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*Commentary*
	Cover of November 2021 issue
Editor	John Podhoretz
Frequency	11 issues / year (monthly, but with a combined July–August issue)
Circulation	26,000 (2017)
First issue	1945; 79 years ago
Company	Commentary Inc.
Country	United States
Based in	New York City, New York, U.S.
Language	English
Website	commentary.org
ISSN	0010-2601
OCLC	488561243

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Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, Israel and politics, as well as social and cultural issues. Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 under Elliot E. Cohen, editor from 1945 to 1959, Commentary magazine developed into the leading post-World War II journal of Jewish affairs. The periodical strove to construct a new American Jewish identity while processing the events of the Holocaust, the formation of the State of Israel, and the Cold War. Norman Podhoretz edited the magazine from 1960 to 1995.

Besides its coverage of cultural issues, Commentary provided a voice for the anti-Stalinist left. As Podhoretz shifted from his original ideological beliefs as a liberal Democrat to neoconservatism in the 1970s and 1980s, he moved the magazine with him to the right and toward the Republican Party.^[2]

History

Founding

Commentary was the successor to the Contemporary Jewish Record, which was published by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and ran from 1938 to 1945,^[3] when its editor, AJC executive secretary Morris Waldman, retired.^[4]^[5]

20th century

In 1944, with the Record's editor retiring, the AJC consulted with New York City intellectuals including Daniel Bell and Lionel Trilling, who recommended that AJC hire Elliot Cohen, who had been the editor of a Jewish cultural magazine and was then a fundraiser, to start a new journal. Cohen designed Commentary to reconnect assimilated Jews and Jewish intellectuals with the broader, more traditional, and very liberal Jewish community.^{[citation needed]}

At the same time, the magazine was designed to bring ideas of the young Jewish New York intellectuals to a wider audience. It demonstrated that Jewish intellectuals, and by extension all American Jews, had turned away from their past political radicalism to embrace mainstream U.S. culture and values. Cohen stated his grand design in the first issue:^[6]

With Europe devastated, there falls upon us here in the United States a far greater share of the responsibility for carrying forward, in a creative way, our common Jewish cultural and spiritual heritage...to harmonize heritage and country into a true sense of at-home-ness.

Although many or even most of the editors and writers had been socialists, Trotskyites, or Stalinists in the past, that was no longer tolerated. Commentary articles were anti-Communist and also anti-McCarthyite; it identified and attacked any perceived weakness among liberals on Cold War issues, backing President Harry Truman's policies such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. The "soft-on-Communism" position of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and Henry A. Wallace came under steady attack.^{[citation needed]} Liberals who hated Joseph McCarthy were annoyed when Irving Kristol wrote at the height of the controversy that "there is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: he, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."^[7]

In the late 1950s, the magazine quality sagged, as Cohen suffered from mental illness and committed suicide.

A protégé of Lionel Trilling, Norman Podhoretz took over in 1960, running the magazine with an iron hand until his retirement in 1995.^[8]

Podhoretz said, Commentary was founded to lead the Jewish intellectuals "out of the desert of alienation...and into the promised land of democratic, pluralistic, and prosperous America".^[6] Cohen brought on board strong editors who themselves wrote important essays, including Irving Kristol; art critic Clement Greenberg; film and cultural critic Robert Warshow; and sociologist Nathan Glazer. Commentary published Hannah Arendt, Daniel Bell, Sidney Hook, and Irving Howe.^[9]

The emergence of the New Left, which was bitterly hostile to Johnson, to capitalism and to universities, angered Podhoretz for what he perceived as its shallowness and hostility to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Articles attacked the New Left on questions ranging from crime, the nature of art, drugs, poverty, to the new egalitarianism; Commentary said that the New Left was a dangerous anti-American, anti-liberal, and anti-Semitic force. Daniel Patrick Moynihan used Commentary to attack the Watts riots and liberals who defended it as a just revolution.^[10]

21st century

In 2007, the magazine ended its affiliation with AJC when Commentary, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit enterprise, took over as publisher.^[11]

In 2011, the journal donated its archives from 1945 to 1995 to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. These included letters and essay revisions.^[12]^[13]

Popular culture

Films

Commentary has been referred to three Woody Allen films:

In 1971, in Bananas, as an old lady is threatened on a subway car, Allen hides his face by holding up an issue of Commentary in an image now featured at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn Heights.

In 1977, in Annie Hall, Allen, as character Alvy Singer, makes a pun by saying that he heard that Dissent and Commentary had merged to form "Dysentery."

In 1989, in Crimes and Misdemeanors, an issue of Commentary lies on a character's bedside table.

Television

Between 1989 and 1992, in the ABC sitcom Anything but Love, stand-up comedian Richard Lewis was often shown holding or reading a copy of Commentary.

Reception and influence

American-Israeli journalist Benjamin Balint and former editor at Commentary described the magazine as the "contentious magazine that transformed the Jewish left into the neoconservative right".^[14]^[15] Historian and literary critic Richard Pells said that "no other journal of the past half century has been so consistently influential, or so central to the major debates that have transformed the political and intellectual life of the United States."^[16]

Notes

^ Frank, T.A. (January 25, 2018). "Why conservative magazines are more important than ever". Washington Post. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
^ Abrams, Nathan (2009). "Introduction". Norman Podhoretz and Commentary magazine: the rise and fall of the neocons. Continuum.
^ Abraham Moses Klein (2011). The Letters: The Letters. University of Toronto Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-4426-4107-5.
^ "Guide to the Records of the American Jewish Committee Executive Offices (EXO-29), Morris Waldman (1879-1963). Files 1905-1963, RG 347.1.29". yivoarchives.org. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
^ "EBSCO Locate". drew.locate.ebsco.com. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Ehrman, John (June 1, 1999) "Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism", American Jewish History
^ Pells, Richard H. (1989). The liberal mind in a conservative age: American intellectuals in the 1940s. Wesleyan University Press. p. 296.
^ Thomas L. Jeffers, Norman Podhoretz: A Biography (2010) pp. 20, 62, 129, 145
^ Yair Rosenberg (June 6, 2014). "Commentary Opens its Archives". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
^ Sam Tanenhaus (September 1, 2009). The Death of Conservatism. Random House Publishing Group. p. 72. ISBN 9781588369482. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
^ "Commentary, American Jewish Committee Separate". The New York Sun.
^ Cohen, Patricia (September 19, 2011). "Commentary Magazine Archive Given to University of Texas". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
^ See announcement Archived August 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ Balint, Benjamin (2010). Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586487492.
^ Patricia Cohen (June 11, 2010). "Commentary Is All About Commentary These Days". The New York Times. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
^ Quoted from Murray Friedman (ed.): Commentary in American Life, Philadelphia 2005, p.1, Temple University Press.

References

Podhoretz, Norman. Breaking Ranks (1979), memoir
Nathan Glazer, Thomas L. Jeffers, Richard Gid Powers, Fred Siegel, Terry Teachout, Ruth R. Wisse et al. in Commentary in American Life, ed. Murray Friedman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005

Bibliography

Balint, Benjamin. Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right (PublicAffairs; 2010) 290 pages
Ehrman, John. "Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism", American Jewish History 87.2&3 (1999) 159–181. online in Project MUSE, scholarly article by conservative historian
Franczak, Michael. "Losing the Battle, Winning the War: Neoconservatives versus the New International Economic Order, 1974–82," Diplomatic History, Volume 43, Issue 5, November 2019, Pages 867–889, Losing the Battle, Winning the War: Neoconservatives versus the New International Economic Order, 1974–82.
Jeffers, Thomas L. Norman Podhoretz: A Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

External links

[1] Frank, T.A. (January 25, 2018). "Why conservative magazines are more important than ever". Washington Post. Retrieved September 5, 2020.

[2] Abrams, Nathan (2009). "Introduction". Norman Podhoretz and Commentary magazine: the rise and fall of the neocons. Continuum.

[3] Abraham Moses Klein (2011). The Letters: The Letters. University of Toronto Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-4426-4107-5.

[4] "Guide to the Records of the American Jewish Committee Executive Offices (EXO-29), Morris Waldman (1879-1963). Files 1905-1963, RG 347.1.29". yivoarchives.org. Retrieved July 31, 2024.

[5] "EBSCO Locate". drew.locate.ebsco.com. Retrieved July 31, 2024.

[Problem-6] Ehrman, John (June 1, 1999) "Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism", American Jewish History

[7] Pells, Richard H. (1989). The liberal mind in a conservative age: American intellectuals in the 1940s. Wesleyan University Press. p. 296.

[8] Thomas L. Jeffers, Norman Podhoretz: A Biography (2010) pp. 20, 62, 129, 145

[9] Yair Rosenberg (June 6, 2014). "Commentary Opens its Archives". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved February 15, 2019.

[Tanenhaus2009-10] Sam Tanenhaus (September 1, 2009). The Death of Conservatism. Random House Publishing Group. p. 72. ISBN 9781588369482. Retrieved October 18, 2013.

[11] "Commentary, American Jewish Committee Separate". The New York Sun.

[12] Cohen, Patricia (September 19, 2011). "Commentary Magazine Archive Given to University of Texas". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.

[13] See announcement Archived August 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[14] Balint, Benjamin (2010). Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586487492.

[15] Patricia Cohen (June 11, 2010). "Commentary Is All About Commentary These Days". The New York Times. Retrieved February 14, 2019.

[16] Quoted from Murray Friedman (ed.): Commentary in American Life, Philadelphia 2005, p.1, Temple University Press.

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-'''''Commentary''''' is a monthly American magazine on religion, [[Judaism]], and politics, as well as social and cultural issues. Founded by the [[American Jewish Committee]] in 1945 under [[Elliot E. Cohen]], editor from 1945 to 1959, ''Commentary'' magazine developed into the leading post-[[World War II]] journal of [[Jews|Jewish]] affairs. The periodical strove to construct a new American Jewish identity while processing the events of the [[Holocaust]], the formation of the State of [[Israel]], and the [[Cold War]]. [[Norman Podhoretz]] edited the magazine from 1960 to 1995.
+'''''Commentary''''' is a monthly American magazine on religion, [[Judaism]], [[Israel]] and politics, as well as social and cultural issues. Founded by the [[American Jewish Committee]] in 1945 under [[Elliot E. Cohen]], editor from 1945 to 1959, ''Commentary'' magazine developed into the leading post-[[World War II]] journal of [[Jews|Jewish]] affairs. The periodical strove to construct a new American Jewish identity while processing the events of the [[Holocaust]], the formation of the State of [[Israel]], and the [[Cold War]]. [[Norman Podhoretz]] edited the magazine from 1960 to 1995.
 Besides its coverage of cultural issues, ''Commentary'' provided a voice for the [[anti-Stalinist left]]. As Podhoretz shifted from his original ideological beliefs as a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to [[neoconservatism]] in the 1970s and 1980s, he moved the magazine with him to the right and toward the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Nathan|last=Abrams|date=2009|title=Norman Podhoretz and Commentary magazine: the rise and fall of the neocons|chapter=Introduction|publisher=Continuum}}</ref>
 ==History==
+{{Conservatism US}}
 ===Founding===
-''Commentary'' was the successor to the ''Contemporary Jewish Record'', which was published by the [[American Jewish Committee]] (AJC) and ran from 1938 to 1945.<ref>{{cite book|author=Abraham Moses Klein|title=The Letters: The Letters |date=2011|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-4107-5|page=356|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Sr6mmemFaUC&q=%22Contemporary+Jewish+Record%22&pg=PA356|language=en}}</ref>
+''Commentary'' was the successor to the ''Contemporary Jewish Record'', which was published by the [[American Jewish Committee]] (AJC) and ran from 1938 to 1945,<ref>{{cite book|author=Abraham Moses Klein|title=The Letters: The Letters |date=2011|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-4107-5|page=356|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Sr6mmemFaUC&q=%22Contemporary+Jewish+Record%22&pg=PA356|language=en}}</ref> when its editor, AJC executive secretary [[Morris D. Waldman|Morris Waldman]], retired.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guide to the Records of the American Jewish Committee Executive Offices (EXO-29), Morris Waldman (1879-1963). Files 1905-1963, RG 347.1.29 |url=http://yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=34394 |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=yivoarchives.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=EBSCO Locate |url=https://drew.locate.ebsco.com/instances/1f55f4c3-5eb3-48a4-8d55-8b5ac0b6cfd2?option=author&query=Waldman,%20Morris%20D.%20(Morris%20David),%201879-1963 |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=drew.locate.ebsco.com}}</ref>
-===Elliot Cohen===
+===20th century===
-When the ''Record''{{'}}s editor{{who|date=August 2020}} died in 1944, the AJC consulted with New York City intellectuals including [[Daniel Bell]] and [[Lionel Trilling]], who recommended that AJC hire [[Elliot E. Cohen|Elliot Cohen]], who had been the editor of a Jewish cultural magazine and was then a fundraiser, to start a new journal. Cohen designed ''Commentary'' to reconnect assimilated Jews and Jewish intellectuals with the broader, more traditional, and very liberal Jewish community.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
+In 1944, with the ''Record''{{'}}s editor retiring, the AJC consulted with New York City intellectuals including [[Daniel Bell]] and [[Lionel Trilling]], who recommended that AJC hire [[Elliot E. Cohen|Elliot Cohen]], who had been the editor of a Jewish cultural magazine and was then a fundraiser, to start a new journal. Cohen designed ''Commentary'' to reconnect assimilated Jews and Jewish intellectuals with the broader, more traditional, and very liberal Jewish community.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
 At the same time, the magazine was designed to bring ideas of the young Jewish [[The New York Intellectuals|New York intellectuals]] to a wider audience. It demonstrated that Jewish intellectuals, and by extension all American Jews, had turned away from their past political radicalism to embrace mainstream U.S. culture and values. Cohen stated his grand design in the first issue:<ref name=Problem>Ehrman, John (June 1, 1999) [https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-63090926 "Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism"], ''American Jewish History''</ref>
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 Although many or even most of the editors and writers had been [[Socialism|socialists]], [[Trotskyism|Trotskyites]], or [[Stalinism|Stalinists]] in the past, that was no longer tolerated. ''Commentary'' articles were anti-[[Communism|Communist]] and also anti-[[McCarthyism|McCarthyite]]; it identified and attacked any perceived weakness among liberals on [[Cold War]] issues, backing President [[Harry Truman]]'s policies such as the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[Marshall Plan]], and [[NATO]]. The "soft-on-Communism" position of the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) and [[Henry A. Wallace]] came under steady attack.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} Liberals who hated [[Joseph McCarthy]] were annoyed when Irving Kristol wrote at the height of the controversy that "there is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: he, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard H.|last=Pells|date=1989|title=The liberal mind in a conservative age: American intellectuals in the 1940s|page=296|publisher=Wesleyan University Press}}</ref>
-In the late 1950s, the magazine sagged, as Cohen suffered from [[mental disorder|mental illness]] and committed [[suicide]].
+In the late 1950s, the magazine quality sagged, as Cohen suffered from [[mental disorder|mental illness]] and committed [[suicide]].
-===Norman Podhoretz===
 A protégé of [[Lionel Trilling]], [[Norman Podhoretz]] took over in 1960, running the magazine with an iron hand until his retirement in 1995.<ref>Thomas L. Jeffers, ''Norman Podhoretz: A Biography'' (2010) pp. 20, 62, 129, 145</ref>
-As Podhoretz put it, ''Commentary'' was to lead the Jewish intellectuals "out of the desert of alienation...and into the promised land of democratic, pluralistic, and prosperous America".<ref name=Problem/> Cohen brought on board strong editors who themselves wrote important essays, including [[Irving Kristol]]; art critic [[Clement Greenberg]]; film and cultural critic [[Robert Warshow]]; and sociologist [[Nathan Glazer]]. ''Commentary'' published such rising stars as [[Hannah Arendt]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Sidney Hook]], and [[Irving Howe]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Yair Rosenberg|title=Commentary Opens its Archives |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/175139/commentary-opens-its-archives|access-date=15 February 2019|work=Tablet Magazine|date=6 June 2014}}</ref>
+Podhoretz said, ''Commentary'' was founded to lead the Jewish intellectuals "out of the desert of alienation...and into the promised land of democratic, pluralistic, and prosperous America".<ref name=Problem/> Cohen brought on board strong editors who themselves wrote important essays, including [[Irving Kristol]]; art critic [[Clement Greenberg]]; film and cultural critic [[Robert Warshow]]; and sociologist [[Nathan Glazer]]. ''Commentary'' published [[Hannah Arendt]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Sidney Hook]], and [[Irving Howe]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Yair Rosenberg|title=Commentary Opens its Archives |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/175139/commentary-opens-its-archives|access-date=15 February 2019|work=Tablet Magazine|date=6 June 2014}}</ref>
 The emergence of the [[New Left]], which was bitterly hostile to Johnson, to [[capitalism]] and to universities, angered Podhoretz for what he perceived as its shallowness and hostility to [[Israel]] in the 1967 [[Six-Day War]]. Articles attacked the New Left on questions ranging from crime, the nature of art, drugs, poverty, to the new egalitarianism; ''Commentary'' said that the New Left was a dangerous anti-American, anti-liberal, and anti-Semitic force. [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] used ''Commentary'' to attack the [[Watts riots]] and liberals who defended it as a just revolution.<ref name="Tanenhaus2009">{{cite book|author=Sam Tanenhaus|title=The Death of Conservatism|url=https://archive.org/details/deathofconservat00tane|url-access=registration|access-date=October 18, 2013|date=September 1, 2009|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=9781588369482|page=[https://archive.org/details/deathofconservat00tane/page/72 72]}}</ref>
-===Recent years===
+===21st century===
+In 2007, the magazine ended its affiliation with AJC when Commentary, Inc., an independent [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit enterprise, took over as publisher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/commentary-american-jewish-committee-separate/45574/|title=Commentary, American Jewish Committee Separate|work=The New York Sun}}</ref>
-[[Neal Kozodoy]], who was at ''Commentary'' since 1966, succeeded Podhoretz as editor in 1995 and served in the capacity until January 2009, when he was appointed editor-at-large of the magazine. He was replaced as editor by [[John Podhoretz]], son of Norman Podhoretz.
-The magazine ended its affiliation with AJC in 2007, when Commentary, Inc., an independent [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit enterprise, took over as publisher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/commentary-american-jewish-committee-separate/45574/|title=Commentary, American Jewish Committee Separate|work=The New York Sun}}</ref>
 In 2011, the journal donated its archives from 1945 to 1995 to the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. These included letters and essay revisions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Patricia |title=Commentary Magazine Archive Given to University of Texas |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/commentary-magazine-archive-going-to-university-of-texas/ |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927004459/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/commentary-magazine-archive-going-to-university-of-texas/ |archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>See [http://hnn.us/roundup/41.html#141959 announcement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823134804/http://hnn.us/roundup/41.html#141959|date=August 23, 2013 }}</ref>
-''Commentary'' prints letters to the editor that comment on various articles three issues earlier. The more critical and lengthy letters tend to be printed first and the more praiseful letters last. The author of the article being discussed almost always replies in a follow-up to his critics. Each issue has several reviews of books on varying topics. ''Commentary'' usually assigns a review to books written by notable contributors to the magazine.
 ==Popular culture==
+===Films===
-''Commentary'' has been referred to in several [[Woody Allen]] films. In ''[[Annie Hall]]'' (1977), Allen (as character Alvy Singer) makes a pun by saying that he heard that ''[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent]]'' and ''Commentary'' had merged to form "''[[Dysentery]].''" In ''[[Bananas (film)|Bananas]]'' (1971), as an old lady is threatened on a subway car, Allen hides his face by holding up an issue of ''Commentary.'' This image is featured at the [[New York Transit Museum]] in [[Brooklyn Heights]]. In ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]'', an issue of ''Commentary'' lies on a character's bedside table.
+''Commentary'' has been referred to three [[Woody Allen]] films:
+*In 1971, in ''[[Bananas (film)|Bananas]]'', as an old lady is threatened on a subway car, Allen hides his face by holding up an issue of ''Commentary'' in an image now featured at the [[New York Transit Museum]] in [[Brooklyn Heights]].
+*In 1977, in ''[[Annie Hall]]'', Allen, as character Alvy Singer, makes a pun by saying that he heard that ''[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent]]'' and ''Commentary'' had merged to form "''[[Dysentery]].''"
+*In 1989, in ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]'', an issue of ''Commentary'' lies on a character's bedside table.
+===Television===
-In his sitcom ''[[Anything but Love]]'', stand-up comedian [[Richard Lewis (comedian)|Richard Lewis]] was often shown holding or reading a copy of ''Commentary''.
+Between 1989 and 1992, in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] sitcom ''[[Anything but Love]]'', stand-up comedian [[Richard Lewis (comedian)|Richard Lewis]] was often shown holding or reading a copy of ''Commentary''.
 ==Reception and influence==
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 == Further reading ==
-* [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/013/026hcbse.asp?pg=1 ''Weekly Standard'' article on ''Commentary'']
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930221034/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/013/026hcbse.asp?pg=1 ''Weekly Standard'' article on ''Commentary'']
 * [http://www.nysun.com/article/14114 ''The New York Sun'' article on who attends the annual ''Commentary''-hosted gathering]
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061225081010/http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/journal/index05.html More bio bits on Cohen and ''Commentary'' history]
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 ==External links==
-* {{official website|http://www.commentarymagazine.com/}}
+* {{official website|http://www.commentary.org/}}
-* [http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00672&kw=commentary "Commentary Magazine: An Inventory of Its Records at the Harry Ransom Center"]
+* [http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00672&kw=commentary "Commentary Magazine: An Inventory of Its Records"] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]]
 {{American Jewish Committee}}
+{{New York Intellectuals}}
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+{{Authority control}}
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v t e American Jewish Committee
Presidents	Mayer Sulzberger (1906–1912) Louis B. Marshall (1912–1929) Cyrus Adler (1929–1940) Sol M. Stroock (1941) Maurice Wertheim (1941–1943) Joseph M. Proskauer (1943–1949) Jacob Blaustein (1949–1954) Herbert B. Ehrmann (1959–1961) Morris B. Abram (1964–1968) Arthur J. Goldberg (1968–1969) Philip E. Hoffman (1969–1973) Elmer L. Winter (1973–1977) Maynard I. Wishner (1980–1983) Alfred H. Moses (1991–1994) Harold Tanner (2001–2004) Michael L. Tichnor (2022–)
CEOs	David Harris (1990–2022) Ted Deutch (2022–present)
Other key people	Elliot E. Cohen Felice D. Gaer Jerry Goodman Max Horkheimer Avital Leibovich Nathan Perlmutter Norman Podhoretz A. James Rudin Jacob Schiff Harry Schneiderman Kenneth S. Stern Marc H. Tanenbaum
Institutions	Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council Project Interchange Transatlantic Institute
Publications	American Jewish Year Book (1908–2008) The Authoritarian Personality (1950) Commentary (1945–2007) Present Tense (1973–1990) "Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism" (2006)

v t e New York Intellectuals
Associated people	Daniel Bell Elliot E. Cohen Midge Decter Paul Goodman Irving Howe Alfred Kazin Irving Kristol Mary McCarthy Dwight Macdonald William Phillips Philip Rahv Harold Rosenberg Isaac Rosenfeld Delmore Schwartz Diana Trilling Lionel Trilling Robert Warshow
Major publications	Partisan Review (1934–2003) Commentary (1945–) The Oasis (1949) The Liberal Imagination (1950) Encounter (1953–1991) Dissent (1954–) The Public Interest (1965–2005)
Works about	The New York Intellectuals (1987 book)
Related	Anti-Stalinist left Neoconservatism

v t e Neoconservatism
General	American exceptionalism Democratization Globalization Humanitarian intervention Interventionism Liberal internationalism Bush Doctrine Axis of evil Pax Americana Constitutional Federalism
Figures	William Kristol Robert Kagan Frederick Kagan Irving Kristol Paul Wolfowitz Richard Perle Charles Krauthammer David Frum Elliott Abrams Norman Podhoretz David Wurmser Douglas Feith Paul Bremer Peter Berkowitz Douglas Murray David Aaronovitch Anne Applebaum Oliver Kamm Max Boot Eliot A. Cohen Jeane Kirkpatrick Michael Novak Jonah Goldberg Joshua Muravchik Jennifer Rubin Irwin Stelzer Bret Stephens Zalmay Khalilzad Scooter Libby Yuval Levin Michael Ledeen James Kirchick Michael Gerson Dan Senor Eli Lake Reuel Marc Gerecht James Woolsey Clifford May Larry Diamond
Major influences	Leo Strauss Bernard Lewis Henry M. Jackson James Burnham John Courtney Murray
Organisations	Project for the New American Century National Endowment for Democracy Foundation for Defense of Democracies Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs Henry Jackson Society Emergency Committee for Israel American Enterprise Institute Foreign Policy Initiative NGO Monitor
Publications	Commentary The Weekly Standard The Public Interest National Affairs Encounter Harry's Place First Things Crisis
Related articles	Timeline of modern American conservatism Neoconservatism and paleoconservatism British neoconservatism Clash of Civilizations Idealism in international relations Liberal hawk Pro-war Left Anti-Stalinist left (New York Intellectuals and Trotskyism) Republican in Name Only (pejorative) Cuckservative (pejorative) Never Trump movement Euston Manifesto