2. Commentary is a family publication. John Podhoretz, editor since 2009, is son of Midge Decter (first started working at Commentary in 1948, frequent contributor) & Norman Podhoretz (first wrote for it 1953, editor 1960-1995, editor at large 1996-2009).
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3. Podhoretz père, 1993: “Affirmative action and quotas represent the most radical assault yet on the traditional American ethos. It is an assault on the idea that was the revolutionary principle of the American Revolution...the idea that it doesn’t matter who your father was."pic.twitter.com/4mwDkqoHdx
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4. Is it true that American revolution meant "it doesn’t matter who your father was." The Jefferson household might belie that claim. Is it true now, in the era of the Bushes & the Trumps? Is it even true of Commentary magazine, a magazine in orbit of one family since 1948?
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5. Norman "it doesn't matter who your father was" Podhoretz has presided over a magazine that published his wife, his daughters, his son, his son-in-law and a grandson (not a complete inventory). Magazine was taken over by his son.
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6. Commentary in other words is against affirmative action (as an affront to meritocracy) and pro-nepotism (as a necessary compromise within meritocracy). One of their major anti-affirmative action advocates Nathan Glazer accepted arguments in Adam Bellow' In Praise of Nepotismpic.twitter.com/HIxvEwieeE
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7. To figure out what's going on you need someone who has the skills of a forensic accountant with the literary erudition of an old-school New York intellectuals. Fortunately I found someone like that in
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You mean John (not Norman) received a very handsome salary.
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Pretty sure he meant Norman. The data goes back to 2007.
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@HeerJeet: Amusing footnote to Norman's career: He claimed poet Allen Ginsberg wasn't really gay because he didn't act like a queen, and only pretended to be gay to shock the bourgeoisie. (Narrator: He was really gay.) -
I'll just note that in the famous party where Norman Mailer stabbed his first wife, Podhoretz and Ginsberg got into an argument and Ginsberg called NP a "big dumb fuckhead."
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