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5 unusual facts about Norman Podhoretz


John Northam

In 1950 he was made a Fellow of Clare College, where he supervised Norman Podhoretz, the American who went on to become a notable writer.

Podhoretz

Norman Podhoretz (born 1930), neoconservative writer and former editor of Commentary magazine

The God that Failed

Writers who subsequently picked up the term have included Whittaker Chambers, Clark Kerr, David Edgar, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Podhoretz.

Vietnam Syndrome

In a famous article in Commentary, “Making the World Safe for Communism,” journalist Norman Podhoretz complained,

World War III

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 only occasionally engaging in direct combat.



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