PNAC member and the chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee ( DPBAC ), Neoconservative Richard Perle, later expressed regret over the Iraq invasion and ultimately put the blame for the invasion on President George W. Bush ; while other renowned neoconservative ideologists like Joshua Muravchik and Norman Podhoretz claim that neoconservatives must take intellectual leadership and that traditional conservatives lack the insight on how to solve terrorism.

* Norman Podhoretz, Editor, Commentary magazine

Another source was Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995.

" Norman's Conquest: A Commentary on the Podhoretz Legacy ", Policy Review, Fall 1995, Number 74.

Their first idea was to make Norman Podhoretz editor, but he chose to stay at Commentary magazine.

Sailer also responded to John Podhoretz in " Podhoretz, Junior vs. Steve Sailer ", by quoting from a 1963 Commentary essay by Podhoretz's father, Norman, " My Negro Problem — and Ours ", in which Norman Podhoretz made statements on black violence in character with Sailer's.

Norman B. Podhoretz (; born January 16, 1930 ) is an American neoconservative pundit and writer for Commentary magazine.

Podhoretz served as Commentary magazine's Editor-in-Chief from 1960 ( when he replaced Elliot E. Cohen ) until his retirement in 1995.

* Norman Podhoretz ( Retired Editor-in-Chief ( 1960 – 1995 ) of Commentary )

John Podhoretz (; born April 18, 1961 ) is an American neoconservative columnist for the New York Post, the editor of Commentary magazine, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter.

On January 1, 2009, John Podhoretz became editor of Commentary, succeeding Neal Kozodoy, joining his father, Commentarys former Editor-in-Chief and current Editor-at-Large.

Podhoretz joined the Commentary staff in November, 2007 in an interim role as editorial director.

Even Commentary, the Jewish journal which had once been " considered the venue of self-hating Jews with questionable commitments to the Zionist project ", came under the editorship of Norman Podhoretz to staunchly support Israel.

Norman Podhoretz has suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War III because it was fought, although by proxy, on a global scale, with the main combatants, the United States and later NATO, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries providing political, military and economic support while not engaging in direct combat.

Podhoretz asserted that there was a link between the Beats and criminal delinquents.

As journalist and writer of neoconservative ideology Jacob Heilbrunn states: “ neo-conservatism was turned into an actual movement by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz.

By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, originally a mainstream liberal Democrat.

The emergence of the New Left -- which was bitterly hostile to Johnson, to capitalism and to universities — angered Podhoretz by its perceived shallowness and, especially, by its hostility to Israel in the 1967 war.

By 1982 Podhoretz was calling himself a neoconservative, in a New York Times Magazine article titled " The Neoconservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy ".

Norman Podhoretz called the magazine " indispensable ", and George Will said it was " currently the nation's most interesting and most important political journal.

She also studied at Cambridge University as a Fulbright Scholar and was friends there with Norman Podhoretz, who also went on to a distinguished career in journalism.

The son of Julius and Helen ( Woliner ) Podhoretz, Jewish immigrants from the Central European region of Galicia, Podhoretz was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

From 1981 to 1987, Podhoretz was an adviser to the U. S. Information Agency.

Podhoretz was a consultant for the popular television series The West Wing, including the controversial episode " Gaza " in season five, first broadcast May 12, 2004. on, D. C.

Podhoretz has contributed to a number of conservative publications, including National Review and the Weekly Standard, where he is a movie critic and was the magazine's deputy editor.

Podhoretz was a contributor to The Corner, a group blog run by National Review.

Podhoretz was a steadfast supporter of U. S. president George W. Bush, and his 2004 book Bush Country called Bush " the first great leader of the 21st century ".

" In a July 25, 2006 column for the New York Post that discussed the Israel-Lebanon conflict, Podhoretz wrote: " What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn't kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything?

On March 30, 2006, Podhoretz was criticized by various bloggers for posting the following comment on National Review Online approximately three hours after hostage Jill Carroll's release from her captors: " It's wonderful that she's free, but after watching someone who was a hostage for three months say on television she was well-treated because she wasn't beaten or killed — while being dressed in the garb of a modest Muslim woman rather than the non-Muslim woman she actually is — I expect there will be some Stockholm Syndrome talk in the coming days.

" Podhoretz went on to ridicule Derbyshire's claim that he was touching a " third rail " by raising a subject nobody else wanted to discuss.

Podhoretz often writes about popular culture, and was called the " resident pop culture expert " at National Review Online by Jonah Goldberg.

According to conservative pundit John Podhoretz, Bush was instrumental in helping to revert Senate control back to the Republicans with a two-seat majority, defying the conventional wisdom that the party in power will lose seats mid-term.

Podhoretz received Bachelor's Degrees from both Columbia University — where he studied under Lionel Trilling — and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

A veritable who ’ s who of conservatives — Tony Blankley, Frank J. Gaffney Jr., Larry Kudlow, John Podhoretz and Tony Snow — has churned out copy for its pages.

Podhoretz is just out of touch with twentieth-century literature, he's writing for the eighteenth-century mind.

Sobran was fired from National Review in 1993 for a series of columns Buckley considered " contextually anti-Semitic "; Podhoretz wrote that " Joe Sobran's columns ... anti-Semitic in themselves, and not merely ' contextually.

John Podhoretz wrote in the New York Post, “ Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower.

In November 2007 comments on Commentary's blog " Contentions ", Podhoretz attacked his former colleague at National Review Online, Mark Krikorian, for what Podhoretz called a " vision of a walled-off America primarily under threat from border-crossing immigrants.

The political group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth utilized some of Lewy's work in their 2004 publication Unfit for Command, and Norman Podhoretz has often cited America in Vietnam and written extensively in its defense.

Historian John Rodden stated: " John Podhoretz did claim that if Orwell were alive today, he ’ d be standing with the neo-conservatives and against the Left.

Norman Podhoretz, a student at Columbia with Kerouac and Ginsberg, later became a critic of the Beats.

" John Podhoretz described it as " compulsively readable " and a " commanding amalgam of history, sociology and polemic.

After the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in 1994, Kristol established, along with conservative John Podhoretz, the conservative newsmagazine The Weekly Standard.

A protégé of Lionel Trilling, Norman Podhoretz ( b. 1930 ) took over in 1960, running the magazine with an iron hand until his retirement in 1995.

Podhoretz proved a brilliant, pugnacious, and combative editor.

The elder Podhoretz, who served as editor-in-chief until 1995, is currently the magazine's editor-at-large.

* Podhoretz, Norman.

* Jeffers, Thomas L. Norman Podhoretz: A Biography ( 2010 )

The Norman Podhoretz Reader.

* Response to Norman Podhoretz, by Patrick J. Buchanan, letter to The Wall Street Journal dated November 5, 1999.