Commentary (magazine)

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Commentary

Commentary #1, cover dated March 2006
Editor Neal Kozodoy
Categories
Frequency 11 monthly; combined July-August issue
Circulation 27,000 / month

Publisher

 Commentary Inc.
First Issue 1945
Country New York, United States
Language English
Website CommentaryMagazine.com
ISSN 0010-2601

Contents

[edit] History

Commentary, a monthly magazine founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945, bills itself as "America's premier monthly magazine of opinion." It covers politics, international affairs, societal issues, and Judaism. Initially, its articles and stories were from a secular American Jewish perspective. Presently, it is considered to be one of the primary homes of neoconservatism.[1][2]

Its founder and original editor was Elliot E. Cohen. Cohen was succeeded after his death in 1959 by Norman Podhoretz, who served as editor-in-chief until 1995 and currently serves as the magazine's editor-at-large.

The magazine is no longer affiliated with the American Jewish Committee. In 2007, Commentary, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit enterprise, became the magazine's publisher.

Also in January 2007, Commentary launched its first blog, Contentions.

[edit] Trivia

In the 1977 Woody Allen movie, Annie Hall, Allen (as character Alvy Singer) makes a pun by saying that Dissent and Commentary should join together to make dysentery. In Bananas, as an old lady is threatened on a subway car, Woody Allen hides his face by holding up an issue of Commentary. This image is featured at the New York City Transit Museum in Brooklyn Heights. In Woody Allen's film Crime & Misdemeanors, an issue of Commentary lays on a character's bedside table.

Al Pacino once worked at Commentary, as did Susan Sontag.

[edit] Current Staff

  • Editor, Neal Kozodoy
  • Senior Editor, Gabriel Schoenfeld
  • Managing Editor, Gary Rosen
  • Assistant Editor, David Billet
  • Editor-at-Large, Norman Podhoretz
  • Business Director, Sarah M. Stern
  • Business Associate, Ilya Leyzerzon
  • Sales Representative, Del Fidanque
  • Production Manager, Marietta M. Gat
  • Online Editor, Sam Munson
  • Online Manager, Davi Bernstein

[edit] Notable Contributors

[edit] Related Publications

[edit] External links

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