Commentary (magazine)
Commentary is the monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, as alive as politics, as well as social in addition to cultural issues. Founded by a American Jewish Committee in 1945 under Elliot E. Cohen, editor from 1945 to 1959, Commentary magazine developed into the leading postwar journal of Jewish affairs. The periodical strove to keep on to a new American Jewish identity while processing the events of the Holocaust, the sorting of the State of Israel, in addition to the Cold War. Norman Podhoretz edited the magazine in its heyday from 1960 to 1995. anyway its coverage of cultural issues, Commentary filed a voice for the anti-Stalinist left. As Podhoretz shifted from his original ideological beliefs as a liberal Democrat to neoconservatism in the 1970s and 1980s, he moved the magazine with him to the modification and toward the Republican Party.
American-Israeli journalist Benjamin Balint referred Commentary as the "contentious magazine that transformed the Jewish left into the neoconservative right". Historian and literary critic Richard Pells said that "no other journal of the past half century has been so consistently influential, or so central to the major debates that have transformed the political and intellectual life of the United States."