# Commentary Magazine Commentary Magazine is a monthly journal of opinion that has been one of the most influential intellectual publications in the American conservative movement since the mid-20th century. Originally a liberal anti-communist publication, it shifted rightward under editor Norman Podhoretz in the 1970s and became a flagship of [[Neoconservatism]]. Commentary played a central role in the intellectual infrastructure of [[Cold War]] hawkishness and the Reagan-era [[Republican Party]], alongside publications like [[National Review]]. Its writers helped develop the foreign policy arguments for American interventionism and the domestic case against Great Society liberalism. The magazine remains an important venue for neoconservative thought on foreign policy, culture, and the future of the conservative intellectual tradition.