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The Pod People |
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 by Michael Weiss, May 2, 2007 |
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Thank Christ my father's an attorney who'd only end a friendship over Tom Seaver, not Hannah Arendt:
[F]or John Podhoretz, the name, as even his mother admits, is “a lot of baggage.” When he worked at the conservative Washington Times, the joke goes, people thought his name was “John P. Normanson,” because the paper’s editor, Arnaud de Borchgrave, a friend of his parents’, walked around the office introducing him as John Podhoretz, Norman’s son.
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Michael is a contributing editor of Jewcy. His work has appeared in Slate, Gawker, New York, Democratiya, The New Criterion and The Weekly Standard. His blog is Snarksmith. More... |
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Anonymous
what are you talking about
Michael Weiss
John Podhoretz. Has a father. His name is Norman. He's a public intellectual. He casts a long shadow. John has tried. To escape that shadow. To mixed success.
Anonymous
Thanks Michael!
Anonymous
I'm annon 2, not the first annon. You'll have to add a feature giving us annon numbers. Wait, that's another set of comments.
In any event, it's interesting that some Jewcy readers aren't familiar with Norman Podhoretz. That says something about Jewcy as new media or its readers as a younger generation. Can you fit the Jewcy demographic and still read Commentary recived by snail mail? Thnaks, now I feel old and out of date....
Michael Weiss
I read Commentary by snail mail, and I've even written some for their blog Contentions. I am my own Jewcy demographic.
François Blumen...
...there once (not that long ago) was a Princeton prof (in the humanities, shall we say) who did not have a clue how to use the web; he got his secretary to print off all the emails he received; he would then proceed on to handwrite responses, which said secretary would type and email back. Pretty romantic, if you ask me. Also costly in secretarial time.