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...women." That's an exaggeration, but Trek does seem to be returning to the gender roles of the original series, in which Kirk was a spectacular cad. While the new captain, Jonathan Archer, doesn't canoodle much, he's like Kirk in another way. In 2000 conservative writer John Podhoretz noted in the Weekly Standard that while the original series "promoted an idealistic vision of the U.S. as an exporter of democracy," fluffy '90s Treks were "consumed by ... multiculturalism and pacifism." Enterprise surely isn't. Archer unflinchingly charges into alien affairs. His chief foe is even called the Suliban, which...
...critics—a depletion she has observed from a high and uncompromised vantage point. Since the early sixties she has been a major figure among the New York intelligentsia (“the Dark Lady of American letters,’’ said Norman Podhoretz), and she has with remarkable energy written novels, screenplays, drama and essays, the last two decades of which are collected here. In none of these endeavors has her tone faltered from the serious, committed voice of her early essays. In an era when other critics see fit to cut loose and scribble...
...Walt Whitman is one of the favorite writers of Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary magazine, who has written a new book called "My Love Affair With America." Podhoretz' subtitle is: "The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative." I admire Podhoretz immensely for the clarity, decency, and, shall we say, ruthlessness of his thought, but "cheerful" is not the first word he brings to my mind. A few years ago at a dinner in a highly WASP old club in New York, I watched Podhoretz sink his teeth (figuratively speaking) into a supercilious liberal's calf...
...Love Affair With America," however, the tone is nostalgic, occasionally tender and only intermittently combative. It's a lovely book, and sometimes funny. Podhoretz, growing up poor in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, spoke with such a fierce Brooklyn accent that after he told a teacher "I goink op de stez" ("I'm going up the stairs"), he was placed in a remedial English class that left him speaking English of accentless, place-neutral gentility. He credits this development with much of his later success (Columbia University, Oxford, his long career among the New York intellectuals). The family back...
...Podhoretz has been a brilliant controversialist, speaking from the left and, for the last 30-odd years, from the right. He has defended America against attacks from both left and right. He has always sought, by means of his writing and editing, to do what Whitman dreamed of doing with his poem - sort out the mess, make it coherent, whole...