I owe the author, Norman Podhoretz, a debt of gratitude. It was his clear thinking and writing in Commentary Magazine over twenty years ago that convinced me to become a conservative.
He and his wife Midge Dector wrote essays on Vietnam, communism and the Soviet threat, and on cultural issues. They both had a lucid, easy-to-read style which neophytes like me found easy to comprehend.
Kudos to Norman Podhoretz. I read
Commentary for years due to his guidance towards the conservative direction. By all rights
Commentary should have been a liberal publication since it is published by AJC (am I correct?)
But Podheretz made it into a surprisingly conservative magazine.