NEW YORK — Norman Podhoretz, the boastful, hard-line editor and author whose books, essays and stewardship of Commentary magazine marked a political and deeply personal break from the left and made him a leader of the neo-conservative movement, has died. He was 95. Podhoretz died “peacefully and without pain” Tuesday night, his son John Podhoretz confirmed in a statement on Commentary’s website. His cause of death was not immediately released. “He was a man of great wit and a man of deep wisdom and he lived an astonishing and uniquely American life,” John Podhoretz said. Norman Podhoretz was among the...