Norman Podhoretz's extraordinary new book — "Why Are Jews Liberals?" — is being published today. The book is an important event in American Jewish intellectual history, for reasons I have tried to describe in "Challenging the Torah of Liberalism" in today's American Thinker.
Commentary has a very valuable symposium on the book in its September issue. (Update: Tablet Magazine has published its own symposium, with Ruth R. Wise, Morris Dickstein, Jonah Goldberg, Todd Gitlin, and Ron Radosh. Seth Lipsky reviews the book in "The Long Goodbye").
Those in the Los Angeles area will have a chance to hear Podhoretz speak on his book on Monday, September 14, at the Skirball Cultural Center, at 7 p.m. The invitation is set forth below.
The event will be a sell-out, so those who want to attend should purchase their tickets today. Call 818-704-0523 or email info@cjhsla.org: