Liberalism’s core class is under siege—can the liberal order survive the global backlash against its institutional power?

The following remarks were delivered at the Bradley Prizes ceremony on May 29 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. We are gathered this evening at the beautiful headquarters of the Daughters ...

All this is amply evident in the new Commentary Reader, edited by Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine’s best articles written by some of the era’s ...

I had to smile when I read that Antony and Cleopatra was the favorite play of a venerable Shakespeare scholar, Samuel Schoenbaum (1927–96). In A&C, writes Van Doren, Shakespeare ...

MAKING IT by Norman Podhoretz. 360 pages. Random House. $6.95. In most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly ...

In 1967, Norman Podhoretz, then the 34-year-old editor of Commentary, published a memoir, Making It, in which he confessed to a powerful drive for status, money, and other conventional forms of ...

One essay opens with Janet Malcolm’s review of Gossip Girl (the books, and one of many, many pieces I had to pause my reading to go track down); two pages later, she’s woven in the memoir by ...

The mid-20th century cultural tastes of American Jews are explored in three new books: “Postwar Stories” by Rachel Gordan, “Write Like a Man” by Ronnie Grinberg and “Carrying a Big ...

The mid-20th century cultural tastes of American Jews are explored in three new books: "Postwar Stories" by Rachel Gordan, "Write Like a Man" by Ronnie Grinberg and "Carrying a Big Schtick" by ...

The people who worked there—people like Susan Sontag and Norman Podhoretz—were intellectual heavyweights, and, though they were very welcoming toward me, I never felt like I fit in.

Sometimes small books can have big impacts — one thinks of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Halford Mackinder’s Democratic Ideals and Reality, Norman Podhoretz’s The Present Danger, and, more ...

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. An education in discernment. Purchase this ...