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Hace 6 días · In 1971, Norman Mailer (who graduated from Harvard, but fancied himself a pugilist nonetheless) lamented that women lost their respect for men when “pregnancy lost its danger” — thanks to...
Hace 6 días · In 2000, the New York Times published an excerpt from Norman Podhoretz’s book My Love Affair with America, a book that bears the delightful subtitle The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative.This excerpt contains no explicit reference to the author’s Jewish upbringing, but it’s hardly a coincidence that the robust enthusiasm for America he expresses therein is a defining feature of ...
Hace 4 días · In 1971, Norman Mailer (who graduated from Harvard, but fancied himself a pugilist nonetheless) lamented that women lost their respect for men when “pregnancy lost its danger” — thanks to declining rates of maternal mortality. Thus “insulated from the dramatic possibility of a fatal end,” he wrote, women no longer feared that a man ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · One lengthy passage, gripping in its recounting, documents 1971’s legendary New York Town Hall debate on feminism presided over by the notorious writer and carnival barker Norman Mailer, whose inflammatory “Prisoner of Sex” essay had just been published.
15 de jun. de 2024 · Norman Podhoretz wrote a piece, ‘If Orwell Were Alive Today’ that was typical of the genre. ‘Normally, to speculate on what a dead man might have said about events he never lived to see is a frivolous enterprise’, he acknowledged, ‘before gamely pressing on to insist that an octogenarian Orwell would have said that Norman ...
14 de jun. de 2024 · But I’d be remiss if I didn’t add one more intellectual antecedent: Norman Podhoretz. Joseph Epstein, in his New York Times review of Podhoretz’s 1979 memoir Breaking Ranks , writes that his subject’s “crime” is that “he has come out against the intellectual culture that spawned him.
16 de jun. de 2024 · And in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967, the American Jewish community underwent what Norman Podhoretz called a ‘complete Zionisation’. As Joshua Leifer argues in his new book, Tablets Shattered , the Jewish establishment became increasingly ‘particularist, their rhetoric blunter in its defence of Jewish self-interest’.
