John Podhoretz
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Banner day for Ukraine hero Zelensky in DC
At the climax of his speech, he handed the flag to Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris, who were in their respective positions as speaker of the House and president of the Senate directly behind him. → Read More
Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms
What Tuesday night’s midterm election results suggest is that former President Donald Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history. → Read More
Lucianne Goldberg, 1935-2022
Lucianne Goldberg was—she owned the term proudly—a broad. A grand broad—big, blowsy, sexy, and up for a good time from morning till night. She was the first and the last → Read More
Trump Is In Deep, Deep, Deep, Deep Trouble
The testimony this afternoon of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, cannot be dismissed. If what she has testified to, sworn under oath, is not → Read More
A Son’s Eulogy for Midge Decter (1927-2022)
Where did she come from? That’s what we were asking ourselves, my sister and my father and I, after she left us and this world on the morning of May 9, → Read More
Drop the Goldberg name you co-opted, Whoopi — you don’t deserve it
Decades ago, when the performer Caryn Johnson decided her name wasn’t interesting enough and dubbed herself Whoopi Goldberg instead, it wasn’t because Goldberg signified “whiteness.” → Read More
Terry Teachout, 1956-2022
Terry Teachout published more pieces in COMMENTARY than any other writer in the magazine's 76-year history. He was a monthly contributor for a quarter century—first as classical music critic and → Read More
Joe Biden’s incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
President Joe Biden’s babbling speech on the COVID vaccine only serves to punish unvaccinated Americans and push unconstitutional mandates amid his Afghanistan debacle, John Podhoretz writes. → Read More
All Biden Had to Do Was...Nothing
All Joe Biden had to do was nothing. Had Joe Biden done nothing, Afghanistan would not have fallen to the Taliban today. Had he just let the status quo → Read More
On the most critical issue — vaccines — Biden has failed us
From the first moment of his presidency, Joe Biden has received rave reviews for his handling of the coronavirus response. Literally the day after he was sworn in, Dr. David Battinelli of Northwell Health swooned, “The plan put forward by President Biden and his team of experts is spot on.” → Read More
Anthony Fauci’s limitless publicity thirst is undermining the war on COVID
Every day, and it seems for hours a day, Fauci pops up on cable shows or in interviews with major journalists, and the blue-check Twitterati amplify his messages through social media. → Read More
Trump's Mob Would Have Killed Them If It Had the Chance
This is what we learned today. We learned that on January 6, Mitt Romney was coming down a hallway. In less than a minute, he would have encountered members of → Read More
Trump has debate of his life — but is it too late?
With his back against the wall, Donald Trump pulled himself together and had the debate of his life. For the most part, he was focused, contained and determined to get his message across and not just be the alpha male. → Read More
Re the Court: Are You Kidding Me?
Two of the hoariest cliches in the American-politics business are the work of a turn-of-the-20th-century Chicago newspaper columnist named Finley Peter Dunne, who wrote in the voice of an Irish → Read More
RNC 2020 aims to present a softer, kinder Donald Trump
One after the other, ordinary people and relatively modest state-level politicians hit home the themes that will make or break the Trump reelection effort. → Read More
Joe Biden benefits from low expectations
Joe Biden gave a good speech last night and delivered it beautifully. But it landed even more strongly because of the Basement Biden we’ve been seeing ever since he won the nomination during the pandemic. → Read More
Low-energy virtual Democratic Convention fails to inspire
Remember how Donald Trump brought Jeb Bush low by characterizing him as “low energy”? Few major American events in my lifetime have been as low energy as the Democratic National Convention’s first night. → Read More
Worse than the limousine liberal: ‘Prius woke-sters’ cheer chaos at personal risk
Something horrifying is happening to the American moral sense — the plain evidence of one’s own eyes in the form of wanton destruction is overlooked in favor of offering some kind of generalized support for the “cause.” → Read More
Progressives’ dreams will send New York right back to ‘70s blight
Before the riots and looting of the past week, New Yorkers were facing existential questions about their continued residence in the city going forward. → Read More
Only an intellectual could 'justify' these riots
George Orwell’s timeless admonition, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them,” has been given new life by the desperate efforts of pundits, scholars and Twitter blue-checks to defend the violence, looting, disorder and general monstrousness that have overtaken America’s cities. → Read More