Author Archive
John Podhoretz

If He Only Had a Heart
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book quite as eye-opening as Michael Oren’s Ally, the bestselling historian’s stunning new memoir of his four...

If He Only Had a Heart
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book quite as eye-opening as Michael Oren’s Ally, the bestselling historian’s stunning new memoir of his four...

Throw Out the Polls
William Goldman famously explained Hollywood’s inability to make more hits than flops with the pithy three-word line “nobody knows anything.” Motion-picture executives are paid tens...
The Emergency
We have entered a state of emergency. The Obama administration is pursuing policies that effectively serve the purposes of one of America’s greatest foes and...
The Emergency
We have entered a state of emergency. The Obama administration is pursuing policies that effectively serve the purposes of one of America’s greatest foes and...
The Censors Win
“Mrs. Grundy” was the term first applied more than two centuries ago to a certain type of social and cultural enforcer, the sort who took...
Memories of Anthrax
Watching the explosion of “gotcha” outrage at the release of the so-called torture report on the part of many who had long ago determined that...
The Repudiation of Barack Obama
Barack Obama began the press conference he held the day after his party was crushed in the 2014 midterm elections by implying that the results...