http://www.truthdig.com/norman_birnbaum Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2010 2010-08-20T09:50:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/norman_podhoretz_in_black_and_white_20100820/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/norman_podhoretz_in_black_and_white_20100820/ book, bush, democracy, democrats, economy, election, government, history, house, israel, jews, law, military, neoconservatives, norman birnbaum, norman podhoretz, politics, religion, republicans, security, terrorism, the left, war, Book Review

Norman Birnbaum, the noted sociologist and thinker, analyzes two worthy new books, by Thomas L. Jeffers and Benjamin Balint, on the longtime editor of Commentary and the magazine he shaped.

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Walter Kendall Myers, a former Foreign Service officer, has been sent to prison for life for espionage on behalf of Cuba. Did he knew anything at all that could remotely be termed “secret”?

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It is puzzling that obituary notices of Irving Kristol obviously intended to be positive designate him the “Godfather” of neoconservatism. Likening this group of thinkers and writers to a gang of Mafiosi may or may not be accurate; it is certainly not flattering.

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]]> 2009-09-26T05:24:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090306_norman_birnbaum_on_susan_sontag/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090306_norman_birnbaum_on_susan_sontag/ birnbaum, book, chicago, culture, eisenhower, ethics, family, harvard, journal, marriage, memoir, paris, politics, prison, protest, review, socialism, sontag, war, Book Review

The publication of Sontag’s early diaries provides a revelatory look at the self-inventions of the late writer.

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