John Podhoretz

‘You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” These immortal words from William Blake’s 1711 prose poem “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” offer a rueful perspective on the turn in Donald Trump’s fortunes in 2026. It appears his administration did “what is more than enough” in implementing its policies related to illegal aliens inside the United States and, in so doing, turned an unalloyed political and policy triumph into a possible defeat.

For weeks, on our podcast, I have wondered: Did Donald Trump find himself stumbling uncomfortably into a new military conflict with Iran due to unfolding events inside the Islamic Republic in late December? This would account for the way his regime-change rhetoric in early January suddenly morphed into a “let’s make a deal but this time a good deal”

The war against Adolf Hitler was unnecessary. Not because Hitler posed no threat, as Tucker Carlson and his Renfield-like incel army of cockroach-consuming camp followers would have you believe. It

A good-looking young Muslim man who came to prominence playing video games while people watch him do so on a streaming service has chosen of late to speak about Jews.

The new biopic about Michael Jackson offers snapshots of his life from ages 8 to 24. It doesn't have a plot, really, just a timeline in which he gradually moves toward separating himself from his abusive father. With the exception of his early plastic surgeries, which he ascribes to a desire to make his face more symmetrical, there's nothing remotely questionable about the behavior of the kid we see in Michael . He's gentle and childlike and in love with animals and toys and Peter Pan. We are meant to understand all this as a form of psychological protection from the soul-crushing violence and emotional blackmail committed against him by his father Joseph (played as an unadulterated demon in human form by the brilliant Colman Domingo).

The novel called The Devil Wears Prada was a sensation upon its release in 2003 because it told the truth about the abusive atmosphere at the media organization that was then the most powerful company in magazine journalism, and about the disgusting behavior of the ice-cold monster who sat atop the greasy pole of fashion publishing. She bears another name in the book—Miranda Priestly—but there was literally no one in the world of writing who had any doubt the model for the monster was Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue

When a Pew poll in 2013 of American Jewish views on religion and politics and Israel showed stark divisions, with only 38 percent saying they believed Israel was making a

For a decade, we’ve been awash in analogies between America in the Age of Trump and Germany in the two decades following World War I. The central feature of these

The smashing new film Tuner —which you must go see if you like movies at all—has similarities to so many other things made in the past decade that it might seem derivative. A plot that involves purloining objects from ultra-wealthy people who will never even know they've been robbed evokes the Apple TV series Your Friends & Neighbors . A character with a profound hearing problem that makes him an ideal participant in a crime ring brings back memories of the terrific 2017 film Baby Driver . A hyper-intense student musician's approaching concert is filmed in a manner more akin to a horror movie than a character study, which gives Tuner a haunting and jangly quality akin to Whiplash

The smashing new film Tuner—which you must go see if you like movies at all—has similarities to so many other things made in the past decade that it might seem derivative. A plot that involves purloining objects from ultra-wealthy people who will never even know they’ve been robbed evokes the Apple TV series Your Friends & Neighbors. A character with a profound hearing problem that makes him an ideal participant in a crime ring brings back memories of the terrific 2017 film Baby Driver. A hyper-intense student musician’s approaching concert is filmed in a manner more akin to a horror movie than a character study, which gives Tuner a haunting and jangly quality akin to Whiplash.