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Mar 2, 2011 · Conventional wisdom has it that the story of longtime Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz is the story of a political journey from left to right. Podhoretz biographer Thomas Jeffers...
In sum, Podhoretz is both an unabashed American patriot and a firm supporter of Israel—and one who sees no contradiction between the two. He was an opponent of legal segregation and a critic of affirmative action and sees no contradiction there as well.
- John C. Chalberg
May 1, 2013 · “My Negro Problem-and Ours” at 50 – Commentary Magazine. Reflections on a controversial essay and its legacy. by Norman Podhoretz. This year marks the 50th anniversary of possibly the most controversial but certainly the most notorious piece ever published in COMMENTARY from that day to this.
As for white hatred of the Negro, how could guilt have had anything to do with it? What share had these Italian and Jewish immigrants in the enslavement of the Negro? What share had they—downtrodden people themselves breaking their own necks to eke out a living—in the exploitation of the Negro?
This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the influential magazine Commentary. As both an editor and a writer, he spearheaded the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and – after he “broke ranks” – the neoconservative response.
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As Jeffers demonstrates in a lucid account of Podhoretz’s early life and career, if Podhoretz was proud of making it so quickly, he had certainly earned it. He was a prize pupil of Lionel Trilling and a respected one of F. R. Leavis, two almost mythical figures in the pantheon of literary criticism.
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His first real job was as a young editor at Commentary —by then, in the mid-1950s, a leading voice of the high-culture, anti-Communist left, with Jewish interests but no defined vision of what a flourishing Jewish future in America (or Israel) should really look like.
