Norman Podhoretz on the Spiritual War for America
By Barton Swaim, 12/10/21, Wall St. Journal
Podhoretz was only 30 when he became editor of Commentary,
then a magazine of the left. Over the next several years
he began to reject the Marxian attitude of his fellow
New York intellectuals. “I broke with the left mainly
because of its anti-Americanism. When you’re hanging around
with people, you hear things they don’t say in public.
I knew what they thought, what they didn’t say except in
private. And what they thought was horrendous to me.”
Each of his 4 autobiographical books—“Making It,” (1967)
“Breaking Ranks” (1979), “Ex-Friends” (1999) & “My Love
Affair With America” (2000)—is in some way an account of
his estrangement from the left as a consequence of its
refusal, as he saw it, to embrace the U.S., its history
and its culture.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/norman-podhoretz-spiritual-war-for-america-conservatism-republican-trump-youngkin-carlson-11639149560
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