“Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.”

American journalist and conservative political commentator, born 1961

John Mordecai Podhoretz is an American journalist and conservative political commentator. Born in 1961, he has been editor of Commentary since 2009, following a career in newspaper and magazine editing, speechwriting, and political commentary. He previously ran the editorial page of the New York Post and served as deputy editor of The Weekly Standard. Podhoretz also worked as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan and in the George H. W. Bush administration, and he has written several books on politics.