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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

      1. Late last month, a post by Dan Scott got a lot of attention for showing that a) Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz received a very handsome salary & b) Commentary is losing money rapidly & depleting net assets. What's going on? Some family history can help explain.pic.twitter.com/DCyosfOLYq

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11

          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 @jakebackpackhttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-rise-and-possible-fall?r=bh54&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …

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        1. William Earl Burns‏ @williameburns13 Apr 11
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          Or the Adamses.

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        1. Tw¡tter Stinks...It's Musky‏ @FlamesJane Apr 11
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          "Do as I say, not as I do." -Grandpappy Podhoretz, probably

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        2. Sean O'Hara‏ @noculottes Apr 11
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          Doesn't the Jefferson household prove the claim? Bei g Tommy-boy's son offered no protection from slavery.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 11
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          Jefferson treated his slave children differently than other enslaved.

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