John Podhoretz

John Podhoretz

The Archive

Rather than protecting Jews, we're being told to hide -- again

Lawyer Gerard Filitti holds a press conference announcing that Jewish students at Cooper Union who were hiding in a library during a pro-Palestine protest will file a lawsuit against the...

Joe Biden after tea-time is like Henry Fonda in 'On Golden Pond'

Joe Biden after 4 p.m. looks like a movie star.

NYC Council radicals join wave of pols doing activism—not their jobs

A meeting of New York City's Rent Guidelines Board was interrupted by a protest that included five elected members of the City Council.

Biden insults all Americans in using race hustler Al Sharpton to get re-elected

Aside from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Al Sharpton is the only recognizable figure from outside the Biden administration.

Biden's base: Why he won't end the COVID 'emergency' for months

The COVID emergency is over — three months from now! God made the universe in six days. It will take President Joe Biden about 240 days.

US, Ukraine leaders trade banners to cap Zelensky's symbolic DC visit

At the climax of his speech, he handed the flag to Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris, who were in their respective positions as speaker of the House and president of...

Nancy Pelosi's legacy -- spending a colossal amount of money

Pelosi knows better than anyone that being the minority leader is no fun, and so she has stepped down to let a “new generation” of Democrats take charge — and...

Here's how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms

What Tuesday night’s midterm election results suggest is that former President Donald Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history.

Biden’s riot act falls flat

Biden didn’t appeal passionately to the better angels of our nature because there was no energy behind his words.

Lee Zeldin shows he understands crime crisis Hochul dismisses

Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin debated Gov. Kathy Hochul as though his life — and the lives of all New Yorkers — depended on it.

John Fetterman debate was painful and shameful — he is physically incapable of being a senator

It’s an act of personal malpractice on the part of those who encouraged him to continue because this singularly upsetting performance is not the way any person on this earth...

Dems' Jan. 6 hearing theater bares evil at the heart of the Capitol riot

The Jan. 6 hearings remind us of the evil of that day and a very simple fact that cannot be denied: Donald Trump wanted to unleash hell, and then he...

Biden has delusions of grandeur — not to mention delusions

President Biden's interview with Jake Tapper on CNN proved that he is no wiser or even all that better-informed than any garden-variety pundit.

Please, in 2024 could we elect a president who isn’t either out to lunch or addicted to chaos

Two recently published blockbuster accounts of Trump’s presidency talked about why people should dread a second Trump term without taking into account the role of the media. 

Rare lucid and coherent moment for Biden on '60 Minutes'

Is Biden’s daily “energy level and mental acuity” such that he can only summon up the focus and the resources to get through one of these conversations every 223 days or so?

Hypocrite Biden's speech was about one thing only -- trying to bait Trump

Biden wants Trump angry, and loud, and silencing every other voice but his own.

Like Churchill in the '50s, Biden is just too old to lead his nation

This week, a poll of New Hampshireans finds Biden trailing his own Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, among Democrats asked whom they would prefer to vote for in 2024. Mayor Pete...

Dems’ protest photo-op a pathetic parody

Rep. Carolyn Maloney was one of 17 Democratic members of Congress who showed up at the court with the clear intent of getting busted.

In lesson for Biden, Zelensky shows what true leadership looks like

Volodymyr Zelensky called on Joe Biden to be “the leader of the world” when he spoke before Congress, but it’s clear that for the moment Zelensky is the leader of...

According to Joe Biden, everything is going great

President Joe Biden spent a great deal of his State of the Union address speaking about the events in Ukraine.