Midge Decter

Midge Rosenthal Decter (b. 1927) is an American neoconservative journalist and author.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Midge Rosenthal Decter was born on July 25, 1927 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.^[1] She attended the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York University.^[1]

She was Assistant Editor at Midstream, then the secretary to the then-editor of Commentary, Robert Warshow. ^[2] Later she was the executive editor of Harper's under Willie Morris.^[2] She then working in publishing as an editor at Basic Books and Legacy Books.^[2] Her writing has been published in Commentary, First Things, The Atlantic, the National Review, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and the American Spectator.^[2][3][5]

Together with Donald Rumsfeld, Decter is the former co-chair of the Committee for the Free World and one of the original drivers of the neoconservative movement with her spouse, Norman Podhoretz.^[3] She is also a founder of the Independent Women's Forum, and was founding treasurer for the Northcote Parkinson Fund, founded and chaired by John Train. She is a member of the board of trustees for the Heritage Foundation.^[1][4] She is also a Board member of the Center for Security Policy and the Clare Boothe Luce Fund.^[3] She is also a member of The Philadelphia Society.^[2] She is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Religion and Public Life.^[2] She is one of the signatories to Statement of Principles for the Project for the New American Century.^[6]

She is the mother of the conservative syndicated columnist John Podhoretz, the youngest of her four children, and the second by Norman Podhoretz. She is also the mother, by her first marriage, of Rachel Decter (born 1951, who married Elliott Abrams in 1980, and Naomi (born 1952).

Publications

• Losing the First Battle, Winning the War
• The Liberated Woman and Other Americans (1970)
• The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation (1972)
• Liberal Parents, Radical Children (1975)
• Always Right: Selected Writings of Midge Decter
• Rumsfeld : A Personal Portrait (2003)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} NNDB webpage
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} The Philadelphia Society webpage
3. ^ ^{a b c d} http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/20922/Midge_Decter/index.aspx HarperCollins webpage]
4. ^ ^{a b} Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees
5. ^ American Spectator webpage
6. ^ New American Century Statement of Principles

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Name	Decter, Midge
Alternative names	Rosenthal, Midge
Short description	Neoconservative American writer and journalist
Date of birth	July 25, 1927
Place of birth	St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death