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Without being polemical, I'll say that in the Podhoretz-Decter relationship, Decter was the rock. He had his dalliances with left-liberalism & being a Norman Mailer style poète maudit. She was always firm on the Cold War liberalism synthesis of family values & militarism.
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The drama here is Podhoretz had few wild years of drinking and fooling around. Decter stayed true, not just to family but ideology of family values, Israel, USA militarism. When husband ready to settle down, her gravitational pull brought him back to that.
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I think Himmelfarb’s stature vis a vis her husband and their peers is recognized by those who have read her—
@KJTorrance for example. But being serious and less of a controversialist (not that she was controversy averse) might be worse for one’s place in cultural memory. -
Yes obviously anyone who has read, say, The Idea of Poverty as against Kristol's essay collections will understand the relative stature. But in popular understanding of neo-conservatism, she's rarely mentioned.
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