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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

Today is Friday, January 16th, 20206.

I'm John Pothor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine. This would have been

my father, Norman's 96th birthday. He passed away last month. And as it happens, we have just closed

our February issue, which features a compendium of articles of tribute to my father, who was, of course, the

editor of commentary for 35 years and its most important contributor in about the 15 years after

his retirement in 1995 and wrote for the magazine for seven years before he became editor from 1953 to 1960.

The articles in the package, which should, I hope, be available to you later today,

include one by our own Seth Mandel, who I will introduce in a minute, on my father's life as a Jewish

thinker and as a participant in the Jewish community. Andy Ferguson on Norman Pothoritz

as pro-stylist Brett Stevens on Norman Pudhoritz as intellectual exemplar.

Mayor Solvedeach on what it was like to become a friend of my father's in my father's old age.

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