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from: Norman Podhoretz

Censure or No Censure?

Posted Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1999, at 2:22 PM ET

Now you're throwing me. But I refuse to stay thrown, if only because I'm really enjoying the rare experience of differing with you politically after more than 42 years of marriage. In all seriousness, though, I do differ here, and for the same reason I part company with you on whether convicting Clinton would be better for the country than letting him finish his term. It's a choice between two evils, and what I see as the lesser, you see as the greater.

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from: Norman Podhoretz

Censure or No Censure?

Posted Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1999, at 2:22 PM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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