From 1970 to 1973, Norman Podhoretz, then COMMENTARY’s editor-in-chief (and now its editor-at-large), wrote a monthly column to introduce and expand on the themes and points raised in the issue’s most important articles. The column, titled “Issues,” lasted only three years, but it ranged over a huge variety of subjects and illuminated some of the most pressing cultural, political, and intellectual questions of the day. This weekend, we offer several of the best of “Issues.”
Laws, Kings, and Cures
October 1970
Liberty and the Intellectuals
November 1971
The Idea of a Common Culture
June 1972
Between Nixon and the New Politics
September 1972
Vietnam and Collective Guilt
March 1973