Overview
- John Podhoretz announced that his father died Tuesday night at 95, saying he passed peacefully and without pain.
- Early reports did not list a cause, while one account cites his son telling the New York Times he died from complications of pneumonia.
- As editor from 1960 to 1995, Podhoretz reshaped Commentary into a conservative forum, publishing influential essays by figures such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick.
- A leading neoconservative voice, he pressed for a muscular U.S. foreign policy and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 from George W. Bush.
- He was a prolific writer with a dozen books and 145 Commentary articles, born in Brooklyn in 1930 and remembered as both influential and polarizing.