Commentary (magazine)
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Commentary is an American monthly magazine covering politics, international relations, Judaism, and social, cultural, and literary issues.
Popular culture
Commentary has been referred to in several Woody Allen films. In Annie Hall (1977), Allen (as character Alvy Singer) makes a pun by saying that he heard that Dissent and Commentary had merged to form "Dysentery." In Bananas (1971), as an old lady is threatened on a subway car, Allen hides his face by holding up an issue of Commentary. This image is featured at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn Heights. In Crimes and Misdemeanors, an issue of Commentary lies on a character's bedside table.
In his sitcom Anything But Love, stand-up comedian Richard Lewis was often shown holding or reading a copy of Commentary.
Notable contributors
- S.Y. Agnon
- Elliott Abrams
- Hannah Arendt
- Robert Alter
- Paul Auster
- James Baldwin
- Daniel Bell
- Saul Bellow
- William Bennett
- David Berger
- Peter Ludwig Berger
- Allan Bloom
- Harold Bloom
- Max Boot
- Robert Bork
- Peter Brimelow
- David Brooks
- William Buckley
- Mona Charen
- Linda Chavez
- Eliot A. Cohen
- Seth Cropsey
- David G. Dalin
- Lucy Dawidowicz
- Midge Decter
- Alan Dershowitz
- Dinesh D'Souza
- Joseph Epstein
- Douglas J. Feith
- Leslie Fiedler
- David Frum
- Francis Fukuyama
- Frank Gaffney
- Sir Martin Gilbert
- Nathan Glazer
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- Allegra Goodman
- Paul Goodman
- Clement Greenberg
- Boris Gulko
- Ernest van den Haag
- Hillel Halkin
- Oscar Handlin
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Michael Harrington
- Jeffrey Hart
- Joseph Heller
- Richard Herrnstein
- Arthur Hertzberg
- Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Milton Himmelfarb
- Richard Hofstadter
- Sidney Hook
- David Horowitz
- Irving Howe
- H. Stuart Hughes
- Samuel Huntington
- Carol Iannone
- Tamar Jacoby
- Josef Joffe
- Daniel Johnson
- Paul Johnson
- Donald Kagan
- Frederick Kagan
- Robert Kagan
- Leon Kass
- Jacob Katz
- Alfred Kazin
- Alan Keyes
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Martin Kramer
- Charles Krauthammer
- Irving Kristol
- William Kristol
- Walter Laqueur
- Christopher Lasch
- F. R. Leavis
- Michael Ledeen
- Michael Levin
- Bernard Lewis
- Guenter Lewy
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- John Lukacs
- Dwight MacDonald
- Heather MacDonald
- Norman Mailer
- Bernard Malamud
- Thomas Mann
- Leo Marx
- Andrew C. McCarthy
- Scott McConnell
- Hans J. Morgenthau
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Joshua Muravchik
- Charles Murray
- Richard John Neuhaus
- Jacob Neusner
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Robert Nisbet
- Michael Novak
- Michael B. Oren
- George Orwell
- John O'Sullivan
- Amos Oz
- Cynthia Ozick
- Martin Peretz
- Richard Perle
- Joan Peters
- William Pfaff
- Daniel Pipes
- Richard Pipes
- Steven Plaut
- John Podhoretz
- Norman Podhoretz
- Noah Pollak
- Norman Ravitch
- Mordecai Richler
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Peter W. Rodman
- Henry Roth
- Philip Roth
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
- Sam Schulman
- Delmore Schwartz
- Stephen Schwartz
- Daniel Seligman
- Nathan Sharansky
- Martin Sieff
- Fred Siegel
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Susan Sontag
- Thomas Sowell
- Bret Stephens
- Leo Strauss
- George Szamuely
- Philip Taft
- Amir Taheri
- Terry Teachout
- Dorothy Thompson
- Nathan Thrall
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Lionel Trilling
- Robert C. Tucker
- Robert W. Tucker
- Leopold Tyrmand
- David Twersky
- Ron Unz
- John Updike
- Ben J. Wattenberg
- George Weigel
- Elie Wiesel
- James Q. Wilson
- Robert S. Wistrich
- A. B. Yehoshua
- Karl Zinsmeister