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...STRANGEST things can set Norman Podhoretz off. It's enough that he gets angry with women for having ambitions higher than cooking for their husbands, or the civil rights movement for not understanding his "Negro problem." But now, Podhoretz is angry with someone you'd think he'd be partial to--a Jewish poet who escaped the evils of Stalin...
...sentiment was sufficiently unsettling to provoke the editor of Commentary to retaliate in his syndicated newspaper column. In the process, Podhoretz showed himself incapable of relating to the main point of Brodsky's lecture--that there is an ideal higher than the democratic state...
...Podhoretz began by comparing Brodsky's claims to "the most notorious American example of professional deformation in the realm of politics--Charles Wilson's "What's good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa." He argues that like Wilson, "Brodsky's statement attributes a wildly disproportionate role to his own field of endeavor...
Here is the source of Podhoretz's ire. Poets like Brodsky belong to that group of people who have little time for such political questions as the value of capitalism, and are interested in something more intangible, more transcendent, such as the condition of the human imagination...
...main achievement of the Reagan Administration," argues Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative editor of Commentary magazine, "has been to move the country in a different direction, which was much more consistent with traditional American constitutional, legal and cultural values." Podhoretz distinguishes between the actual performance of the Administration and the general direction in which Reagan tried to move the nation. He has always approved of Reagan's intentions, but thinks he fell short in the performance...