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- Birth nameNorman Harold Podhoretz
- Norman Podhoretz was born on January 16, 1930 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Midge Decter. He died on December 16, 2025 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseMidge Decter(1956 - May 9, 2022) (her death, 2 children)
- Children
- Editor-in-Chief of right-wing journal "Commentary" from February 1960 until May, 1995.
- Son of Galician Jewish immigrants.
- Fluent in Yiddish.
- Podhoretz attended Columbia University, where he became the protégé of Lionel Trilling and distinguished himself as one of the brightest literary minds of his generation. Originally a left-wing thinker, Podhoretz is a famous neoconservative.
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush [June 2004].
- Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
- [on Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22"] One of the bravest and most nearly successful attempts we have yet had to describe and make credible the incredible reality of American life in the middle of the 20th century.
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