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Commentary is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 monthly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 covering politics
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
, international affairs
International relations

International relations represents the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, international organization , non-governmental organizations , and multinational corporations ....
, Judaism
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
, and social, cultural, and literary issues.

ommentary was founded by the American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee

The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world....
 in 1945, and bills itself as "America's premier monthly magazine of opinion." Initially a strong voice for liberal anti-communism
Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Historically, the word communism has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and their supporters, but, since the mid-19th century, the dominant school of communism in the world has been Marxism....
, the magazine turned left during the early 1960s. Starting in the late 1960s it reversed this leftward shift, eventually becoming the flagship of neoconservatism
Neoconservatism

Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States. Its key distinction is in international affairs, where it espouses an interventionist approach that seeks to defend what neo-conservatives deem as national interests....
 in the 1970s.

Currently edited by John Podhoretz, its founder and original editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
 was Elliot E. Cohen
Elliot E. Cohen

Elliot E. Cohen was editor of Commentary Magazine magazine, then published by the American Jewish Committee, from 1945 until his death in 1959....
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Commentary is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 monthly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 covering politics
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
, international affairs
International relations

International relations represents the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, international organization , non-governmental organizations , and multinational corporations ....
, Judaism
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
, and social, cultural, and literary issues.

History

Commentary was founded by the American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee

The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world....
 in 1945, and bills itself as "America's premier monthly magazine of opinion." Initially a strong voice for liberal anti-communism
Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Historically, the word communism has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and their supporters, but, since the mid-19th century, the dominant school of communism in the world has been Marxism....
, the magazine turned left during the early 1960s. Starting in the late 1960s it reversed this leftward shift, eventually becoming the flagship of neoconservatism
Neoconservatism

Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States. Its key distinction is in international affairs, where it espouses an interventionist approach that seeks to defend what neo-conservatives deem as national interests....
 in the 1970s.

Currently edited by John Podhoretz, its founder and original editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
 was Elliot E. Cohen
Elliot E. Cohen

Elliot E. Cohen was editor of Commentary Magazine magazine, then published by the American Jewish Committee, from 1945 until his death in 1959....
. He was succeeded after his death in 1959 by Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz

Norman B. Podhoretz is an United States Neoconservatism theorist and writer for Commentary ....
, who served as editor-in-chief until 1995 and is currently the magazine's editor-at-large. Neal Kozodoy was editor between 1995 and January 2009.

The magazine is no longer affiliated with the American Jewish Committee. In 2007, Commentary, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit enterprise, became the magazine's publisher.

In January 2007 Commentary launched a new blog contentions.

Layout

Currently, Commentary prints letters to the editor that comment on various articles three issues earlier. The more critical and lengthy letters tend to be printed first and the more praiseful letters last. The author of the article being discussed almost always replies in a follow-up to his critics. Each issue has several reviews of books on varying topics. Commentary usually assigns a review to books written by notable contributors to the magazine.

In Popular Culture

In the 1977 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 movie, Annie Hall
Annie Hall

Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
, Allen (as character Alvy Singer) makes a pun by saying that he heard that Dissent
Dissent (magazine)

Dissent is a leading intellectual magazine of politics and culture. It was founded in 1954 by a group of New York Intellectuals, which included Irving Howe, Lewis A....
 and Commentary had merged to form "Dysentery". In Bananas, as an old lady is threatened on a subway car, Woody Allen hides his face by holding up an issue of Commentary. This image is featured at the New York City Transit Museum in Brooklyn Heights. In Woody Allen's film Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors is a black comedy/thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Allen, Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason....
, an issue of Commentary lies on a character's bedside table.

Current Staff

  • Editor, John Podhoretz
    John Podhoretz

    John Podhoretz is an U.S. conservative commentator for a variety of media sources, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter....
  • Senior Editor, Gabriel Schoenfeld
    Gabriel Schoenfeld

    Gabriel Schoenfeld is a resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1994 to 2008 he was senior editor of Commentary ....
  • Assistant Editor, David Billet
  • Editor-at-Large, Norman Podhoretz
    Norman Podhoretz

    Norman B. Podhoretz is an United States Neoconservatism theorist and writer for Commentary ....
  • Business Director, Sarah M. Stern
  • Business Associate, Ilya Leyzerzon
  • Sales Representative, Del Fidanque
  • Production Manager, Marietta M. Gat
  • Online Editor, Abe Greenwald
  • Publisher, Teri Schure


Notable contributors

  • S.Y. Agnon
  • Elliott Abrams
    Elliott Abrams

    Elliott Abrams is an United States lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican Party President of the United States, Ronald Reagan and George W....
  • Hannah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt

    Hannah Arendt was an influential Germany-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theory because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on...
  • Robert Alter
    Robert Alter

    Robert Alter is a Bible scholar and the Class of '37 Professor of Hebrew language and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967....
  • Paul Auster
    Paul Auster

    Paul Benjamin Auster is a Brooklyn-based author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace and Brooklyn Follies ....
  • James Baldwin
    James Baldwin

    James Baldwin may refer to:*James Baldwin *James Baldwin *James Baldwin *J. Baldwin , industrial designer, author, educator*James Mark Baldwin , philosopher and psychologist...
  • Daniel Bell
    Daniel Bell

    Daniel Bell is a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is also a director of Suntory Foundation and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....
  • Saul Bellow
    Saul Bellow

    Saul Bellow , was an acclaimed Canada-United States writer born in Canada of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988....
  • William Bennett
    William Bennett

    William John Bennett is an United States conservatism Pundit_, politician, and political theorist. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988....
  • David Berger
    David Berger (professor)

    Rabbi Dr.David Berger is head of the Jewish Studies department at Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, as well as dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School....
  • Peter Ludwig Berger
  • Allan Bloom
    Allan Bloom

    Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss....
  • Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom

    Harold Bloom is an United States author, intellectual and literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romanticism poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary...
  • Max Boot
    Max Boot

    Max Boot is a United States author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for an actively engaged defense and foreign policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world....
  • Robert Bork
    Robert Bork

    Robert Heron Bork is a conservative United States legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as United States Solicitor General, acting United States Attorney General, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit....
  • Peter Brimelow
    Peter Brimelow

    Peter Brimelow is a British American financial journalist, author, and founder of VDARE. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including Forbes Magazine, the Financial Post, and National Review....
  • David Brooks
    David Brooks (journalist)

    'David Brooks' is a Canadian-American political and cultural commentator. Brooks served as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic...
  • William Buckley
    William Buckley

    William Buckley may refer to:* William F. Buckley, Jr. , American author and conservative commentator* William Frank Buckley, Sr. , lawyer in Tampico, Mexico ...
  • Mona Charen
    Mona Charen

    Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated neoconservative columnist, political analyst, and the author of two best-selling books, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First and Do-Gooders: How Liberals Harm Those They Claim to Help ? and the Rest of Us ....
  • Linda Chavez
    Linda Chavez

    Linda Chavez is an American American Conservatism author, Pundit , and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a Print syndication column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Ind...
  • Eliot A. Cohen
    Eliot A. Cohen

    Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University....
  • Seth Cropsey
    Seth Cropsey

    Seth Cropsey is an United States neoconservative political figure.He is the son of Joseph Cropsey noted Straussian political philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago....
  • David G. Dalin
    David G. Dalin

    David Gil Dalin is an United States historian and author. Dalin co-author of several books on Jewish history. He is currently a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University, and was previously associate professor of American Jewish history at the University of Hartford....
  • Lucy Dawidowicz
    Lucy Dawidowicz

    Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz , was an American historian and an author of books on modern Jewish history, in particular books on the Holocaust....
  • Midge Decter
    Midge Decter

    Midge Decter is an American neoconservative journalist and author of various books, including:*Losing the First Battle, Winning the War*The Liberated Woman and Other Americans...
  • Alan Dershowitz
    Alan Dershowitz

    Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, jurist, and pundit . He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is known for his career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict....
  • Dinesh D'Souza
    Dinesh D'Souza

    Dinesh D'Souza is an author and public speaker who once served as the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University....
  • Joseph Epstein
    Joseph Epstein (writer)

    Joseph Epstein is a Chicago, Illinois essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's The American Scholar magazine and for his recent essay collection, Snobbery: The American Version....
  • Douglas J. Feith
  • Leslie Fiedler
    Leslie Fiedler

    Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an USA literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature....
  • David Frum
    David Frum

    David J. Frum is a Canadian-born neoconservative journalist active in the both United States and Canadian political arenas. A former economic speechwriter for President of the United States of America George W....
  • Francis Fukuyama
    Francis Fukuyama

    Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American philosopher, Political economy, and author....
  • Frank Gaffney
    Frank Gaffney

    Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is the founder and president of the think tank Center for Security Policy, as well as a contributor, contributing editor, and columnist for a number of publications, including the Washington Times, National Review Online, WorldNetDaily, and Jewish World Review....
  • Sir Martin Gilbert
  • Nathan Glazer
    Nathan Glazer

    Nathan Glazer is an United States sociologist, who taught at UC Berkeley and Harvard University. He is a domestic policy neoconservative, editor of the defunct policy journal The Public Interest, and formerly a frequent contributor to The New Republic....
  • Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
  • Allegra Goodman
    Allegra Goodman

    Allegra Goodman is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, Intuition, was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven....
  • Paul Goodman
    Paul Goodman

    Paul Goodman may refer to:*Paul Goodman , British politician*Paul Goodman , American ice hockey player*Paul Goodman , Grammy Award-winning sound engineer...
  • Clement Greenberg
    Clement Greenberg

    Clement Greenberg was an influential United States art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he militant critic the Abstract Expressionism movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock....
  • Boris Gulko
    Boris Gulko

    Boris Franzevich Gulko is a U.S. International Grandmaster in chess. In Russian, his name is pronounced "bah-REES gul-KO".As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2576, making him the # 12 player in the US and the 214th-highest rated player in the world....
  • Ernest van den Haag
    Ernest van den Haag

    Ernest van den Haag was a Dutch -United States sociologist, social critic, and John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University....
  • Hillel Halkin
    Hillel Halkin

    Hillel Halkin is the author of several books, among which is the NY Times Bestseller Letters to an American-Jewish Friend: A Zionist Polemic, and Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel....
  • Oscar Handlin
    Oscar Handlin

    Oscar Handlin is an United States historian....
  • Victor Davis Hanson
    Victor Davis Hanson

    Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, notable as a scholar of ancient warfare....
  • Michael Harrington
    Michael Harrington

    Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington was an United States democratic socialism, writer, political activist, professor of political science, and radio commentator....
  • Jeffrey Hart
    Jeffrey Hart

    Jeffrey Peter Hart and raised in New York, New York, is a cultural critic, professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, essayist, and columnist who lives in New Hampshire, United States....
  • David Hazony
    David Hazony

    David Hazony is an Israeli writer and scholar. He is a regular contributor to Contentions, the blog of Commentary Magazine. Until 2007, he was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and from 2004-2007 served as editor in chief of Azure , its quarterly....
  • Joseph Heller
    Joseph Heller

    Joseph Heller was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II....
  • Richard Herrnstein
    Richard Herrnstein

    Richard J. Herrnstein was a prominent United States researcher in animal learning in the B. F. Skinner tradition. He was one of the founders of Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior....
  • Arthur Hertzberg
    Arthur Hertzberg

    Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative Judaism rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist....
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb
    Gertrude Himmelfarb

    Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an United States historian who has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....
  • Milton Himmelfarb
    Milton Himmelfarb

    Milton Himmelfarb was an American sociography of the Jewish American community.He worked for four decades at the American Jewish Committee where he was director of information and research services....
  • Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter

    Richard Hofstadter was an United States historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. One of the leading public intellectuals of the 1950s, his works include The Age of Reform and Anti-intellectualism in American Life , both of which won the Pulitzer Prize?the former for History and the latter fo...
  • Sidney Hook
    Sidney Hook

    Sidney Hook was a prominent New York intellectual and philosopher who championed pragmatism....
  • David Horowitz
    David Horowitz

    David Joel Horowitz is an American conservatism writer and activist. The son of two life-long members of the Communist Party, and a former supporter of Marxism as well as a former member of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz later renounced his "left-wing political radicalism" and became an advocate for conservatism....
  • Irving Howe
    Irving Howe

    Irving Howe , was an American literary and social critic. He was born as Irving Horenstein in The Bronx, New York, as a son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression....
  • H. Stuart Hughes
    H. Stuart Hughes

    Henry Stuart Hughes was an United States historian, professor, and activism....
  • Samuel Huntington
    Samuel Huntington

    Samuel Huntington may refer to:* Samuel Huntington , American jurist, statesman, and revolutionary leader* Samuel H. Huntington American jurist...
  • Carol Iannone
    Carol Iannone

    Carol Iannone is a conservative writer and literary critic. She first made her mark as a strong critic of feminism in articles such as "The Barbarism of Feminist Scholarship." She has published extensively in Commentary magazine, National Review, First Things, Modern Age, The American Conservative, Academic Questions,...
  • Tamar Jacoby
    Tamar Jacoby

    Tamar Jacoby is known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues.A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books....
  • Josef Joffe
    Josef Joffe

    Josef Joffe is editor and publisher of Die Zeit, a weekly Germany newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institu...
  • Daniel Johnson
    Daniel Johnson

    Daniel Johnson may refer to* Daniel Johnson , English buccaneer* Daniel Johnson, Sr. , politician, leader of the Union Nationale party and Quebec premier, 1966?1968...
  • Paul Johnson
    Paul Johnson (journalist)

    Paul Bede Johnson is a United Kingdom Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and Magdalen College, Oxford, University of Oxford....
  • Donald Kagan
    Donald Kagan

    Donald Kagan is an American historian at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War....
  • Frederick Kagan
    Frederick Kagan

    Frederick W. Kagan is an American resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute , and a former professor of military history at the U.S....
  • Robert Kagan
    Robert Kagan

    Robert Kagan is an United States historian and foreign policy commentator and widely regarded as a leading intellectual of the neo-conservative school of foreign policy....
  • Efraim Karsh
    Efraim Karsh

    Efraim Karsh is Professor and head of Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. An historian of the Middle East, and a best-selling author, he is regarded as the most vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the conventional history of the Arab-Israeli conflict....
  • Leon Kass
    Leon Kass

    Leon Richard Kass is an United States physician, educator, and public intellectual, best known as an opponent of human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia; as a critic of unrestrained technological progress; and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005....
  • Jacob Katz
    Jacob Katz

    Jacob Katz was a Jewish historian in Israel who established the history curriculum used in Israel's High Schools. In the year 1945 Jacob Katz presented to a conference of historians his article ?Marriage and Sexual Relations at the close of the Middle Ages? which was published that year in the periodical "Zion." Katz, who lived at that time in Tel...
  • Alfred Kazin
    Alfred Kazin

    Alfred Kazin was an United States writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....
  • Alan Keyes
    Alan Keyes

    Alan Lee Keyes is an American conservative political activist, author and former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. He ran for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2008, and was a Republican Party nominee for the U.S....
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick
    Jeane Kirkpatrick

    Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was an United States Ambassadors from the United States and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign relations of the United States adviser in his United States presidential election, 1980 and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democratic Party -turned-Republican Party was nominated as the U...
  • Martin Kramer
    Martin Kramer

    Martin Seth Kramer is an United States scholar of the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Shalem Center, and Harvard University's Olin Institute....
  • Charles Krauthammer
    Charles Krauthammer

    Charles Krauthammer , is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated Op-Ed and Pundit . His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets....
  • Irving Kristol
    Irving Kristol

    Irving Kristol has been dubbed the "godfather of Neoconservatism ." As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he has played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century....
  • William Kristol
    William Kristol

    William Kristol is an United States Politics of the United States analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard, a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, and a former conservative op-ed for the New York Times....
  • Walter Laqueur
    Walter Laqueur

    Walter Zeev Laqueur is an United States historian and political commentator.He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938 Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine....
  • Christopher Lasch
    Christopher Lasch

    Christopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic....
  • F. R. Leavis
    F. R. Leavis

    Frank Raymond Leavis Order of the Companions of Honour was an influential United Kingdom literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century....
  • Michael Ledeen
    Michael Ledeen

    Michael Arthur Ledeen is an expert on U.S. foreign policy. His research areas have included state sponsors of terrorism, Iran, the Middle East, Europe , U.S.-China relations, intelligence, and Africa ....
  • Michael Levin
    Michael Levin

    Michael Levin is professor of philosophy at City University of New York, who has published works on metaphysics, epistemology, Race , homosexuality, animal rights, the philosophy of archaeology, the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science....
  • Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis

    Bernard Lewis is a British-American historian, Orientalist, and pundit . He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University....
  • Guenter Lewy
    Guenter Lewy

    Guenter Lewy is an author and historian, and a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts. His works span several topics, but he is most often associated with his book on the Vietnam War and controversial works that deal with the applicability of the genocide label to various historical contexts....
  • Seymour Martin Lipset
    Seymour Martin Lipset

    Seymour Martin Lipset was an American political sociologist. Seymour Lipset was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University....
  • John Lukacs
    John Lukacs

    John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungary-born United States historian who has written more than twenty-five books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic....
  • Dwight MacDonald
    Dwight Macdonald

    Dwight Macdonald was an American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical....
  • Heather MacDonald
  • Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer

    Norman Kingsley Mailer was an United States novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S....
  • Bernard Malamud
    Bernard Malamud

    Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great United States Jewish authors of the 20th century....
  • Thomas Mann
    Thomas Mann

    Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
  • Leo Marx
    Leo Marx

    Leo Marx is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an author known for his works in the field of American studies. Marx's work in American studies examines the relationship between technology and culture in 19th and 20th century United States....
  • Andrew C. McCarthy
    Andrew C. McCarthy

    Andrew C. McCarthy is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others....
  • Scott McConnell
    Scott McConnell

    Scott McConnell is an American journalist best known as the current editor of The American Conservative.After receiving a Ph.D in history at Columbia University, McConnell became active in politics and worked on the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter in 1976....
  • Hans J. Morgenthau
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    For the U.S. Representative from Illinois, see P. H. MoynihanDaniel Patrick ?Pat? Moynihan was an United States politician and sociologist....
  • Joshua Muravchik
    Joshua Muravchik

    Joshua Muravchik is a neoconservative scholar formerly at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. His policy positions are generally associated with the so-called Neoconservatism school of thought....
  • Charles Murray
    Charles Murray

    Charles Murray is the name of several notable people:*Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore *Charles Augustus Murray , British author diplomat...
  • Richard John Neuhaus
    Richard John Neuhaus

    Richard John Neuhaus was a prominent American churchman and writer. Born in Canada, he moved to the United States, where he had become a naturalized United States citizen....
  • Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner

    Jacob Neusner is an American academic scholar of Judaism who lives in Rhinebeck , New York, New York ....
  • Reinhold Niebuhr
    Reinhold Niebuhr

    Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an United States theology. A Protestant, he is best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy....
  • Robert Nisbet
    Robert Nisbet

    Robert Alexander Nisbet was an United States conservatism sociologist....
  • Michael Novak
    Michael Novak

    Michael Novak is an United States Roman Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than twenty-five books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism ....
  • Michael B. Oren
  • George Orwell
    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
  • John O'Sullivan
    John O'Sullivan (columnist)

    John O'Sullivan is a British Conservatism political commentator and journalist and currently the executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty....
  • Amos Oz
    Amos Oz

    Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
  • Cynthia Ozick
    Cynthia Ozick

    Cynthia Ozick , is the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson.She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A....
  • Martin Peretz
    Martin Peretz

    Martin H. Peretz, also known as Marty Peretz, , is an United States publisher. Formerly an Professor#Assistant professor at Harvard University, he purchased The New Republic in 1974 and took editorial control soon afterwards....
  • Richard Perle
    Richard Perle

    Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor and Lobbying who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant United States Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004....
  • Joan Peters
    Joan Peters

    Joan Peters is a former CBS news producer and author best known for her controversial book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, From Time Immemorial, published in 1984....
  • William Pfaff
    William Pfaff

    William Pfaff is an United States author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books....
  • Daniel Pipes
    Daniel Pipes

    Daniel Pipes is an United States writer and political commentator who focuses on the Middle East and Islam.Pipes has taught at Harvard University, University of Chicago, and Pepperdine University, served as a member of the board of the U.S....
  • Richard Pipes
    Richard Pipes

    Richard Edgar Pipes is an American historian who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the history of the Soviet Union....
  • Steven Plaut
    Steven Plaut

    Steven Plaut is an Associate Professor on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Haifa and a writer....
  • John Podhoretz
    John Podhoretz

    John Podhoretz is an U.S. conservative commentator for a variety of media sources, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter....
  • Norman Podhoretz
    Norman Podhoretz

    Norman B. Podhoretz is an United States Neoconservatism theorist and writer for Commentary ....
  • Noah Pollak
    Noah Pollak

    Noah Pollak is an United States political writer specializing in issues concerning foreign policy, Israel, and the Jewish people.Currently, Pollak is a regular contributor to the American neoconservative publication Commentary Magazine....
  • Norman Ravitch
    Norman Ravitch

    Norman Ravitch is a professor emeritus of history at University of California, Riverside. He formerly wrote occasional pieces for the Rockwell Foundation and other libertarian think-tanks....
  • Mordecai Richler
    Mordecai Richler

    Mordecai Richler, Order of Canada was a Canada author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history....
  • Paul Craig Roberts
    Paul Craig Roberts

    Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics"....
  • Peter W. Rodman
  • Henry Roth
    Henry Roth

    Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer....
  • Philip Roth
    Philip Roth

    Philip Milton Roth is an United States novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman....
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
    Jean-Paul Sartre

    Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre , commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialism philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism....
  • Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Sam Schulman
    Sam Schulman

    Samuel "Sam" Schulman was an United States businessperson from New York who was a founding owner and President of the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association and an owner of the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League....
  • Delmore Schwartz
    Delmore Schwartz

    Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer from Brooklyn....
  • Stephen Schwartz
    Stephen Schwartz (journalist)

    Stephen Schwartz is an United States of America journalist, columnist, and author. His background is on the left-wing politics, but now describes himself as a neoconservative....
  • Daniel Seligman
    Daniel Seligman

    Daniel Seligman , was an editor and columnist at Fortune magazine from 1950 to 1997. He also wrote for Forbes, Commentary , The American Mercury, Commonweal, and The New Leader....
  • Nathan Sharansky
  • Martin Sieff
  • Fred Siegel
    Fred Siegel

    Fred Siegel is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute who focuses on urban policy and politics. He also serves as a professor of history and the humanities at Cooper Union and is a contributor to numerous publications, including The New York Post , The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Commonwealth and Tikkun....
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....
  • Susan Sontag
    Susan Sontag

    Susan Sontag was an United States author, filmmaker, philosopher, literary theorist, and activism....
  • Thomas Sowell
    Thomas Sowell

    Thomas Sowell , is an United States economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective....
  • Bret Stephens
    Bret Stephens

    Bret Louis Stephens is a writer and news commentator for the Wall Street Journal. He was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post in 2002-2004....
  • Leo Strauss
    Leo Strauss

    Leo Strauss was a Germany-born Jewish-American Political philosophy who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published 15 books....
  • George Szamuely
    George Szamuely

    George Szamuely is a frequent columnist for the Taki's Top Drawer pages of the New York Press. Szamuely has also written for antiwar.com, Counterpunch , Commentary , The Observer and the Centre for Research on Globalization....
  • Philip Taft
    Philip Taft

    Philip Taft was a noted labor historian whose research focused on the labor history of the United States and the American Federation of Labor....
  • Amir Taheri
    Amir Taheri

    Amir Taheri is an Iranian-born hardline conservative journalist and author based in Europe. His writings focus on the Middle East affairs and topics related to Islamist terrorism....
  • Terry Teachout
    Terry Teachout

    Terry Teachout is a critic, biography and blog. He is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the chief culture critic of Commentary , and the author of "Sightings," a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Saturday Wall Street Journal....
  • Dorothy Thompson
    Dorothy Thompson

    Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt....
  • Nathan Thrall
    Nathan Thrall

    Nathan Thrall is an American journalist and book reviewer who writes on Middle East politics and United States foreign policy matters....
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper
  • Lionel Trilling
    Lionel Trilling

    Lionel Trilling was an American literary critic, author, and teacher, who was a member of The New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review; although he did not establish a school of literary criticism, he is one of the great U.S....
  • Robert C. Tucker
    Robert C. Tucker

    Robert C. Tucker is an United States historian.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was a prominent Sovietologist at Princeton University. He served as an attach? at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1944?1953....
  • Robert W. Tucker
    Robert W. Tucker

    Robert Whitney Tucker Jr. born in Selingsgrove, PA a writer and teacher was Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies....
  • Leopold Tyrmand
    Leopold Tyrmand

    Leopold Tyrmand was a Poland-Jewish novelist and editor. He rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1966....
  • David Twersky
    David Twersky

    Grand Rabbi David Twersky is the spiritual leader of the village of New Square in New York and of Skverer Hasidic Judaism worldwide. He is the son of Grand Rabbi Yakov Yosef Twersky , whom he succeeded in 1968....
  • Ron Unz
    Ron Unz

    Ron K. Unz, is a former businessman and political activist, best known for an unsuccessful race in 1994 for the governorship of California, and for sponsoring propositions promoting structured English language immersion education....
  • John Updike
    John Updike

    John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
  • Ben J. Wattenberg
    Ben J. Wattenberg

    Benjamin J. Wattenberg is an United States commentator and writer....
  • George Weigel
    George Weigel

    George Weigel is an American Catholic author, and political and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center....
  • Elie Wiesel
    Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night , a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps....
  • James Q. Wilson
    James Q. Wilson

    James Q. Wilson is an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration....
  • Ruth Wisse
    Ruth Wisse

    Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish literature and Professor of Comparative literature at Harvard University. She has previously taught at McGill University, Stanford University, New York University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University universities....
  • Robert S. Wistrich
    Robert S. Wistrich

    ?Robert Solomon Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European history and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism....
  • A. B. Yehoshua
    A. B. Yehoshua

    Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua....
  • Karl Zinsmeister
    Karl Zinsmeister

    Karl Zinsmeister was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush in June 2006 to serve as his chief domestic policy adviser, and Director of the White House United States Domestic Policy Council....


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