Whatever else you could say about Commentary Magazine in the old days under Norman Podhoretz and Neal Kozodoy, it had intellectual rigor. Both editors had literary chops. Podhoretz, it goes without saying– he has a first-rate mind (in the service of poor judgment, apparently unbalanced by black boys on the streets of Brooklyn when he was a kid). Kozodoy helped produce a historical classic, Jacob Katz's Out of the Ghetto, among other books.
Now Commentary is edited by men from a journalistic/hasbara background: John Podhoretz, whose gadfly reputation is captured by his internet handle, Jpod, and Jonathan Tobin, a journalist who used to edit the Jewish Exponent. The latest Commentary has a piece by Jonathan Gurwitz, of the San Antonio Express-News, about Christian Zionists. I got to the second paragraph and this phrase: "[Pastor John Hagee's] call went out to some 100,000 leaders across America, whom CUFI says helped spread the message to millions more."
The correct relative pronoun is "who." the leaders who helped spread the message. It's a pet peeve: writers who use whom when who is correct. This would never have gotten thru in the old days…
