The great conservative journalist Norman Podhoretz often quoted a line by George Orwell. “The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt,” Orwell wrote, “is that it is possible to be a ...

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My father died Tuesday, Dec. 16, a month shy of his 96th birthday. Norman Podhoretz passed peacefully and without pain, with a new translation of “The Odyssey” on his desk that had been sent to him by ...

A New York intellectual and onetime liberal stalwart, his Commentary magazine became his platform as his political and social views turned sharply rightward. By Joseph Berger Norman Podhoretz, the ...

Norman Podhoretz, the boastful, hard-line editor and author whose books, essays and stewardship of Commentary magazine marked a political and deeply personal break from the left and made him a leader ...

(JTA) — Norman Podhoretz, the journalist and public intellectual who charted a path from Jewish liberal to pro-Israel neoconservative that would become well worn, has died at 95. Podhoretz was the ...

After announcing his plans to leave California for Texas last month, comedian Jeff Dye made it clear that this was not a decision he came to overnight. For years, he clung to the belief that the state ...

Actor and campaigner Idris Elba has been knighted, while Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, Matt Lucas, Richard Osman and England's victorious women's football and rugby teams also pick up awards ...

Norman Podhoretz’s friends—there were no dissenting voices among them—warned him not to publish Making It. Lionel Trilling, the high priest of the New York intellectuals, told Podhoretz that his ...

Nearly 1,200 inspirational people from across the UK have been recognised in the King's New Year Honours list for 2026. The ...

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - British police said on Tuesday that comedian and actor Russell Brand had been charged with a new count of rape and another of sexual assault. The new charges - authorised by ...