Commentary Magazine Gets a New Editor. I had two missions. News magazines made oceans of money. It simply meant former leftists who became "conservative" in the 1970s. The vocabulary shouldn’t be too complicated so they can get through it.” These ideas dominated the news business in the 1980s and 1990s. View All MSNBC Columnists. JOHN: If it were today, it would be breached in five seconds. JOHN: The ultimate feedback all three of us editors have gotten involves another technical term from the world of publication circulation: Churn. And I was always proved right, because the new circulation didn’t stick around and advertising never covered the costs. Commentary/Op-Ed Pages commentary@washingtontimes.com Tel: 202-636-4723 : Digital Editor Ian Bishop 202-636-4719 National News Editor Victor Morton 202-636-3211 Editor … So they’re going to stop reading you, and the liberals aren’t going to read you, and then you’ll be dead. JOHN: It has remained itself because if it weren’t itself, it would have no reason for being. It’s remained COMMENTARY. JOHN: He came to you and said, “Look. Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 under the editorship of Elliot E. Cohen(editor from 1945 to 1959), Commentary magazine developed into the leading postwar journal of Jewish affairs. NORMAN PODHORETZ: Some magazines are writer’s magazines, where what the writer puts down on paper is sacred to him, and the editor doesn’t do much except maybe change the punctuation. Explore the scintillating May 2021 issue of Commentary. I met him at the Century Club in New York and nervously handed him the manuscript because I’d published things by him before, but they had not been as heavily edited as this one. In that sense, it’s much easier now. NORMAN: Well, people wouldn’t speak to me in the elevator. Without it, it would have been impossible to maintain that combination of, what shall I say, authority, sophistication, and accessibility. Please enter your username or email address. We had all been at Time, and you just couldn’t be a writer of any reputation or any standing by being a staffer for that magazine. COMMENTARY has never had a large readership, and yet it has had this outsized impact, wildly outsized impact, as you indicate just with the job prospects, not only of Jeane and Pat, but literally dozens of COMMENTARY contributors who went and populated the administrations of Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, second Bush. I took over from Neal in January 2009. The women’s magazines made oceans of money. You made an upper-middle-class salary, which was rare in journalism. I thought he was the perfect author for this, and he wrote a wonderful piece. JOHN: The leaders could have just said, you know what, we’re sick of you, we’re sick of this right-wing stuff, we’ll fire you. Or copyedit. politics@theatlantic.com . On the March issue: American Crime Wave To the Editor: Christine Rosen’s article on rising crime makes good points about law enforcement but misses one important thing … NORMAN: They said from the beginning, we don’t want a house organ, we want a distinguished magazine, and they all agreed, the founders, that the only way they were going to get a distinguished magazine was to allow complete freedom. And many of those people, including the ones who did not like the magazine, regarded it as sort of the jewel in the crown. China’s Creative Challenge—and the Threat to America, Crime Against Asians Isn’t Due to White Supremacy, Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Not About Infrastructure, When They Say ‘Don’t Panic,’ Maybe You Should Panic, America’s Racial Self-Flagellation at the UN Only Helps Rogue States. Commentary is America's premier monthly magazine of opinion: General, yet Jewish. So I have a different kind of editorial challenge in this regard, in part because compared to you and Neal Kozodoy, I’m far less literate when it comes to Judaism and Jewish history. There’s another story, again about a German-Jewish intellectual, Walter Laqueur, who may have contributed more pieces to COMMENTARY than anybody else ever. JOHN: But that goes to what I was saying about the focus groups, which is that, in the end, an editor tells people what he thinks they should know, and then it’s up to them whether they want to listen or say, “Ah, get the hell out of here.” But any strong, good editor is saying, “This is what you should be reading right now.”. Leavis and C.P. HH: We now go to Commentary Magazine’s John Podhoretz. by The Editors. It’s not popularization. Some editors would say, “Well, you know, that’s really interesting. From the Harper’s audience, there was a huge controversy. Since 2015, he has been the associate editor of Commentary magazine. JOHN: Here’s something funny. Right? That’s why heavy editing was necessary. And finally when he finished, he had made not a single change, not one, not even a “the.” He understood exactly why I had done what I had done.
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