1508 (242 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Podhoretz, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Podhoretz, Norman 1930-, American editor and essayist, b.
		Kill Hill: John Podhoretz's nightmare fantasy of a Hillary presidency.(Can She Be Stopped?
		Norman's conquest: a commentary on the Podhoretz legacy.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Podhoretz, (278 words)

	Featured Author: Norman Podhoretz
		Podhoretz says, the United States was morally right to have been involved in the war.
		At a time when the American policy of detente with the Soviet Union seemed to be unraveling, Podhoretz argues that the Soviets had never abandoned Cold War practices in the first place.
		Podhoretz uses the example of Vietnam and other interventions past to assess whether the U.S. should fight in El Salvador despite a lack of consensus.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/07/16/specials/podhoretz.html (443 words)

	An Interview with Norman Podhoretz
		Podhoretz now adds: "Though the road map process is still in its very early stages, we may be witnessing a similar drama here.
		History never repeats itself fully, and Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush are likely to be tougher on terrorism and entertain fewer illusions about the Palestinians than their predecessors.
		Podhoretz says, "I am putting my money on George Bush and betting that he will not force Israel to pay such a price.
	frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=10529 (4112 words)

	The New Criterion — Norman Podhoretz & the nature of things
		A review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950’s Through the 1990’s, by Norman Podhoretz, edited by Thomas L. Jeffers.
		The Norman Podhoretz Reader,[1] a generous selection of writings from the distinguished critic and editor of Commentary from 1960 to 1995, reminds us that the distinctions so wistfully longed for by Mr.
		Podhoretz recounts the happiness Mary McCarthy said she felt when “she suddenly realized one day that she cared about the outcome of the war, that she wanted the United States to win”—the point surely being...
	newcriterion.com /archives/22/03/podhoretz-mcgurn (262 words)

	Norman Podhoretz
		That’s the sober assessment of Norman Podhoretz, the neo-conservative thinker who for 35 years was the distinguished editor of Commentary magazine.
		But among themselves, in their textbooks and newspapers, they cling to the idea of jihad, of driving the Jews into the sea and destroying the Jewish state.
		Podhoretz said that Hamas is about to issue a new edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and that Cairo is the center of the publication of the infamous czarist forgery, Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
	www.15minutesmagazine.com /archives/Issue_06/norman_podhoretz.htm (429 words)

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