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Although many or even most of the editors and writers had been socialists, Trotskyites or Stalinists in the past, that was no longer tolerated. ''Commentary'' articles were anti-Communist--but also anti-McCarthyite; it identified and attacked any perceived weakness among liberals on cold war issues, giving full backing to President [[Harry Truman]]'s new [[Cold War]] policies such as the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[Marshall Plan]], and [[NATO]]. The soft-on-Communism position of the [[CIO]] and [[Henry Wallace]] came under steady attack.
Although many or even most of the editors and writers had been socialists, Trotskyites or Stalinists in the past, that was no longer tolerated. ''Commentary'' articles were anti-Communist--but also anti-McCarthyite; it identified and attacked any perceived weakness among liberals on cold war issues, giving full backing to President [[Harry Truman]]'s new [[Cold War]] policies such as the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[Marshall Plan]], and [[NATO]]. The soft-on-Communism position of the [[CIO]] and [[Henry Wallace]] came under steady attack.
Liberals who vehemently hated [[Joe McCarthy]] were annoyed when Irving Kristol wrote at the height of the controversy,
:"there is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: he, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."
==Podhoretz as editor, 1960-1995==
In the late 1950s the magazine sagged, as Cohen suffered from mental illness. After he committed suicide Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930) took over in 1960, running the magazine with an iron hand until his retirement in 1995. Podhoretz, a brilliant pugnacious, and combative editor, was a protégé of [[Lionel Trilling]]. He reduced the space given to Jewish issues and, most importantly, moved ''Commentary'''s ideology sharply left. It became a mainstay of the Washington liberal elite in the heyday of Presidents [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].
==Current Staff==
==Current Staff==