joseph heller wrote a spiteful novel about mr. podhoretz. allen ginsberg threatened to turn his children into beatniks. having once read a piece by mr. podhoretz's son, john, i can tell you that the threat was empty. gore but all called mr. podhoretz an american fifth columnist for israel. mr. podhoretz has required most of his enemies, or ask friends, by way of long and starving political metamorphosis. i haven't checked the bios of everybody who is speaking at the book fair, but i'm fairly certain that the only speaker to have both written for the stalinist journal partisan review, and one of presidential medal of freedom form george w. bush is the one in this room. mr. podhoretz's resumes is sprinkled liberally, if i make use that word, with assembly seeming contradictions. contradictions. he edited the first new left journal, commentary, deadbolt of the democratic party when it nominated the new left's first political water carrier, george mcgovern, for the presidency. he's an intellectual who thinks that intellectuals have ruined the wo