"[[Allen Ginsberg|[Allen] Ginsberg]] turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yelled, "We'll get you through your children!" For countless American families, that turned out to be only too true."
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Roger Kimball The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000).
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Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz (/pɒdˈhɔːrɪts/; January 16, 1930 – December 16, 2025) was an American magazine editor, writer, and political commentator who described his opinions as being "paleo-neoconservative". He was a contributor to Commentary magazine, and served as the publication's editor-in-chief from 1960 to 1995.
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