“Frank Chodorov’s epiphany came when he picked up Henry George’s Progress and Poverty (1879). ‘A young man must have a cause,’ Chodorov would tell students in later years, and in reading and re-reading George, Chodorov ‘felt myself slipping into a cause.’”

Norman Podhoretz  The Longest Journey in the World  “That double life, Brooklyn and Manhattan, grit and glamour, loyalty and betrayal, nearly tore me apart. Yet it also saved me. It kept me honest, in a world where honesty was a rare currency, ambition was a sin, and the combination of the two gave me everything I have.”

these two quotes are in kind with the question he asks anyone who unsuspectingly inadvertently he usually provoked fall into conversation with him

                                         market check-out lines perennially understaffed are one of the best places to make ambush  waylay

theyre unaware theyre prey

What was your ambition

What did you want to become

in asking he always provided his ambition to chum the water

                                                                      make them rise

My ambition was to be happy  Ive achieved tha                          

 

    I dunno.

 

    I’d have to think about that.

Think

1427,  Monday,  15  12. 25

0955,  Wednesday,  17  12. 25

https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/remembering-frank-chodorov

https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/norman-podhoretz-1930-2025/