Commentary Magazine ✓

@Commentary · New York, NY · joined 06 Jan 2009

A pivotal voice in American intellectual life since 1945.

45 771Followers

543Following

57 982Posts total

6.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views957this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.09%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.07%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	957	2 751	0.35×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.09%	9.00%	0.23×
Engagement rate	1.07%	1.65%	0.65×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.9K17 Aug

8702 Sep

809

957

1.1K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.07%17 Aug

0.57%2 Sep

1.48%

0.73%

1.62%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes74.0%57 in total

Reposts13.0%10 in total

Replies3.9%3 in total

Quotes2.6%2 in total

Bookmarks6.5%5 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The central argument of the book is as follows: Immediately after the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel, which he describes inadequately and laconically, “Israel declared its intention and then engaged in an attempt to destroy the Palestinian people living in Gaza, in whole or in 1.1K views · 12 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Much of her industry sided against Israel in its defensive war against Hamas and many have now simply made themselves opponents of Israel’s existence. The wider arts world has done the same, abandoning artistic freedom and free speech for a crackdown on Hamas’s vocal critics. 957 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 LISTEN: Seth Moulton got wiped out by Ed Markey in last night’s Democratic primary for Senate in Massachusetts. We discuss how Moulton, and other Democrats, have struggled to seem authentic amid their party’s lurch to the left. And what does the DSA mean by “working class”? 809 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Stalin is supposed to have observed that one death is a tragedy but a million is a statistic. The artistic problem facing Grossman was the same that confronted Solzhenitsyn in his descriptions of the Gulag: how to reveal the horror behind the numbers. https://t.co/g4rnmnYLv3 870 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 The September issue of Commentary is now available. This issue covers the Global War on Terror, performative masculinity, Saudi Arabia at a crossroads, the rise of the next generation of progressive political operatives, and more. With contributions from @todlindberg, https://t 2.9K views · 24 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 17 Aug 2026