The modern journalist, so goes the rant that my colleague Ken Silverstein has perfected, is usually more than a bit too comfortable in his own skin. He frequently understands that the formula for ...

The ecological movement will get nowhere unless it recognizes the overlapping crises facing our society. Over 20,000 people attended the first Earth Day observance in Philadelphia, April, 1970. (AP ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone | By D. D. Guttenplan | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 224 pages, $24.95 When ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35.00. When only 33, D.D. Guttenplan took on a courageous endeavor that would overwhelm him for the next two decades: He set out to write a substantive biography ...

Isidor Feinstein began his career when he was, as MacPherson calls him, a “newspaperman in knee pants.” In an era when The New York Times, considered by Stone during his lifetime to be a right-wing ...

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He loved burlesque, ballroom dancing and “a good brawl.” So confessed modern America’s loneliest and best maverick investigative reporter, I.F. (“Izzy”) Stone. For several decades, especially during ...

I.F. Stone was known for his ‘uncanny ability to seize on the most inconvenient truths and for his vociferous opposition to the existing order.’ He was followed everywhere. His phone was ...

A documentary portrait of journalist I. F. Stone, focusing on his work as the publisher and sole writer of I.F. Stone’s Weekly. Directed by Jerry Bruck Jr., the film examines Stone’s reporting methods ...

Myra MacPherson on Journalist I.F. Stone — A discussion with Myra MacPherson focusing on her new work detailing the life and work of journalist I.F. Stone. MacPherson is the author of the book "All ...

The film will have its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. At its best, journalism should have an adversarial relationship with power, constantly questioning or ...

Cuban counter-revolutionaries will be "completely unable" to restore pre-revolutionary conditions, unless they resort to "the bloodiest war this hemisphere has ever seen," I. F. Stone, Washington news ...