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{{Short description|American journalist and author (
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{{Infobox person
| name = Midge Decter
| birth_name = Midge Rosenthal
| birth_date = {{birth date |1927|7|25}}
| birth_place = [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age |2022|5|9|1927|7|25}}
| death_place
| spouse = {{plainlist|
| spouse = [[Moshe Decter]] (divorced)<br />{{marriage|[[Norman Podhoretz]]|1956}}▼
* {{marriage|[[Moshe Decter]]|1948|1954|end=divorced}}
| children = [[Rachel Abrams]]<br />[[Ruthie Blum]]<br />[[John Podhoretz]]▼
| occupation = Journalist, author, writer▼
}}
'''Midge Rosenthal Decter''' (July 25, 1927 – May 9, 2022) was an American journalist and author.<ref name="philadelphia">{{cite web|url=http://phillysoc.org/midge-decter/|title=Midge Decter|website=The Philadelphia Society|accessdate=April 12, 2018}}</ref><ref name="harper">{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/20922/Midge_Decter/index.aspx|title=Midge Decter|website=HarperCollins US|accessdate=April 12, 2018}}</ref><ref name="heritage">[http://www.heritage.org/About/Departments/trustees.cfm Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304025805/http://www.heritage.org/About/Departments/trustees.cfm |date=March 4, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/books/no-u-turns.html|title=No U-Turns|first=Dorothy|last=Gallagher|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 16, 2001|publisher=|accessdate=April 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078621,00.html|title=Converts Podhoretz & Decter Didn't Get a Job from Reagan, but Don't Knock a Blurb|publisher=|accessdate=April 12, 2018}}</ref> Originally a liberal, she was one of the pioneers of the [[neoconservative]] movement in the 1970s and 1980s.▼
▲| occupation = Journalist, author, writer
}}
▲'''Midge
==Early life==
Decter was born in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], on July 25, 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/decter-midge|title=The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: Midge Decter|first1=Kirsten |last1=Fermaglich |website= [[Jewish Women's Archive]] |date=
==Career==
Decter was assistant editor at ''[[Midstream (magazine)|Midstream]]'', before working as secretary to the then-editor of ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'', [[Robert Warshow]].<ref name="philadelphia"/> Later she was the executive editor of ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' under [[Willie Morris]].<ref name="philadelphia"/> She then began working in publishing as an editor at [[Basic Books]] and [[Legacy Books]].<ref name="philadelphia"/> Her writing has been published in ''Commentary'', ''[[First Things]]'', ''[[The Atlantic]]'', ''[[National Review]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', and ''[[The American Spectator]]''.<ref name="philadelphia"/><ref name="harper"/><ref>[http://spectator.org/people/midge-decter/all American Spectator webpage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127150751/http://spectator.org/people/midge-decter/all |date=November 27, 2011 }}</ref>
Together with [[Donald Rumsfeld]], Decter was the co-chair of the [[Committee for the Free World]],
Decter was arguably the leading antifeminist in the United States prior to Phyllis Schlafly's rise to prominence.<ref name=":0" /> She was a critic of the women's liberation movement.<ref name=":0" /> She defended "traditional" gender roles and "family values."<ref name=":0" /> She was a critic of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|gay rights]] movement.<ref name=":0" /> Following a tongue-in-cheek remark by [[Russell Kirk]], the Society's founder, about the prevalence of Jewish intellectuals in the neoconservative movement, Decter labelled Kirk an [[Antisemitism|anti-Semite]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181205203135/https://www.weeklystandard.com/james-seaton/conservative-minder In 2008, Midge Decter received the [[Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom]] from the [[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/about/trmedalrecipients.php |title=Recipients of the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom |website=Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation |accessdate=September 4, 2012 ==Personal life==
Decter married her first husband, [[Moshe Decter]], in 1948.<ref name=AP/>
Decter lived most of her adult life in Manhattan.<ref name=":0" /> She died on May 9, 2022, at her home in [[Manhattan]].
==Publications==
{{external media| float = right| width=390px |video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?166458-1/an-wifes-tale ''Booknotes'' interview with Decter on ''An Old Wife's Tale'', October 7, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?173637-1/always-right-selected-writings Presentation by Decter on ''Always Right'', November 1, 2002], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?173637-1/always-right-selected-writings Presentation by Decter on ''Rumsfeld'', October 14, 2003], [[C-SPAN]]| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?181497-2/rumsfeld-personal-portrait ''Washington Journal'' interview with Decter on ''Rumsfeld'', April 23, 2004], [[C-SPAN]]}}
* ''Losing the First Battle, Winning the War''<ref>{{cite book|title=Losing the First Battle, Winning the War|url=https://books.google.
* ''The Liberated Woman and Other Americans'' (1970)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Liberated Woman and Other Americans|url=https://books.google.
* ''The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation'' (1972) {{ISBN|
* ''Liberal Parents, Radical Children'' (1975) {{ISBN|
* ''An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War'' (2001) {{ISBN|
* ''Always Right: Selected Writings of Midge Decter'' (2002) {{ISBN|
* ''Rumsfeld : A Personal Portrait'' (2003) {{ISBN|
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