She was a longtime contributor of Commentary magazine, where her husband Norman Podhoretz was editor.
Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of the National Interest conservative foreign policy magazine, said Mrs. Decter was “a hybrid of intellectual-journalist” who helped influence thinking on the right, where proved a “supple and stylish writer.”“She was a cold warrior, very anti-communist and deeply affected by the Soviet Union’s treatment of the Jews,” Heilbrunn added. “Midge also saw herself engaged in a war against the liberal elites.
“This is an absurdity as every man knows but so far hasn’t mentioned,” she told The Washington Post in 1972. “Here is some poor schnook who spends eight hours a day at the office taking a lot of crap, and for some reason or other he allows his wife to describe him as a beast surrounded by power and wealth.”The women’s movement, she added, was a “paper tiger” that claimed to speak for the masses but whose roar was bigger than its bite.
Around that time, Mrs. Decter said the point of her writing was to draw attention to what she considered liberal encroachment into American life — even if it meant incurring fiercely personal attacks., speaking for a group that some liberals mockingly christened “the Commentary crowd.” “It’s just an attempt to defame your ideas by calling you names. Long ago, I decided to live without reference to what people called me since all those characterizations are intended to paralyze me, to shut me up.
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