[7][8][6] She was the youngest of three daughters of Rose (née Calmenson) and Harry Rosenthal, a sporting goods merchant.
[8][13] Decter was assistant editor at Midstream, before working as secretary to the then-editor of Commentary, Robert Warshow.
[1] Her writing has been published in Commentary, First Things, The Atlantic, National Review, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and The American Spectator.
[1][2][14] Together with Donald Rumsfeld, Decter was the co-chair of the Committee for the Free World, an anti-communist organization.
[3] She was also a board member of the Center for Security Policy and the Clare Boothe Luce Fund.
[15] Decter was arguably the leading antifeminist in the United States prior to Phyllis Schlafly's rise to prominence.
[18] In 2008, Midge Decter received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.