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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: Norman Podhoretz: 1930-2025
Description: Norman Podhoretz died last week at the age of 95. A long-time editor of Commentary magazine was, simply put, one of the conservative intellectual giants of the last three-quarters of a century. For me, Commentary magazine was added to National Review as my Christmas list “asks” when I was in college. Since then, Commentary has never not been a part of my intellectual life. It was Podhoretz’s memoir “Breaking Ranks,” that put the intellectual puzzle together for me—and how much the intellectual battles of post-World War II America mattered. He spelled...