John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz
John Mordecai Podhoretzis an American writer. He is the editor of Commentary magazine, columnist for the New York Post, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 April 1961
CountryUnited States of America
tactics conservative republican
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
ignorant tongue conservative
All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.
simple united-states failing
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
party successful israel
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
black victim homicide
In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
cutting obamacare pro-life
Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.
new-york book years
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
kind restless newts
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
people culture feels
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
thinking scorpions eric
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
cities atmosphere conservative
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
running deputies shops
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
robots rich
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
sweet winning your-side
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?