Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neo-conservative, has died

Norman Podhoretz, Friend and Foe

It is possible to admire Norman Podhoretz, who died on Tuesday, as a beacon of eloquently expressed, relentlessly honest moral clarity. Or to loathe his influence as a prime feeder of self-destructive militaristic hubris, an intellectual spawn of unnecessary killing. I have, in different decades, done both. But both views flow from the same departure point: Norman’s influence as an essayist made him one of the most consequential American intelle…

Legendary Conservative Intellectual Norman Podhoretz Dead At 95

'It was a really passionate intellectual life'

Legendary Conservative Intellectual Dead At 95

Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative titan who edited Commentary magazine for 35 years, died Tuesday in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 95.

Norman Podhoretz, RIP – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

“I would have been hailed with approval if I had died at 50,” W. E. B. Du Bois wrote upon turning 90. “At 75 my death was practically requested.” Norman Podhoretz, another well-traveled intellectual who also lived to 95, could have said something similar about his own life. He died on Tuesday a month shy of 96. Du Bois went from a Berkshires birth to a funeral blessed by a witch doctor in Ghana, from mocking Marcus Garvey’s Pan Africanism to ren…

Influential voice in American politics dies at 95

NEW YORK CITY, New York — Norman Podhoretz, a figure in American political journalism whose long editorship of Commentary Magazine helped define the 20th-century neoconservative movement, has died at 95, his son, John, wrote in a commentary Tuesday on the magazine’s website.

The Meaning of Norman Podhoretz

Today, we discuss the life, work, and ideas of longtime COMMENTARY editor and intellectual giant Norman Podhoretz, who died yesterday at age 95. From there, we move on to the