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John Podhoretz

Disciplines:
journalism
usa/new york
conservation/conservatism
documentary/commentary

Summary

American conservative commentator — editor of Commentary magazine — former White House speechwriter (Reagan and H.W. Bush) — son of Norman Podhoretz — one of the leading voices in neoconservative political commentary.

Core Contribution

Maintains Commentary magazine as the most intellectually rigorous conservative monthly — under his editorship, Commentary has sustained the engagement with serious ideas (philosophy, history, literature, foreign policy) that distinguishes neoconservatism from populism.

Notable Works & Achievements

Bush Country

Can She Be Stopped?

Commentary editorials

Historical Influences

Norman Podhoretz Commentary magazine tradition

Intellectual Lineage

New York Norman Podhoretz University of Chicago Reagan and H.W. Bush White Houses

Contemporaries & Peers

Norman Podhoretz Bill Kristol Rich Lowry

Minds Influenced

Neoconservative commentary

Intellectual Posterity

Commentary

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