John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary and writes the Letter from the Editor column. He was one of the founders of the Weekly Standard and still serves as the magazine's movie critic. A Fox News Channel contributor, he founded Insight magazine as well. The author of four books, including the bestselling Bush Country, Podhoretz was the lead political columnist for the New York Post for 10 years and also served as the paper's editorial-page editor and arts editor. He won the JC Penney–Missouri Journalism Award in 1990. He was a speechwriter for President Reagan and has worked at Time, the Washington Times, and U.S. News and World Report. He was also a five-time Jeopardy! champion.
Recent Blog Posts
- No, the IRS Should Not Be Policing Tax Exemptions Before It Grants Them, May 16 2013
- The IRS Targets Conservative Groups—As It Once Targeted COMMENTARY, May 10 2013
- Pop Culture, Violence, and Shoddy Social Science, Feb 12 2013
- Ed Koch, 1924-2013, Feb 01 2013
- Tonight: David Gelernter in Manhattan, Jan 10 2013
- David Gelernter on Judaism and Christian Art, Jan 08 2013
- John Bolton on Robert Bork, Dec 19 2012
- Robert Bork, 1927-2012, Dec 19 2012
- From Our Pages in 2009: Glorifying A Serial Killer, Dec 15 2012
- Gehenna in Connecticut, Dec 14 2012
Articles
- Taking Obama's Foreign Policy Seriously, May 2013
- Time to Get Serious, Apr 2013
- Age of Obama?, Mar 2013
- The Month That Was—January 2013, Feb 2013
- The Task, Jan 2013
- The Month That Was—November 2012, Nov 2012
- The Way Forward, Nov 2012
- The American Moment, Sep 2012
- New Voices, Jul 2012
- The Limit, Jun 2012
- Culture Warrior in Chief, May 2012
- Rush to War?, Apr 2012
- The Post-American Child, Mar 2012
- Decline Has Been Chosen, Feb 2012
- Balaam's Asses, Jan 2012
- Barack and Bibi, Every Day, Dec 2011
- New Commentaries, Nov 2011
- The Case for Optimism, Nov 2011
- Is This Standard & Poor’s America, or Alexander Hamilton’s America?, Sep 2011
- A Post-Clinton Childhood, Jul 2011
- Rooted, Jun 2011
- The Choice of Richard Goldstone, May 2011
- 'Fire in the Minds of Men', Mar 2011
- Manipulating a Massacre, Feb 2011
- Is Obama’s Fate Already Sealed?, Jan 2011
- Hey, Remember Foreign Policy?, Dec 2010
- The Liberal Crisis, Dec 2010
- How We Do It, Nov 2010
- Christine O'Donnell, Made and Broken by TV, Sep 2010
- This Too Shall Pass, Sep 2010
- How to Provoke, Oct 2010
- The Literary Tradition, Jul 2010
- What is a Symposium?, Jun 2010
- Newsweek Squeak, May 2010
- Mr. President, Your Animus Is Showing, May 2010
- The Upper West Side, Then and Now, May 2010
- Arnold, Apr 2010
- The Purposes of Political Combat, Apr 2010
- Housekeeping, Mar 2010
- The Tolstoy App, Feb 2010
- The Danger of Normaliut, Jan 2010
- False Certainty, Dec 2009
- Leaving Them Wanting More, Nov 2009
- The Return of Bad Ideas, Oct 2009
- The Life of Conservatism, Sep 2009
- The Turn Against Israel, Jul 2009
- Dreams From My President, Jun 2009
- The Reset Button, May 2009
- New Look, Old Truths, Apr 2009
- From the Editor: Exaggerating a Disaster, Mar 2009
- From the Editor: A Magazine and Its Mission, Feb 2009
- An Obama Realignment?, Dec 2008
- The News Mausoleum, May 2008
- The Election, the GOP—and Iraq, Mar 2008
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Heroic Conservatism
by Michael J. Gerson, Jan 2008 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, Jun 2001
- Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman, May 2001
- "Survivor" and the End of Television, Nov 2000
- Groucho & Julius, Sep 2000
- Hollywood vs. America, by Michael Medved, Nov 1992
- A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson, Aug 1992
- Arnold Beichman, 1913-2010, Jan 1970
- Obama Tightens, McCain Broadens, Jan 1970
- Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009, Jan 1970
- The Argument for Lieberman, Jan 1970
