• Norman Podhoretz on the Spiritual War for America

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    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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