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Norman Podhoretz Leaves a Legacy of Political Principle

Norman Podhoretz Leaves a Legacy of Political Principle

Wednesday, January 7, 2026
 “If I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.”  So wrote editor and essayist Norman Podhoretz in the early pages of a 1999 book titled (unsurprisingly) Ex-Friends. Podhoretz, who died last month at age 95, was until his mid-30s part of New York’s left-of-center intellectual community. He broke with it once the Read more... The post Norman Podhoretz Leaves a Legacy of Political Principle appeared first on Christianity Today.