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

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

Norman Podhoretz: The Longest Journey in the World

On Wednesday morning, we woke up to the news that legendary magazine editor Norman Podhoretz had died peacefully in Manhattan. He was 95. Podhoretz, who edited Commentary magazine between 1960 and 1995, was renowned as one of the great giants of neoconservatism—an irrepressible intellectual force in American public life.Several months ago, I had the honor of meeting Norman, to interview him for a piece in The Free Press, which we’re reprinting b…