{"id":27131,"date":"2025-12-17T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27131"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:45:44","slug":"conservative-journalism-giant-norman-podhoretz-dead-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27131","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Journalism Giant Norman Podhoretz Dead at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Norman Podhoretz, a titan of conservative journalism who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from former President George W. Bush, passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 95.<\/p>\n

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For three and a half decades, from 1960 to 1995, Podhoretz was the editor-in-chief of the Jewish political and cultural magazine Commentary. Following that, he held the position of editor-at-large until his passing.<\/p>\n

In an obituary for the publication they both oversaw, John Podhoretz, the late father\u2019s son and current chief editor of Commentary, honored his father.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat you really need to know is that what mattered most to him was writing. Great writing. Good writing. Clear writing. Honest writing. He was the most literate man I have ever known, possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the written word in our time and in times past, who found true moral, intellectual, and aesthetic purpose in the act of reading and deciphering and comprehending. And he was himself a prose stylist of magnificence,\u201d the younger Podhoretz\u00a0wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe often quipped that he would forgive any insult if the person delivering it also said he was a good writer. He was a man of great wit and a man of deep wisdom and he lived an astonishing and uniquely American life. And he bound himself fast to his people, his heritage, and his history. His knowledge extended beyond literature to Jewish history, Jewish thinking, Jewish faith, and the Hebrew Bible, with all of which he was intimately familiar and ever fascinated. He made the life of the mind a joyous sport,\u201d Podhoretz added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThrough his nine-plus decades journeying f[r]om Brooklyn poverty to Manhattan comfort, he fathered and raised four children, 13 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. Though the memory is green, I believe his work and his lineage will serve to honor the astonishing contributions he made to the world he has left,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n